Perez should have been shown the black flag for that, this was one of the most unsportsmanlike things I have seen in F1 in the last few decades.Darth-Piekus wrote: ↑03 Jul 2024, 18:17That's the thing though. Red Bull didnt hesitate to use Perez to drive dirty against Hamilton so Max would close the gap in Abu Dhabi 2021. The worst was that turn where he sent Hamilton to the wall and took it as slow as possible. If Red Bull doesnt have any morals to use any tactics to win then why should Mclaren respect a team that doesnt respect F1.
And in general the FIA should remember that they have that thing called black flag, I can think of a number of instances it should have been shown in the last few years, it's a legitimate way of discipline and the one on the receiving end of it will not do the same mistake again.
Meaningless time penalties that drop you at best a couple of places and cost a few points, and fines in the tens or hundreds( super rarely) of thousands of euros to multi-billion corporations are a joke at best.
If we are honest, for years the sport is not govern on the track, there are inconsistencies, bad calls (how you can do that with tens of cameras and sensors it's beyond me), lagging calls, revolving door stewards and much more. This is the most urgent matter to be handled and it ruins the sport to it's core ,for example not following your own black and white written rulebook in 2021 safety-car debacle with 0 consequences, or giving track limits penalty while losing time and gaining no advantage, really??
Stewards must be ex-drivers, have the same X number of races they govern every year, where they are familiar with every cm of the track. It really feels like it's all a guess game in the stewards room.
