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Nico Rosberg has been hit with a 10-second penalty after the stewards decided in a lengthy meeting that the driver in question received radio messages from his team that were in breach of F1's new regulations that require a driver to drive his car 'alone and unaided'
To be fair, I don't think there was any chance of Rosberg catching Hamilton. Hamilton had been babying those tyres all race, Rosberg had been thrashing them a second a lap faster to catch up with Max and then spent several laps messing around behind him in the turbulent air. A lap younger they might have been but I just don't see them still being in as good a condition.ChrisM40 wrote:Yet another great trace and potentially great race ruined by idiotic decisions made by those directing the race. This is what is driving fans away, not the technical regulations about the cars.
Permanent failure if things continued as they were. He changed something, which prevented it.RZS10 wrote:Toto Wolff just claimed "permanent failure" on the gearbox ... but it wasn't permanent, he continued, and we even saw him in 7th gear later on in the onboards ... weird
You and some posts higher up are probably right, but I'd still go with the defense in my previous post, play dumb and hope it goes through.Wynters wrote:Telling someone how to fix a problem is not the same as telling them that there is a problem. The rule you bolded only applies in the latter case.Bomber_Pilot wrote:I don't think there was anything wrong with that radio message:
2. Indication of a critical problem with the car. Any message of this sort may only be used if failure of a component or system is imminent and potentially terminal.
I think the rules are pretty poor in this area and it's led to a heck of a lot less traffic for the fans to hear too (although I believe that's due to Bernie clamping down on FOM and hiding it under the cloak of this rule). That it's only going to get worse is disheartening.
I thought Lewis was in a way asking the crowd not to boo, as he knew the mic was going to Nico next.SparkyAMG wrote:Shame about the boos, though I suppose they were inevitable after Austria.
Hamilton looked like a bit of a tool saying there was not much booing immediately before Rosberg was booed heavily for the second time.
Not a terrible race but tyre management was the key here. I don't think Rosberg will be penalised for the messages as it looked pretty critical, but I don't know how it'll be interpreted.
Rosberg's tyres were the same age as they pitted him directly behind Hamilton.Wynters wrote:To be fair, I don't think there was any chance of Rosberg catching Hamilton. Hamilton had been babying those tyres all race, Rosberg had been thrashing them a second a lap faster to catch up with Max and then spent several laps messing around behind him in the turbulent air. A lap younger they might have been but I just don't see them still being in as good a condition.ChrisM40 wrote:Yet another great trace and potentially great race ruined by idiotic decisions made by those directing the race. This is what is driving fans away, not the technical regulations about the cars.
I think it was a dig at the Austrian crowd, he did not deserved the boo's at that race.NathanOlder wrote:I thought Lewis was in a way asking the crowd not to boo, as he knew the mic was going to Nico next.SparkyAMG wrote:Shame about the boos, though I suppose they were inevitable after Austria.
Hamilton looked like a bit of a tool saying there was not much booing immediately before Rosberg was booed heavily for the second time.
Not a terrible race but tyre management was the key here. I don't think Rosberg will be penalised for the messages as it looked pretty critical, but I don't know how it'll be interpreted.
Conserving Tyres is something that alwas played a part in F1 racing except maybe the Bridgestone era?hollowBallistix wrote:It's so annoying hearing that drivers are not going to the maximum to conserve tyres or engine components.
They have always conserved tyres in F1, its not a new thing. The engines though yes, but they rarely do that unless they dont have a hope of improving their position.hollowBallistix wrote:It's so annoying hearing that drivers are not going to the maximum to conserve tyres or engine components.
