Can't say I'm surprised.
Can't say I'm surprised.
He probably would have gotten a time penalty if he had continued on, but since he didn't finish the stewards automatically resort to grid penalties at the next race.
He still would have scored the podium if not for his tactical decision to keep places gained by corner cutting. But even so that would be 3 podiums for Perez vs 8 podiums for Bottas (or 7 if Perez had scored this podium), so Perez doesn't seem to be performing as well as Bottas over the season.
I agree. He has the aggressiveness but just lacks a bit of pace.JordanMugen wrote: ↑12 Sep 2021, 19:56Is anyone else confused by Perez's lack for race smarts, for a renowned racer? Especially when Perez made the same judgement twice -- not to immediately give the place back after cutting a corner, when most seasoned racers would immediately give the back and then get back on with racing. Most curious.
He still would have scored the podium if not for his tactical decision to keep places gained by corner cutting. But even so that would be 3 podiums for Perez vs 8 podiums for Bottas (or 7 if Perez had scored this podium), so Perez doesn't seem to be performing as well as Bottas over the season.
right. and I think they are planning to take a new PU in Sochi as well so he was going to start at the back anyway.
So one can argue that Merc succesfully poured sand in the mill of RB with their pushing for the wheel gun regulation change.
But the stewards have decided that it wasn't a racing incident. They have apportioned blame more to one driver than the other, hence the penalty.
Hamilton had a 4 second stop. Max 11. And Max was like 6 seconds ahead?TNTHead wrote: ↑12 Sep 2021, 21:15So one can argue that Merc succesfully poured sand in the mill of RB with their pushing for the wheel gun regulation change.
Still VER was after his 11 s pit stop very close to HAM after both pit stops. Does anyone know the lap time of the outlap of VER? That must have mega, otherwise the wouldn't be so close.
Christian Horner :Gillian wrote: ↑12 Sep 2021, 20:02I agree. He has the aggressiveness but just lacks a bit of pace.JordanMugen wrote: ↑12 Sep 2021, 19:56Is anyone else confused by Perez's lack for race smarts, for a renowned racer? Especially when Perez made the same judgement twice -- not to immediately give the place back after cutting a corner, when most seasoned racers would immediately give the back and then get back on with racing. Most curious.
He still would have scored the podium if not for his tactical decision to keep places gained by corner cutting. But even so that would be 3 podiums for Perez vs 8 podiums for Bottas (or 7 if Perez had scored this podium), so Perez doesn't seem to be performing as well as Bottas over the season.
With Checo, he was desperately unlucky and we felt it was very marginal given there was no instruction from the race office to give the position back. We had to make a decision whether or not to get on with the race, and so we got our heads down and then Checo was handed the penalty.