It started off as an innocent incident where Trulli slid off the track (either by the slippery tires or by his own mistake at car control) which was his mistake. Lewis following directly behind of course would have overtaken him unless there is a new rule whereby you must stop completely and allow Trulli to come back onto the track.
Under the circumstances, Lewis radioed the team to ask for advice but he knows and the team knows and Trulli knows that under the safety car ruling, Trulli cannot re-pass Lewis. But because of the incompetent FIA who have shown a hatred for McLaren and to a certain extent black drivers (or should I say just "blacks"), Lewis and McLaren (who have been on the receiving end of the FIA many times these past few years) have to be extra cautious.
A look at the radio transmission between Lewis and the team shows how scared they are of the FIA because the FIA seem to be looking for any excuse to penalise them. But when in a situation like the one at Melbourne, McLaren told Lewis to hold on while they checked with Race control. But Race Control was busy (with what?) and according to Max Mosley last year at Spa, is not supposed to be contacted about goings on at the track (so what is Race Control for then and is Charlie Whitting redundant or "makan gaji buta"?).
Last year at Spa McLaren asked Charlie about Lewis' move on Kimi and Charlie said "OK" but after the race the stewards decided otherwise and gave Lewis a 25s penalty. Then Max mosley said don't ask Charlie, so what are they supposed to do then? Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Tell me now that the FIA is righteous and not out to get McLaren? I don't think so.
Anyway, back to Melbourne. The whole situation could have been handled without fuss on the spot on the track IF the stewards and FIA had used the technology and policies available to them (which by the way was mandated by them). There is telemetry data and radio transmisions not to mention spotters, marshalls and stewards. Why can't the incompetent stewards use Race Control to check and double check, make a decision and order the correct remedy on the spot? It can be done in IndyCar and NASCAR as Keith of F1Fanatic puts it:
"It is doubtful a controversy quite as unnecessary as the one we have just experienced in F1 could happen in sports like Indy Car or NASCAR.
Why? Because they have established the practice of using race control to resolve queries like this to minimise changes to the race order after the chequered flag.
If a driver appears in the wrong position during a safety car period, they don’t wait until after the race to shuffle the order around. And they certainly don’t do it by handing out an arbitrary time penalty that bears no relation to the severity of the infraction, as Jarno Trulli originally experienced.
They use common sense. They radio the teams, tell them to swap their drivers around, and the job is done quickly and painlessly."
In this case, I feel that the stewards and FIA are at fault. They caused all this ruckus because they used "feelings" rather than common sense and technology available to them. They created an atmosphere of fear in which you are deemed wrong and penalised nomatter what you do. If you don't check with them, they say you should. If you check with them, they say no need and then go ahead and penalise you.And to top it all off, they have idiots who are not competent in motorsports and the rules and have no common sense as race stewards and these morons are given God like powers to fuck up the race results for us fans. At the end of the day, what is the point of investing so much of our time and effort in the sport for morons to screw it up?
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