Today's Brazilian GP.
At the start Ricciardo charges into T1 like a wild man, come down the hill out of control, runs off the track and pulls back on squeezing Vandoorne into Magnussen taking both of them out. Ricciardo continues. No action, no penalty.
Same lap, 4 turns later, Ocon takes a risk on the outside of Grosjean in the fast, tricky T6. Grosjean's car pushes the front end and collides with Ocon's racecar. Both leave the tack to the outside of the turn. Ocon is out for the day, Grosjean continues, safely re-entering the track. Grosjean gets a 10 second penalty.
I know officiating is not easy, not exact sometimes. But this seems wrong to me.
Any thoughts?
I didn't really think Grosjean should have been penalized... seemed just a racing incident to me. Both just fighting for position and the front tires washed out.
Didn't see Ricciardo's re-entry so i can't comment on that.
There is a video highlight on YouTube, cannot post it here due to copyright as it is the F1 Coverage team. For the video I am speaking about search 2017 Brazil Grand Prix: Race Highlights on YouTube
Thanks, for the link, i'd forgotten about that spin. After seeing the replay a few times, i think i'd agree with the no penalty ruling. I think he was pushed to the outside and then the curb or the closest inside car's front tire caused him to spin. It looks to me that if anyone was 'to blame' for the incident it would have been the black car to the inside. He went too wide and crowded the other two. Lesson... don't go three wide! LOL.
Watching the replay sure makes me appreciate the replay options that we have with iRacing. Different camera angles, stop action, step back... really nice.
While doing the race review last week I look for highlights from the replay while assembling the coverage. There is a point in race 2 PJ when you were really pressing Ralph hard rounding Hobbs corner at Okayama. I took a clip the action for the report and from the replay there was actually no contact based on views from all angles. I had to assume netcode which goes with the type of racing we do. Felt bad for Ralph but it did look clean and was likely a result of so many milliseconds and the program making a judgement.
Yeah, i felt really bad about that and apologized to him after. Seems like it was a '0 point' contact, but still bad... I was feeling my oats after Donal spent time practicing with me and increased my lap times a bit.
Normally i just sorta sit back and wait for others to fall off the track, but this time i went for the competition and bumped into Ralph. Did ok after that until i spun on the final lap. DOH!
Racing incidents. If we want to see racing we have to be vary careful where we go with judging and penalising every contact and off track. what F1 needs is constancy in incident rulings or just let them race!