"Red Bull owe him a lot of money..." This is so much crap. Every person working in motorsport knows that there is danger involved, as Mark Webber said after the race. Not much else to say about it.
If something was obviously your fault and you nearly kill a guy doing it then you owe them money. It's just common sense, if he doesn't get compensation for it then it shows how weak of a team RB is.
Sorry to say that, but you talk like a person who has no clue about what things are important in life.
Red bull fined 30000 euros I think they have got away a little lightly under the circumstances. The camara man was air lifted to hospital and has a broken collar bone and cracked ribs What are you thoughts?
It's racing... accidents happen. They can't really punish the team with a points deductions or race ban for a genuine mistake. I'm sure the guys involved feel pretty bad.
Excuse me, what does that have to do with benefits? Red Bull released a car unsafely and have injured someone as a result.
I understand its racing and was a mistake. What's really getting my goat up at the moment is the stewards investigating after the race after only a few laps.
Penalizing Webber would have been redundant. He was penalized enough by the error alone. It's also redundant being too harsh on the team when you think about it as this isn't something they want to see happen and will most likely be investigating thoroughly what went wrong internally to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Unless I'm mistaken the team released Webber and he himself didn't jump the lights so the team is at fault. I don't know what the going rate is for this sort of error but I can't remember a recent error from Red Bull so its also a first offence. Accidents happen and fortunately the consequences were not to severe (considering what a tyre of that mass and velocity could do!)
Does anyone remember what happened to Renault initially after Hungary '09? Which was much less dangerous than today. If you don't know they were banned for Valencia..
I didn't remember it being that harsh, they did let him drive around for almost a lap with it half attached though I think.... maybe?
They originally got a ban and then they appealed and got it taken away, I can't remember exactly but it might have been because they did it in 2006 too.
Renault were initially hit so hard because they knew the wheel wasn't attached correctly after release, and rather than pulling the car over, they allowed it to try get back around to the pits. Highly dangerous to marshals, other drivers and spectators. This situation isn't the same.
