MBilcke wrote:saw Bernie, Niki and Christian together in a local bar in Francorchamps on saturdaynight.
Normal night with friends on a race weekend?
No, it's strictly business. The same way they were discussing Pirelli changes (see photo in Caption Competition) only this time it was about Michelin
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Going back to Perez. There's no "forcing off the track in the breaking zone", there's "forcing off the track", period, like Vettel-Alonso Monza 2012 or Ham-Webb Hungary 2013. It's funny how Coulthard (and others) didn't think about it in terms of penalties but when he got one it was suddenly CERTAIN AND OBVIOUS. It's called expectation bias, you watch it: nothing, you know it's under investigation: oh, it doesn't look good, penalty given: oh, that's obvious.
Here's my theory, FIA manipulated results in Hungary by giving BS penalties so now to cover it they gave "similar" penalties for nothing to show: see, we're not biased. Gutierrez for going off, although this one wasn't even close to Gro-Mass, in the other one speed makes all the difference and you could argue that what Perez did was dangerous. Let's wait until "high profile" driver does it to test it.