Lewis Hamilton has won his first Grand Prix of the season thanks to a solid three stop strategy. Kimi Raikkonen fended off a hard challenge from Vettel to finish third while Vettel does another great job for the championship.
He was penalized for Massa. That was unjustified.WhiteBlue wrote:You are pretty alone there. Grosjean has the situational awareness of a dead raccoon. He gave no space to Button in a situation where there was no point in pushing someone off the track.turbof1 wrote:Gutted for Grosjean. That penalty wasn't justified in my view.
The penalty was for overtaking Massa. They are discussing it right now at skysport and he was off the line by 2 inches.WhiteBlue wrote:You are pretty alone there. Grosjean has the situational awareness of a dead raccoon. He gave no space to Button in a situation where there was no point in pushing someone off the track.turbof1 wrote:Gutted for Grosjean. That penalty wasn't justified in my view.
It was 15 laps to go, not 11, which is very borderline, especially when they have no unused softs left. Pushing on an extra 4 laps wasn't really doable, as they'd already done 22 laps on that set of mediums, and they were getting at *most* 20-24 out of those tyres.MOWOG wrote:Curious decision by Red Bull to NOT put Vettel out on softs with just 11 laps to go. Also curious that Vettel could not pass Raikonnen at the end, when the Lotus tires were 20 LAPS older.
It was for the pass on massa, but the stewards had obviously also seen the collision with Button.turbof1 wrote:The penalty was for overtaking Massa. They are discussing it right now at skysport and he was off the line by 2 inches.WhiteBlue wrote:You are pretty alone there. Grosjean has the situational awareness of a dead raccoon. He gave no space to Button in a situation where there was no point in pushing someone off the track.turbof1 wrote:Gutted for Grosjean. That penalty wasn't justified in my view.
The stewards apparently were not well pleased with several questionable situations in the space of a few laps and after the pass on Button I can understand that.F1technicak race report wrote:On lap 36 Grosjean is handed a drive through penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage. Indeed, his pass on Massa through the outisde of the high speed turn 4 required him to go off track the exit of the turn which is not allowed. Grosjean was earlier on already under investigation earlier in the race for causing a collision with Button, but escaped a penalty for that.
) ! At the time I wrote it, there wasn't (and still isn't now) a penalty for the button-grosjean case (which obviously deserves a penalty). The only case possibly I could have spoken about was the massa-grosjean case, which did not deserve a penalty. Grosjean only drove sensibly and if Massa gave him 2 inches more room (which by the rules he is obliged to do and more, but likely couldn't due old tyres) it wouldn't have been a penalty at all.It was for the pass on massa, but the stewards had obviously also seen the collision with Button.
Well yeh, that's exactly what made it an impressive drive – when he needed to make a pass, he made it, and made it quickly. His opposition didn't, that decided the race.RB_[Gnx] wrote:Impressive stuff from Hamilton , although i Believe that the Button - Vettel battle helped him
The pass on button isnt even close to something the stewards need to bother with, end off. We need to have proper stewards who check proper things and dont go after each and every god damn little touch, especially when the little touch causes no harm to anyone and no one loses more then 0.1 seconds.The stewards apparently were not well pleased with several questionable situations in the space of a few laps and after the pass on Button I can understand that.
Grosjean did.beelsebob wrote:Well yeh, that's exactly what made it an impressive drive – when he needed to make a pass, he made it, and made it quickly. His opposition didn't, that decided the race.RB_[Gnx] wrote:Impressive stuff from Hamilton , although i Believe that the Button - Vettel battle helped him
