2014 Grand Prix du Canada

[MUSC4EVER]

Battle between Hulk Vettel and Bottas...

 

[Dodzzz]

Nico nico, once a cheater always a cheater..

 

[CAMikaze]

Tweet from @ClubForce: Tyre management masterclass - both Nico and Checo are setting their fastest laps of the day on 26-lap-old tyres!

 

[jtv90069]

Anyone see what Maldonado hit?? There appeared to be damage and he has retired.

 

[BHRxRacer]

As far as I know the whole line judge at the wall of champions was there for qualifying, not the race. There are no known penalties for this offense. He did gain an advantage, although a small one, but it happened many times before.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Anyone see what Maldonado hit?? There appeared to be damage and he has retired.

Everything else, I imagine... but no, I was wondering that. As long as we don't have to listen to a 4-minute Kravitz W**k I'd like to find out

 

[CarBastard]

Has Nico suddenly become a dummy? He's not driving overly fast, yet he's burning through his fuel and his tyres, and I dont even want to get into that chicane-cutting thing. His next lap should be invalidated!

Perez and Hulkenberg doing a great job!

 

[CAMikaze]

As far as I know the whole line judge at the wall of champions was there for qualifying, not the race. There are no known penalties for this offense. He did gain an advantage, although a small one, but it happened many times before.

The inside of the last corner at Montreal could use a few sausages like what's at Le Mans.

 

[dhandeh]

Anyone see what Maldonado hit?? There appeared to be damage and he has retired.

What makes you think he hit something, Pastor never hits anything.

 

[Wiegert]

Final warning for Rosberg, but no penalty. Hamilton's good to chase him down again. Even he deserves that spot after what happened.

 

[Peter.]

Clearly Rosberg was driving on Fuji Speedway 90's in GT4 last night.

And he gets away with cheating.

 

[86Debris86]

No penalty for Rosberg. Cue anger...

 

[ZEROX]

No penalty for Nico as told by Hammy's engineer.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Did I just hear no penalty for Rosberg??

 

[SpeedyishOlly]

Anyone see what Maldonado hit??

Rock bottom.

 

[Ninners]

No action. Rosberg has front vibrations and has to save some fuel.

 

[lbsf1]

NO PENATLY FOR ROSBERG!!

What on earth, he gained an advantage by going off track, that means a penalty????

 

[NotThePrez]

No penalty for Rosberg. Final warning from race control, however.

 

[niky]

If you compare Vettel to Nico at the first corner you can see that Nico could have been tighter if he wanted to be, he ran that wide on purpose. As I said before, its borderline on whether he should have given him room.

Nico definately should get penalised for that however, he used the shortcut to gain an advantage whilst not position it was a time advantage. Perfect opportunity for the 5 second pit stop penalty.

As he's coming off the apex, though, he's not obliged to. This is an area of the rules you can exploit defensively.

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As for the off that gained him time... he definitely should have gotten a five second penalty for that. Very lucky he didn't.

 

[MHPALA]

I call BS

 

[TenEightyOne]

Rock bottom.

Maldonado, not Chilton

 

[Dhalism]

i think no penalty sets a bad precedent. Now everyone should take advantage of this new elongated straight.

 

[CinnamonOD]

Perez' tires have 50-something laps? what?

He supposedly used that set in practice

 

[CAMikaze]

"Nico, Lewis has more rearwards brake balance than you. Do you understand the message?

 

[Ninners]

He gained a good 0.6 from that, surprised really.

Force India 1 stop it seems.

 

[dhandeh]

If Lewis does get in front, then he should straightline that chicane, just for giggles.

 

[TenEightyOne]

i think no penalty sets a bad precedent. Now everyone should take advantage of this new elongated straight.

The penalty is cumulative, Nico's had his second warning I believe. Which is irritating as I've found myself to momentarily be a Hamilton fan.

 

[CarBastard]

Checo is a genius with the tyres. He used the super softs all the way up to here and now he's on tyres that'll allow him to go until the end. Here's hoping he adds some spice to the race.

 

[Akmuq]

If Hulk stays out a little while more, Force India could get 3rd and 4th.

 

[lbsf1]

As he's coming off the apex, though, he's not obliged to. This is an area of the rules you can exploit defensively.

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As for the off that gained him time... he definitely should have gotten a five second penalty for that. Very lucky he didn't.

He isn't obliged to, however if Hamilton didn't move and Nico hit him it would look like Nico's fault??
It wasn't against regs what he did, however it won't do any good for team mate relationships, in the same way Bahrain didn't.