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Originally Posted by wnut
The officials appeared to be being needlessly provocative, the clown standing in front of the car should have been well aware that time was absolutely critical in the situation and he was just standing around being deliberately obstructive, the cone was obviously deliberately left in front of the scales too, it is usually out the way when the selected car is signaled onto the scales. Somebody need to ask why this situation even arose. This smacks of just deliberately trying to ruin Vettel's qualifying and would apply to this situation no matter who was selected!
This was just plain poor from the officials!
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Originally Posted by ascarracinguk
Tin foil hattery.
For what possible gain would f1 or its stewards want Vettel to be delayed?
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I don't think he's saying they're out for Vettel (and he says it applies no matter who), rather the oddly lacklustre approach to the situation would've ruined [insert driver name] qualifying and isn't really acceptable. And it really isn't. The random weigh bridge drawing has never been fair, but it's accepted because there isn't a better way of doing it. So let's not make it even less fair by acting like an old lady going down to the corner shop.
I feel as though if a local marshal had done this, they'd get crucified, but because he wears an FIA shirt he isn't being bound by expectations of safety and professionalism.
But it wouldn't be F1 without something ridiculous. Next up is why Lewis doesn't get a 5 place drop for an ear ring, and Kimi dropped his digestive biscuit into his tea, which is at least a 3.7 place grid penalty.