Personally i think this is stupid. It was a inncocent which was catagorly the teams fualt for not alerting the drivers. The team should of been punished not lewis and nicko!Lewis Hamilton will be demoted ten places down the French Grand Prix grid as a punishment for causing the pit lane crash in today's race at Montreal.
Nico Rosberg will receive the same penalty for his involvement in the incident, as the stewards deemed that both had breached article 16.1 of the regulations by 'causing a collision'.
The former championship leader ran into the back of Kimi Raikkonen while the Ferrari was stopped at a red light in the pit exit, taking both cars out of the race.
The red light was on as the safety car train was passing the pits at the time.
Most of the leaders had dived in for their first stops as soon as the pits opened, but while Raikkonen and eventual winner Robert Kubica noticed the red light and stopped, Hamilton and Rosberg appeared unaware.
Hamilton ploughed into the rear of the Ferrari, and was himself then struck by Rosberg's Williams, which was able to continue after a second stop for a new front wing.
Lewis insisted he had seen the stop light and had just been unable to slow down in time.
"I saw the red light, but by the time I had to stop and I saw the red light it was too late," he told ITV Sport's Louise Goodman.
“It was not a racing incident as such, but I think it’s really unfortunate."
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Lewis Hamiltion & Niko Rosberg - 10 grid drop penaltys.
Last edited by Yoshimitsui; 09-06-2008 at 01:33 PM.
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why didn't kimi get a 10 grid drop from last week then? he caused a crash and got nothing. if he did get the 10 place drop lewis wouldn't have crashed into him today.
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I think it's cause he wasn't in the pit. Lewis was in the pit and Kimi was waiting for a red light
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He did still crash into sutil which indeed is 'causing a collision'.
Originally Posted by Poojie
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Yeah but aren't there differences in outside and inside of the pitlane crashes? As Kimi and Nico were waiting at the red light, Hamilton shouldn't have gone. In the Moscow race it was poor control that caused the collision
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09-06-2008, 10:34 AM #6
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WTH?! That has annoyed me so much :|
Kubica to win i suppose I hate ferarri.
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I expect lewis will be on a one stop next week then, if he qualifys first place he'll start 10th of course and with only one stop 10 places shouldn't be that hard to climb.
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11th is it? Originally Posted by Mr.Sam
'cos then 10 drivers would be above him.A collection of forum users' views on obesity
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It will probably soon go away.
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we all know why they did that
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Oh yes sorry
Originally Posted by F32
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