Peter Windsor on The Vettel Incident in Canada
"Hopefully," says Peter Windsor in this video, "Sebastian Vettel's penalty in Canada will change the way that we write the rules about what racing drivers are allowed to do on the race track..." In our concluding video from the Canadian GP weekend, Peter analyses the Vettel incident from a number of angles - and sums up the Canadian GP in general: Montreal, 2019, will go down as the race that brought some acid to an otherwise straightforward year.
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I cannot see how Seb could have done anything different apart from crashing into the wall. He was on the grass so any braking would have made him go faster. It's funny that if it had been the other way round, there would have been no penalty for Hamilton. Sad.
I don't believe the penalty was fair, however to say that the outcome would have been different if it had been Hamilton who had gone off, is pure conjecture.
Perhaps forgetting Spa 2008 and the 25 second (!) penalty that Hamilton got for cutting the chicane, then letting Raikonnen overtake him before repassing him at the next corner - that was when the stewards invented the new rule that you had to wait 3 corners before overtaking. Sorry, I cannot agree that if it had been the other way around, there would have been no penalty for Hamilton - probably a larger penalty.
There was no way Seb could safely join the track.Braking on grass could have ended with a hefty crash either into Lewis or the wall and possibly a Red flag.Stewards should have used common sense,but Rules are Rules. Sorry Seb.
I fully concur
It seemed to me that as soon as Vettel rejoined the tarmac he put his foot down and that is why he had to correct which resulted in the squeeze on Hamilton. Certainly, he took off and pulled away from Hamilton immediately. Presumably, the telemetry would show this and the stewards would have reviewed it. If he had lifted as he re-entered the track, then, imo, he would not have drifted into Hamilton but would have lost the lead. Without access to the telemetry, fans will, I guess, interpret the video according to their preferences!