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Originally Posted by RichardInCA
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Originally Posted by HeelToeShift
Really weird. Not only gets half the penalty he should have last weekend and the same thing happens this weekend and they give Max the full penalty? How much money was handed over during the appeal by McLaren?? Let’s also take a look at the nationalities of the stewards this week. There should never be any nationalistic bias and it’s clear there is.
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I’m not sure it’s that weird….when one thinks about the stuff outside of the rule books. Seems like the stewards didn’t want to hand Lando the podium position last week as the result of a questionable pass so they wrapped his knuckles with 5 seconds, kinda thought well Max wasn’t an angel but if we don’t give Lando a 10 sec penalty for track limits then it sorta means we can sleep at night and we’ll write something both-sides-y in the post race memo.
Fast forward to Mexico City, it’s lap 1 - plenty of time for the race to play out and iron out the impacts of a stewards decision early in the race (theoretically) BUT if they rinse/repeated the COTA decision then everyone will be up in arms about the “FIA always favors Max”. My guess is that they wanted to send a louder message than they did in the stewards post-race note from COTA. Either way, the two consecutive corner stuff from Max was kinda blatant - making it very easy for the stewards to come down hard this time. It’s never really been about consistency and precedent setting with FIA, or at least that’s how it appears to me. |
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Originally Posted by minn19
Damn it, I missed a great race! Was just watching highlights and of course the latest Max and Lando scrap. Will have to wait for Artemis to post the official FIA release to see their reasoning.
I haven’t seen a great slow mo version of it, but from what I did see it looked like Lando was for sure ahead the first corner. Plus Max hit Lando so wonder if that is why the first ten second penalty.
Second one Max is definitely ahead, so wondering what the second ten was for based on last weeks rulings. They said for going off track and gaining an advantage over RBR radio. Maybe they didn’t think he would’ve been in position to make the second pass (in a dangerous spot with the wall right there) if he hadn’t left the track in the first corner incident.
I’m sure they are trying to send a message to calm down after a second week of this before there is a bad accident and someone is potentially injured. But, will be very interesting to read the stewards reports.
Very happy for Carlos and Ferrari!
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Austin F1 race of last week - race incident between British driver Norris (with a Belgian mother) and Belgian/Dutch driver Verstappen. The 4-stewards panel featured the British former race driver Derek Warwick and the Belgian lawyer (practicing in Luxembourg) Loïc Bacquelaine.
Verdict: a 5 second time penalty for Norris:
Mexico F1 race of this week - race incidents between British driver (with a Belgian mother) Norris and Belgian/Dutch driver Verstappen. The 4-stewards panel featured the British former race driver Johnny Herbert and the Belgian lawyer (practicing in Luxembourg) Loïc Bacquelaine.
Verdict: 2 × a 10 second time penalty for Verstappen:
