Tag: stewards

Op-Ed – The Rules Are Clear! …clear as the Muddy Mo.

Doug Patterson

The crown jewel of Formula 1, the historic Monaco Grand Prix, took place this past weekend and as usual the race was filled with lots of interesting happenings except for actual racing. …ok, there was Alonzo who was simply brilliant, but that’s only a single data point, not a trend. You can hear Shaun and Mike dissect the race later this week in Podcast Ep 39, but I want to take some time to analyze the mayhem that happened at the end of the race. With just a handful of…

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F1 – Stewards Guilty of 151c

mike

The action on the track at Interlagos was fierce and exciting for most of the race on Sunday, which made for one of the better races of the season. The stewards were kept busy all day though, due to the early safety car period, a hot headed Jarno Trulli, a grand battle of Japanese drivers, and a fireball on pitlane. Unfortunatley though, it became clear as the race played out that the Stewards were once again incapable of rendering decisions on incidents. The Incidents On the first lap there were…

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F1 – Vettel to Talk with Stewards Again

mike

Sebastian Vettel has been summoned before the stewards at Malaysia. Christian Horner stated the following to Autosport: “Steward advisor Alan Donnelly has asked to have a chat with Sebastian to go through the rationale behind their penalty. I thought the penalty was harsh; we thought it was very much a racing incident – Sebastian was defending his line and the eventual decision depended on what was specifically discussed during the stewards’ hearing. I think Alan wanted to speak to Sebastian about that, to discuss the long and short of it.”…

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F1 – Hamilton Excluded from Melbourne

mike

Lewis Hamilton was summoned before the race stewards at Malaysia where they have ruled that he and McLaren “acted in a manner prejudicial to the conduct of the event by providing evidence deliberately misleading to the Stewards”. This after radio transmissions between the team and the driver were reviewed. Therefore, the stewards have excluded McLaren from the race results. Hamilton has been stripped of his retroactively applied 3rd place finish and Jarno Trulli will retroactively re-assume his 3rd step on the podium. Open Paddock would like to express our extreme…

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