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Originally Posted by barnettracing
As Bella said, the Button incident was a racing incident. **** happens when you're racing. F1 has become the litigious society where everything is black and white, there is always someone to blame. Penalties never used to be awarded for such a thing. It was also, six of one, half dozen of the other. Button could have backed out, Grosjean could have given him more space.
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i think the button thing strayed into the "legislating for the consequences not the action" "why do we issue penalties in the first place" existential territory as well. which is a fair pointer that the flippin' thing was wrong.
totally agree about the blame and black and white comment too. there is no common sense being applied, and i still think transparency is an issue.
however, the way they worked through and explained the logic behind not issuing a penalty for grosjeans wonky floor in qualifying was absolutely superb. now they just need to apply that common sense and logic to driving penalties. if they did, there wouldn't be the concerns with consistency.