I got this in the Mclaren newsletter. I guess they jumped the gun!
Vettel incidence was something that happened for the first time. May be that's the reason the stewards decided to just hand him a reprimand or warning. What McLaren did yesterday had happened in 2010 and by them only. No one has ever repeated something like this in qualifying. May be just to prove their point they had to such a bold and ruthless step.myurr wrote: It just seems that the scale of the penalty was completely out of whack even if you believe a penalty was required despite the precedent set by the Vettel incident.
McLaren's first breach of this rule was before the rule existed, it was brought in as clarification after Canada 2010 to prevent it becoming routine. One mistake two years later isn't routine...banibhusan wrote:Vettel incidence was something that happened for the first time. May be that's the reason the stewards decided to just hand him a reprimand or warning. What McLaren did yesterday had happened in 2010 and by them only. No one has ever repeated something like this in qualifying. May be just to prove their point they had to such a bold and ruthless step.myurr wrote: It just seems that the scale of the penalty was completely out of whack even if you believe a penalty was required despite the precedent set by the Vettel incident.
Rain is still a possibility, but no one really knows.Javert wrote:They can change the setup to a purely race oriented one
Shame that rain is not expected ... It would have been funny
A fully dialed in car can be one to two seconds a lap faster than one struggling with the conditions, so to me that is more important than anything else.marcush. wrote:they can change whatever -the tyres have still done too many laps already and that is compromising the potential elapsed time in the race.He has to make up something like 10 seconds returning from lap 1 .