Ryar wrote: ↑20 Jul 2021, 12:29
SiLo wrote: ↑20 Jul 2021, 12:24
Ryar wrote: ↑20 Jul 2021, 12:02
British GP stewards ruled that Hamilton was responsible for the incident, but the punishment was extremely lenient. Besides, he ruined Max's race and improved his own championship chances and has induced millions in car damages. It makes a good enough reason for taking the fight out of track for Red Bull.
It makes literally no sense, otherwise all the teams would be suing each other every time a driver gets taken out in a crash that wasn't their fault.
It won't have to be if there are more stringent penalties applied, taking into account the action and the impact. There is a reason why stewards are kept and that is to exactly do that, otherwise anyone can simply use the rule book, which itself is devoid of real life impacts of incidents.
This is racing, if you crash, your fault or not, it’s coming from your budget. This is so in the most simple soap box down hill all the way up to F1. The whole premise of having to pay the competition for the damage on their car is ridiculous. As for the budget cap: the same applies what I said when Bottas got his car ruined. This is how racing works. Tough luck plus you have to budget in a few crashes, if you don’t, it’s your own fault. Just image HAAS doing the same, they would bankrupt themselves.
As for heftier penalties: teams and drivers asked for penalties for the action, not the outcome.
Driver licence points were introduced for this reason but are misused for small infringements. Instead of giving a driver automatically a point or two for some wheel banging at 80 km/h, point could be “awarded” for stuff like this, without infringing in the race.