Poll: United States Grand Prix 2017, Austin - Race 17/20

Rate the 2017 USA Grand Prix out of ten

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FIA's website gone down due to the amount of people looking for the rules with track limits. That time penalty cost me over 30pts on my predictor. Should Kimi have left more space going into that corner?
 
Steeps said:
FIA's website gone down due to the amount of people looking for the rules with track limits. That time penalty cost me over 30pts on my predictor. Should Kimi have left more space going into that corner?
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No. Kimi was in front and could choose wherever he wanted to put the car.
Verstappen just decided that he didn't want to use the track and went inside of the apex.
 
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Flibster said:
I spotted that,looks like a bird of prey tbh, but never seen one leave a shadow that defined.
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Yeah exactly. I thought, for the shadow to be that big, it would have to be quite high up. But for the shadow to be that defined, it would have to be pretty close to the floor.

So my conclusion was - jet sized eagle or some weird American bald eagle graphic flying around the track (we had the weird patriotic intros so anything is possible now).
 
So Red Bull and Verstappen are blaming one steward in particular, Garry Connelly for the penalty.
Verstappen cut the corner by over half a meter, when there was easily sufficient space to take the corner with at least one wheel on the track.

Sorry Horner... You are just a shining little wit when things aren't going your way.
 
BuffetSlayer said:
Going back to track limits - just armco the lot. Monaco the **** out of it !! :p
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All those bits of run off and tarmac were put in for safety reasons, gravel traps having a tendency to flip the car and throw stones all over the track. Plus it allows drivers to rejoin a track rather than go out and have the race yellow flagged while they retrieve the car. The only way the stewards have left to stop the drivers taking the mickey is to punish them when they break the rules.
 
timmeh said:
But he didn't get a "lasting advantage" which is what the stewards penalized Max for. I'm sure if Bottas had kept the position then he'd have been told to give it up or been handed a 5sec penalty
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It may not have been lasting advantage but it did accelerate off the track, for me its the lack of consistency and also they need to remove some of these run offs as clearly they are too easy to abuse.

We need Eduardo Freitas in charge from the WEC at least they are mostly consistent.
 
RSR said:
It may not have been lasting advantage but it did accelerate off the track, for me its the lack of consistency and also they need to remove some of these run offs as clearly they are too easy to abuse.

We need Eduardo Freitas in charge from the WEC at least they are mostly consistent.
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Penalising only the driver who gained an advantage is pretty consistent if you ask me.
 
Steampunk said:
All those bits of run off and tarmac were put in for safety reasons, gravel traps having a tendency to flip the car and throw stones all over the track. Plus it allows drivers to rejoin a track rather than go out and have the race yellow flagged while they retrieve the car. The only way the stewards have left to stop the drivers taking the mickey is to punish them when they break the rules.
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Yeah I know - was being tongue in cheek. Do you feel the enforcement is consistent?
 
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