siskue2005 wrote: ↑27 Sep 2020, 17:05
Comments from wolf - one penalty was for driving too slowly?
"The errors always happen together," he said when asked about the incident by Autosport.
"It's not a team error, it's not a Lewis error. And I wouldn't want to point at anybody, and I've never done that.
"Ron [Meadows] and I were at the stewards, the verdict was he wasn't in the right place.
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There is no mention what the right place is in the director's note, nor is it in the regulations. So we disagree on that one - we agree to disagree on that one.
"The other one was not driving at constant speed in the reconnaissance laps, and there again, it's debatable.
Wolff insisted that Masi's notes did not specify exactly where drivers could conduct practice starts, and that there was no advantage gained from where he did the start.
"The race director's notes say, if I'm well-informed, that you must do practice starts after the lights on the right side of the pitlane. And that's what happened," he said.
"The designated place, it says after the lights, at the right side. It does specify that the practice starts need to be done after the lights on the right side."
"You know, things are not always black and white, and there's room for interpretation. There are rules that can be interpreted in two ways. There is common sense.
There is the fact that then an in-race penalty was given, actually two in-race penalties were given, for an infringement that happened before the race.
"And there was an argument that he gained an advantage by making the [practice starts] there, I think it was not an advantage because there was no grip, so much less grip than you would have on your starting positions. It is what it is at the end of the day, obviously, we're all emotional about that."
The bold parts are really concerning, it looks like they wanted to punish Lewis badly
Whut?
<<< "The other one was not driving at constant speed in the reconnaissance laps, and there again, it's debatable.>>>
So the second penalty was for another reason?
Also, other than the bold parts, I'm concerned with this:
"And there was an argument that he gained an advantage by making the [practice starts] there, I think it was not an advantage because there was no grip, so much less grip than you would have on your starting positions. It is what it is at the end of the day, obviously, we're all emotional about that."
What advantage did Hamilton gain by those practice starts? This is crazy. FIA/stewards are becoming the worse ever and affected by hateful internet mob.