I do often wonder if these stewards are drunk the whole weekend.
"Oh we only just uncovered radio evidence to back up he was lying"
Funny that considering it was on youtube on bloody tuesday.
The funny thing is, if the diffuser row is now settled in the courts in favor of it being illegal it'll be Alonso who'll finish 1st with torro rosso 2 and 3. So the stewards are just changing a decision that'll likely be changed again next week.

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/f1releases/2009/Pages/f1_stew...

the radio conversations.

The Ruptured Duck wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 12:00pm:


Good for Mercedes either way!


Worryingly for everyone in the week's Autosport, BGP have found the Merc to be more efficient than the Honda in cooling terms, meaning the tiny sidepods can be shrunk further!

My thoughts are that had it been Hamilton who had gone off and Trulli gone past then Hamilton would have been penalised for overtaking him legitimately to regain the place.

The other thing that that strikes me is that if a car leaves the track during a safety car period and retires/crashes ...... does everyone have to stop until the SC pulls off? Because in theory you would be overtaking.

In my mind Trulli had left the track and therefore wasn't in the race no matter if kept it going and pulled back on, otherwise you would have the situation described above.

expat wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 3:17pm:

I agree with you here, a driver clumbsy enough to depart the track during a SC should go to the back of the field.  This would clear up any "catch 22" situations where a driver who passes another driver who drives off the track would fear the FIA's punishment for passing him, so he lets the other driver pass, but the other driver doesn't want to pass under the SC either so he slows down, but passes any way then gets penalised after the race.  Mclaren were paranoid trying to avoid being penalised by the stewards.  Maybe a rule that says that drivers shouldn't work it out on their own on the track and allow race control (if they are competent enough) sort out the order and tell the teams.  So if a driver goes off the track, other people can pass him, but that driver cannot pass anyone during the SC until race control allows them.  Drivers who slow to allow another driver by will be ordered not to unless someone speeds past them.

That was too confusing.  How about just get rid of the damn rule book alltogether along with KERS?

This was on Autosport forums, I think its brilliant.
Although to be fair you could replace Whitmarsh with Bernie or Max and it would work quite well.

The Ruptured Duck wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 9:50pm:



Unless it is Ferrari, in which case you would be promoted to pole position, given an extra point for turning up and everyone else would have to start form the pit lane

Matt

The madness continues.  As long as the fia is insane i wonder if an appeal could be made to penalise massa for running into Bourdais last year at Fuji?