phuston wrote:Patrick wrote: Jim may be making a general point and certainly the behaviour of professional drivers when they 'squeeze' their opponents as they leave the grid seems reprehensible to me.
I don't know about this 'squeezing'. Seems to me that the track is defined very clearly by a solid white line denoting the edge. All racing should take place on track and therefore inside the line. If you are in front and defend your line to the point that an attacking car would have to cross the white line (leave the track) then surely the attacking car should lift off in order to stay within the designated track or be penalised.
I may be a lone voice in my neck of the woods but I believe it was the naughty Brazilian who should have got the penalty in Hungary and not the dirty hun. It was Rubins who put himself between another car and the wall and then drove off track when he crossed the white line to gain position. Surely of little South American went of circuit when he used the pit lane exit to make his move stick.
When it comes to handing out penalties it seems Dell boy (a dirty touring car driver in his day) employed a little pay back from past run ins with Herr Schumacher and slapped a grid slot punishment for a crime he almost committed. In essence the FIA stewards found someone guilty of a crime they almost did. Imagine how many male readers could be imprisoned for sexual offences if you only had to think about the crime. Every Sun reader who gets to page three for a start.
If anyone it is Rubins that could have caused an accident. Schumi moved to defend his line knowing Rubins could see what he was doing. Rubins drove straight across the pit lane exit and should know that any car exiting wouldn't know he was there.
Racing should be hard, if it was easy you would have people from Norfolk doing it.