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Originally Posted by keithwalton
I'm impressed the stewards that are supposed to attend every race to ensure everyone gets the same treatment obviously favour ferrari ...
Kimi hits Sutil from behind and is able to continue whilst sutil is knocked out of the race - Kimi recieves no penalty.
Lewis hits Kimi and takes them both out of the race and get a 10 place grid penalty.
Nico hits Lewis but continues in the race whilst lewis doesn't, Nico gets a 10 place grid penalty.
Same offences, different punishments. Yes lewis was silly down the pitlane he did see the red light just to late to stop properly, as well he had 1 car legnth less stopping distance than the other two.
On a side note, kimi should not of been on the left, your supposed to wait in single file, so technically kimi should not of been there for lewis to hit! But i'm sure he wont get punished!
As for compensation no he doesn't get any, though I bet force india would like some free engines!
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By that reasoning Lewis should have had a penalty for driving up the back of Alonso in Bahrain.
Not to mention every other driver that has ever driven into the back of another car, they'll be busy after those first corner incidents.
The two incidents are fundamentally different as Kimi's (and Lewis in Bahrain for that matter) was an
racing incident i.e. an accident that happens from time to time. Kimi had lost control of the car way before he hit Sutil.
This one was
not an racing incident, Lewis said so himself. They weren't even racing at the time as they were stationary when he drove straight into the back of them, and would not have happened if Lewis hadn't been driving with his eyes shut.
The penalties are given if the stewards deem the incident to have been the sole fault of the driver
alone and
wholly avoidable.
Lets just face it he screwed up big time, drove into the back of someone completely unnecessarily and got the penalty consistently handed out in these situations.
Listening to ITV
and the way James ****ing Alan was going on it was Kimis fault for stopping for the red light.
"They hit each other" - Newer heard such drivel, Lewis hit Kimi and he managet that one
all on his own thank you!