Aare wrote:
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/10/8530.html
First time I see F1.com is dubious about the decisions. More I look, more I see conspiracy there, which is towards Ferrari favoritism.
The Bourdais' 25s is making me especially disgusted.
Actually, all that did for me was make Massa's penalty look a little stupid. He was a lot more alongside than I thought, and he was really trying to avoid hitting Hamilton, I means most of his car was on the curbs. It looked much more like a racing incident.
The Bourdais penalty looks about right. From the onboard you can see Massa actually goes past him on the straight, so he probably thought he was completely clear going into the corner. Bourdais tried to outbrake him coming out of the pits which is pretty stupid. I wish they would've shown the incident from Bourdais' onboard, because that would've actually shown what happened.
The Hamilton penalty I actually don't really get. Yeah, he shoved Raikkonen and really a lot of the field off the track, but I've never seen them penalize someone for that before. Since when has that been grounds for a penalty rather than just a reprimand?
Either way, hat's off to F1.com for putting that footage up - that's very cool. Thanks for the link, too.
EDIT: Now that I watch it again and think about it, I think the grounds for the Hamilton penalty came from the fact that he gained a huge advantage from it. He shoved Raikkonen off - who was P1 but fell back to what, P8? - and immediately went challenging for the lead again. Hamilton didn't lose much ground at all, but Raikkonen lost a lot. That makes sense enough for me, anyway, to think it was a reasonable penalty.