[Official] Round 05: Spanish Grand Prix

[ECW Dan Selby]

Originally Posted by SilverSpeed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/18053650

Maldonado is just taking the **** now...surely

I had to laugh at the way that was put...

But, in fairness, I suppose he's got a point?! (or two!)

Selby

[safc_fan89]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

[Mod]I don't usually publicly comment on a poster's attitude but in your case I am making an exception. It is apparent from your posts that you dislike Maldonado. You may not be alone but if you have nothing constructive to write then please try to avoid being inflammatory.[/Mod]

With the points scoring available these days, 39 points off the leader board could be turned around in two races. Unlikely but not impossible. So why shouldn't he display some ambition?

There's nothing wrong with showing a bit of ambition, but considering he only had something like 4 points before this race, it does sound like he is getting a bit ahead of himself.

He always goes well at Monaco so maybe if he backs it up with a good performance there...one race does not turn someone into a championship contender. Usually.

[safc_fan89]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

Schumacher won't be happy with this. Five-place grid penalty: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...2/5/13349.html He may have been right about Senna changing position in the braking zone, but the reason he hit him was less to do with that and more to do with misjudging his own car positioning and/or braking.

I don't think Senna was moving his car about to try and block Schumacher. If Schumacher expects a penalty to be given out for that, then we'd see 20 penalties per race.

It was Schumacher's fault 100%. He's been involved in far too many collisions since he returned to the sport, and a lot of them are more his fault than his opponent's.

[Bononi]

Originally Posted by SilverSpeed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/18053650

Maldonado is just taking the **** now...surely

Originally Posted by ECW Dan Selby

I had to laugh at the way that was put...

But, in fairness, I suppose he's got a point?! (or two!)

Selby

Originally Posted by safc_fan89

There's nothing wrong with showing a bit of ambition, but considering he only had something like 4 points before this race, it does sound like he is getting a bit ahead of himself.

He always goes well at Monaco so maybe if he backs it up with a good performance there...one race does not turn someone into a championship contender. Usually.

Actually drivers are payed (or pay) for that, so he's in his own right to have this ambition.

[ECW Dan Selby]

Definitely. It's just kind of funny that normally it'd be a completely ludicrous statement, but given this season, it's suddenly not so strange, is it?

Selby

[Bononi]

Originally Posted by ECW Dan Selby

Definitely. It's just kind of funny that normally it'd be a completely ludicrous statement, but given this season, it's suddenly not so strange, is it?

Selby

Hopefully not ! It will be most interesting to have 6 or 8 drivers challenging the WDC up until the last rounds.

[Marbot]

If SFW says that that Maldonado is the real deal deal, then I believe that there is something in what someone like SFW says. If that driver also happens to bring along a heap of cash, then so much the better, IMO.

[Osella]

Originally Posted by Bononi

Yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1!

[werner]

Originally Posted by safc_fan89

He always goes well at Monaco

I know someone who disagrees about that.

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by werner

I know someone who disagrees about that.

can't really disagree with the form he's showed in the last few reasons around there, unless they are a marshall or race official from when he was in the Formula Renault 3.5 series....

[werner]

Lewis Hamilton...

[beau1]

Originally Posted by werner

Lewis Hamilton...

Oh, that guy who drove him off the road and into the barriers you mean...

[Born Racer]

So whilst I am not against the penalty applied to McLaren and Hamilton, why is it that the rule allows such a penalty for qualifying but not for the race? I have seen it mentioned (I think on Sky) that it's because it's more difficult for teams to predict how much fuel they need to last the race. Is there a particular punishment specified in the regulations?

It's odd that by comparison Karthikeyan was allowed in the race having failed to qualify. I know he'd had car problems in the weekend prior to that and there is a special dispensation rule, but they apply it so often, it renders the 107% thing a bit pointless.