Maldonado's collision during the Monaco Grand Prix was a lack of anticipation of the circumstances ahead. This makes almost entirely to blame for the incident, as far as I am concerned. He needs to put a lid on himself for a little while and cool his head. He is talented: of that there is surely no doubt. But in his F1 career thus far, he is continuing to be something of a hot-head.
Hard to disagree, especially after crowing that he fancies a crack at the title. I'm hoping for more of the Jekyll and less of the Hyde in Montréal.
Ok, so I think it's obvious the guy is becoming more of a dick in the other driver's eyes, at least. It's weird Webber hasn't blogged about it, considering he hammered Hamilton about having a couple of incidents in his first few seasons, but then again he's been unaffected so far. Maybe it is time to bring in suspensions for repeat offenders.
I imagine many of the drivers don't like him, not only for his actions earlier in the year, but because he's a pay driver. A suspension is necessary should they commit an offence that endangers another driver's life. I still think Schumacher should have been suspended for his move on Barichello at Hungary last year. Something like that merits a suspension. That much we can agree on. Today's incident was a racing incident, like in Australia, but Maldonado needs to be careful as his reputation is beginning to have an effect on him and his relationshp with the stewards and other drivers.
I don't see todays incident as a racing incident. He missed the apex by the width of a double decker bus and took out Perez who'd given him way more room than most would. He's too much of a liability with both his errors and his tantrums. There's being a no bullshit racer and then there's a cucumber. Maldonado is proving himself to be the latter.
He wasn't really, all his results for the season still stood, and he carried the number 3 on his car the following season. Given he'd already lost the championship it was pretty weak, the fact they didn't even enforce it was pathetic, especially given his track record.
You're right! As far as I can remember McLaren had gained a few pictures of a Ferrari in 2008 and they were completely discounted from the standings and given the lowest numbers for 2008, with the smallest garage... Just shows that the FIA have some stupid principles really, if endangering lives through stupidity is deemed only fine or grid-drop worthy!
Pretty sure it was a 600+ page technical dossier. But yeah, at least the FIA enforced their decision that year.
Hahahaha probably more than the memory sticks of the day could take I guess! Was it just the one guy who looked at them? If you look at some of the other decisions, though, especially the Alonso win at Singapore under Briatore (how the feck he kept that win is beyond me), the Sport just looks ridiculous with so much inconsistency in terms of punishment. I mean, a cheat is a cheat is a cheat, yes? I know Flavio challenged it in court, but if you can't win that case every which way you look at it, the rules are poorly designed or they hired a crap lawyer. The problem is I don't think the FIA have ever just said "look, we know some of the decisions in the past were a bit inconsistent, but here's the line in the sand, time for fairness", and they never will.
Smallest Garage... I think they got pitty and given the #5 garage which is the last of the big garages
Were they? Fair enough, I just remember the segment on Tv pre-Australia (I believe) which said they were using the smallest space at either the end or beginning of the pitlanes for the year. They had a double garage, compared with the triple they were used to, so they were saying they had less room to operate and had to use less stuff.
