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Rosberg has enjoyed a win in the clearly best car so far from Mercedes. A car that however sees him consistently been beaten by Schumacher in qualifying and races. I think yours is just that, an impression.

There is very little doubt that Mercedes is getting rid of the faster of the two drivers in 2012. And frankly, there’s no evidence Mercedes would have given him a better car in 2013 than Sauber or Williams could […]

DRS was as bad as it gets down here.
Really just the idea of having DRS at Monza is plain stupid. DRS robbed the scene of many more side-by-side brake at 1st chicane and Roggia.

@bosyber, if you find excitement in the fact that ANYTHING can happen at any second, I’m genuinely happy for you, but as for me, it took two HAM’s sector time to realize what was gonna happen. And It did […]

It should really ring an alarm bell that, without the reckless strategy from Alonso and Vettel, this race would have been easily at a Monaco level of boredom.
At the track that has produced the most exciting […]

All virtual. Slowly fading into position, with easy as pie passing. Reckless choice by Alonso and Vettel doesn’t mean great racing.

6+.

Given his very nice getaway and the pace he had when in clean air, I really really think MSC would have won this race. Gutted, astonishing amount of bad luck.

I guess they would consider DRS in the tunnel for 2013.

Gave it 6. It would have been 4 if the closing laps weren’t so tight.

Bear in mind that radio messages could be aired delayed.

No, it does not become illegal if it has an issue outside the control of the team. The rules explicitely rules out that.
But it became illegal because of the McLaren, hence the penalty.
Yes, “mistake” is no excuse.

Spot on. All this debate about the harshness of the penalty is pointless, like it was a sporting rule being breached.
Illegal car, disqualified. End of it.

Where do the rules say that the punishment for that infringement is to be excluded from the session

The infringment is in the Technical Regulation. Therefore, the car is illegal. I cannot find something that […]

I don’t recall a breach of the Technical Regulation being punished by nothing else than DSQ.
And these rules are part of the Tech Reg.

It was Nurburgring 2011, if I recall.
Happened after the race, which does not fall under the same rule.

Villneuve, 1981, won and wasn’t on the 1st row.
But yeah, it will be extremely difficult for Lewis on the dry.

Lee1,
yes, the race is part of the event.
No, that’s not the case with Vettel. Cars must go back to the pit on their own power in practice and qualifying, the rules don’t include the race, where a car that […]

This debate makes no sense. He made it back to the pits after his first fuel run so there is no reason to suggest he was under-fuelled on that run.

You can return to the pits and still being under-fuelled.
I […]

Where’s the logic to these rules??

There can’t be one, because you are comparing completely different rules for no other purpose than saying how much You dislike one of them.

What bit don’t you get?

The […]

No way. The ratio behind the fuel rules are that in any moment of the event FIA can take a relevant sample of fuel from the car (they say this amounts to 1 litre) to analyse for compliance, it’s not just for […]

@damonsmedley exactly. F1 rules clearly states that an F1 car must comply to the rules at all times during the event. And definitely Q3 is within “the event”.