Why are Alonso, Domenicali and Ferrari upset with the Hamilton ruling?
Personally, I blame Alonso for not radioing his grievance earlier, causing the delay in the penalty being awarded. Also, had LH not slowed so much whilst considering what to do he would have passed the line no problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEo5eqjjfXc
2010-06-28T00:46:12Z
Broke rule, given penalty, took penalty, still 2nd....suck it up!
2010-06-28T22:35:25Z
I agree MamaB, but the penalties need to be meted out sooner
2010-06-28T22:37:55Z
I agree completely f42
2010-06-28T22:39:56Z
The Webber situation only highlights the need for a quicker penalty Lou
2010-06-28T22:41:07Z
Succinct and correct Adds
2010-06-28T22:42:13Z
Misery needs company - :)
2010-06-28T22:44:19Z
Enslaver - u r mixing ur penalties...LH got a drive thru not a 5 second
Enslaver2010-06-28T22:27:36Z
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F42 is saying the truth.
FIA are wayyy biased on Mclarens, they want them to win. remember Hamilton running out of gas on qualifying?
The only penalty is like 10,000 lolz!
And now overtaking the SafetyCar, they give him a 5 second penalty 20 laps later lol!
What ever happened to Schumacher when he overtaken Alonso during the Monaco GP? 20 second penalty!
I think Alonso is more angry with himself for not sitting up hamilton butt and following through. But of course he'd never admit to making a mistake himself so has a go a hamilton.
Alonso and ferrari have got away with many situations when they should have been penalised, unlike mclaren which until this year rarely have.
either way even if hamilton had been given the penalty after only two laps he was already 16 seconds ahead and it wouldn't have affected Alonso in the slightest.
I watched the camera replay of the LH - SC overtaking, he only just broke any rules ( the end of the pit lane exit line came up that quickly ) by the looks of things and we get all this fuss about it. Personally, I think LH should stick his two fingers up at miserable Alonso and for that matter that anti British success, hyprocrite Nigel Mansell for his nasty comments about LH recently.
It's perfectly obvious why Alonso is unhappy to me:
-Hamilton BROKE the rules, whilst Alonso did not. Hamilton then BENEFITED from overtaking the safety car, despite his penalty. -Alonso feels (rightly) that he would have been better off overtaking the safety car, coming out in 3rd place, and then taking the penalty when it came, as opposed to following the rules and being stuck in 9th. -Alonso is also annoyed that Hamilton slowed so much when the safety car was deployed. If he had not slowed it is quite possible that both of them would have got through before the safety car.
Essentially Alonso has been VERY unlucky, and then watched the person in front of him break the rules and benefit from it. Some of Alonso's claims to seem like random moaning and throwing his toys out of the pram, and of course Hamilton didn't intentionally break the rules, but it just highlights not only the unfairness of safety cars but the stupidity of penalties where the punishment is significantly less then the benefit gained from committing the offence.
Because in the old days, the FIA would have been on the side of Ferrari but now the FIA bias has gone and they are more fair in their decisions. The same thing happened with Mark Webber early in the year where he took a drive through penalty and still retained his place (either first or second) so it can be done. Alonso has always hated Lewis because Lewis did better than Alonso when they were at McLaren together. Alonso acts like a spoilt brat when he can't get his own way and he was the same when he was at Renault. Lewis took his penalty which no arguement so Ferrari and Alonso should accept it and move on.