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Seems a good decision @bascb. Not to say it wasn’t fun watching drivers run up the track to try and get started anyway.

The idea was that there was 15 minutes to the restart. But they already started putting cars on trucks that were strewn about the track, so everyone who was not able to immediately drive on, and got out of their […]

Frijns was not allowed to restart because he had a puncture? That’s completely ridiculous! Why would they not allow any car to restart anyway, if it can be fixed in time? Truly baffling, especially considering […]

Drivers are pretty […]

@BasCB I was thinking the same thing. At least they’re being consistent.. I was also thinking about the use of banning Grosjean for a race, while the guys in GP2 get away with driving that would even be penalized […]

I’m just… lost for words here. I really don’t understand the stewards. It’s exactly as @bascb says: if you do something purposefully, it shoulds be punished 100 times more severely than accidents. What […]

He finally got a penalty! FINALLY! He deserved a penalty since Malaysia, I think he deserves more a ban than a penalty. He has been completely ridiculous defending positions!

Strange, you get banned for a mistake at the start causing a crash, but not for dangerous driving. Much like we saw in F1 last year when Grosjean got the ban for the Spa start gaffe, but Maldonado’s dangerous […]

Thank goodness they have finally taken an action against him.

Hope that Cecotto learns from this. He’s clearly quick and has a decent amount of talent but it would be a shame if was to be wasted because he’s […]

A suspension for Cecotto is long overdue, he should have had one after that outrageous incident with Bird in Malaysia. That was done maliciously, while this was sheer incompetence.

Cecotto has been suspended from Monaco Sprint race for the Ste Devote crash

So gutted for Leimer; had Cecotto not outbraked himself, Leimer probably would have ended up third or so.

@prisoner-monkeys Agree about Leal, but Ceccon hitting Bird happened miles before the Cecotto accident. Just look at the video Keith posted: you can’t possibly argue Ceccon’s and Cecotto’s accidents were linked.

@andae23 Ceccon didn’t really outbrake anyone, IMO. Bird braked very hard to prevent himself being squeezed by Cecotto (who outbraked everyone) and Ceccon rammed into his back. If Ceccon had braked hard like […]

The problem is that everything Ceccon and Leal did came about as a direct result of Cecotto’s accident. If Cecotto had made it through the first corner, Ceccon and Leal would not have hit the other cars.

In my opinion the following drivers are to blame:

Cecotto: outbraked himself and ended up with Leimer on top of him. Not clever, but it can happen – it’s not near as bad as the thing he did in […]

Well, we all know what the stewards’ response will be – Palmer gets a penalty for the improper use of social media, whilst there is no action taken against Johnny Cecotto.

Palmer’s not happy:

Taken out at the first corner by a number of idiots. Absolutely gutted. I’d sooner start from the pitlane than within two rows of Cecotto

— Jolyon Palmer (@JolyonPalmer) May 24, 2013

That’s remarkable foresight, given that it is only about 300m from to the first corner.

Anyway, Sam Bird recovered from needing repairs to win the race, ahead of Kevin Ceccon and Mitch Evans.