djos wrote:axle wrote:
As for stupid comments about wanting RB penalised for crashing (and thus ruining your particular driving gods lap), that is just retarded! Smashing into the wall in a high speed section is hardly going to be a good thing for RB as the next time he drives his rebuilt car will be on the formation lap and if anything is wrong with it he's screwed. He's punished himself enough to want more is unsporting when he had an ACCIDENT.
Now hang on just a second, it's all about he other drivers having their laps ruined, not RB (his crash, his problem!)!
In V8 SuperCars if you --- up and red flag the qualifying session in Q3 it's to the back of the section for you and if there is say 10mins left your out even if your car is undamaged and you just beeched it in a sand trap. imo that's entirely justified.
Maybe the V8 series has to deal with more unscrupulous drivers
If F1, other drivers know that anything can happen - torrential rain, crashes etc... they should have done what Lewis did, an excellent lap earlier in Q1/Q2 so that he saved a set of tyres. Then like him they would have had 2 sets of new SSofts ready and wouldn't have to do a banker on used ones. Lewis used new tyres to ram home his advantage in the first run in Q3.
They assumed, wrongly, that everything would go perfectly...as soon as you assume in F1 you're going to lose. Sh1t happens, especially on street circuits with monster bumps. I doubt you'd be crying so much if Vettel or Webber had binned it instead of Rubens.
If you start penalising drivers further you'll find they don't try as hard for fear of getting hit by the stewards. You have to let them fight or there is no point.
... even if everyone was just putting in a safe lap Lou was still 3 tenths faster, and even if the RBR's were faster in the 3rd sector, Lewis was purple all day long in sectors 1 & 2, and Kovi was pretty damn fast all day too, but he had a terrible first Q3 lap.
