Karthikeyan gets a penalty

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Who's fault was it?

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Paco Montoya said:
Looked like a racing incident, but post-race Vettel was just stupid, the nice-guy persona disappears when things don't go his way (e.g collision with Webber 2010, angry at pirelli man 2011) in the race i can accept the anger, but he lost 4th place in the end, and was lucky his main rivals didn't really exploit it (if Alonso challenges for the title, he is the greatest ever).

Vettel was stupid in his post race conduct
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I have to agree; flying insults like that. It reminded me of the mid-2010 Vettel.
 
Its completely understandably Seb's anger when he finished the race. He has just lost 4th place, potentially 3rd, because of a stupid and reckless piece of driving from NK. It is very clear he swerves to the right, whether or not he was on marbles is irrelevant, as a lapped car it is his responsibility to move OFF the racing line and allow a faster car through. SV was perfectly right to expect that as NK pulled over to let him past he would not then cut right and slash his tyre so I understand his anger! NK knew by joining HRT he would be at the back of the field so if he doesnt like this and wants to complain all the time he should leave F1.
 
Colin:
Although it might be easier for all if it were a simple case of black or white, it is almost always a darker or lighter shade of grey. Please refer to my earlier post.
 
FIA exonerates Vettel, tacitly encourages obscene hand gestures and playground name-calling.

GMM said:
Former driver Adrian Sutil goes even further.

“I can understand him (Vettel),” he told Die Welt newspaper in Germany. “I was often angry when I was lapping people, when they make no room for you while they are fighting for places that have almost no significance.”
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And you wouldn't want to make him angry.
 
Be interesting to see what the people slagging Vettel off make of Karthikeyan's comments...
 
AbsolutelyGlorious:2544822 said:
Be interesting to see what the people slagging Vettel off make of Karthikeyan's comments...
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I think they're all hilarious! They should settle it like men with a round of dead-arms.
 
cosicave said:
Colin:
Although it might be easier for all if it were a simple case of black or white, it is almost always a darker or lighter shade of grey. Please refer to my earlier post.
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I understand what you are meaning however imo this is pretty clear. I am perfectly aware that in most cases there is blame on both sides but here I fail to see what Vettel really did wrong apart from giving Karthikeyan a really wide berth. You can see from the camera shots and from the onboard that Vettel did not move left and that karthikeyan moved dramatically right; whether or not he went on the rumble strips is irrelevant. NK tried to tuck back in behind SV, misjudged it and gave SV the puncture. Thats pretty much it in my opinion.
IF they had been racing for position then it would have been a different matter and SV would have held some of the blame however NK has a duty to move out of the way because he is being lapped so thats why I think its 100% his fault. :]
 
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