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Originally Posted by rusnak
To me, the whole thing is sort of blown out of proportion. Ham slowed drastically enough to cause Vettel to lock his front wheels and still he collided with Ham. Vettel and Ham were barely moving when Vettel accelerated and bumped wheels with Ham.
These guys are the very best drivers in the world. They were in complete control of their cars. It's like watching two guys fencing, and taking a time to exchance insults and trimming petals off of each other's boutonnieres. Very entertaining, and hardly worth getting too worked up about.
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sorry, racing contact is one thing
But intentionally ramming is not done.
If either car had some minor stress fracture in one of those critical suspension linkages and arms.
And 10 laps later have that wheel or its suspension come ondone at 250kph.. killing or seriously injuring a driver, marshal or spectator, he would be charged and prosecuted.
In complete control is not the word i would use for somebody who rams another car like that. Under a yellow flag.
It's not race contact , while duking it out for position, and points. That i could understand, this , was not race contact, it was yellow flag.
Road Rage is the word, and with the money these guys make, you would expect a lot more control over their temper.
Hambone may be a bit of a dick in the way he did slow down.And perhaps they need to amend the rules to make sure that never happens again. Hell maybe he needs a 10 sec penalty for causing a potentialy dangerous situation under caution.
But what Vettel did, is inexcusable and deserves much more then 10 secs, it deserves a ban for a few races. There is NO room for such shenanigans in F1. It's not acceptable. Not under a caution.