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        Checo got a sporting advantage. Norris didnt

        What about “judge the infraction, not the outcome” that gets repeatedly quoted when somebody was suffering a big crash but the guilty driver gets only 5 secs or so? Starting infraction is starting infraction.

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          When a driver speeds in the pit lane during practice they only get a fine but when they speed during the race (when they gain a sporting advantage) they get a time penalty and it’s the exact same infraction. You say starting infraction as if the two cases are the same but they’re not.

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            When a driver speeds in the pit lane during practice they only get a fin

            Maybe bring up that example when Norris runs a red light in free practice, not during the race session.

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        Norris created a potential dangerous situation for Stewards, much worse than a sporting advantage.

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    Kind of a weak fine if you compare it to Verstappen’s 50.000 fine for touching a rear wing a couple of years ago.

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    Man there’s a lot of xenophobic conspiracy theorists in this comment section lmao

    Didn’t know Johnny Herbert was the secret god-emperor of the FIA and F1 either, that was news to me

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    It’s understandable that things get tense at the end of this season and there is a lot of drama going on, but please be civil and respectful to each other. Discussion is great but no insults / xenophobic remarks as it does not lead to anything but frustration.

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    Should’ve been a usual starting infringement 5s penalty. Stewarding has been awful this weekend.

    This reminds me of Baku a few years ago where basically everyone aside from Hamilton ignored yellow flags, and rather than punish everyone who broke rules (that are of course in place for safety reasons!), they had an attitude of “well, if enough people do it we won’t punish them”.

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      Stewarding has been awful this weekend.

      Johnny Herbert was a steward again, so that was kind of expected.

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        Hello? Just ignoring all the stuff that goes in Max’s way?

        He has the right passport 🇳🇱

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        17 days ago

        He was last week and it was mostly fine, aside from Max not being punished for T8, which was actually a more egregious incident than his T4 antics.

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    Formula 1 has become a joke. If a driver would do the same in a karting championship, they would be instantaneously disqualified.

    Norris has the right passport 😜

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      Stop with the passport conspiracy nonsense, FFS.

      It doesn’t even make sense. Someone with that same passport got a championship taken from them by the race director, then threatened with legal action, then threatened with expulsion from F1 over a damn nose stud.

      Shit, in this very race Ollie Bearman got a 10s penalty.

      Tsunoda and Lawson also aren’t British but did the exact same thing.

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        Of course it does not make sense. It was a reference to what Max said, and I added a smiley.

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          Yeah it makes zero sense. It’s a dumb conspiracy theory that people love to parrot whenever “their” driver has any problems.

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          Of course it does not make sense.

          In pretty much every international sporting competition, the referees are from countries other than the competing teams/athletes. Football, boxing, you name it. It’s part of rules to maintain impartiality and fairness in the matches. Englishman Johnny Herbert being part of the stewarding team to judge over English teams and athletes would be a scandal in every other sport’s world championship. This weekend a German ADAC higher-up was also part of the stewarding team. I have no idea about his impartiality regarding Mercedes or Nico Hülkenberg and there shouldn’t be any questions regarding impartiality based on nationality. That’s precisely why others sports have such rules.

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            F1 has people from many countries in it. I don’t know why you’re pretending that the stewards are always British.

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              you’re pretending that the stewards are always British

              I don’t. I literally wrote that one of the four steward this weekend was German. Unlike you I actually looked up the nationalities but you also proved beforehand that you rather go on pro-English vibe than actual research when claiming that the front row is not treated differently when running red lights.

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                You’re acting like Johnny Herbert/Brits make the decisions. Complete bullshit.

                Pro-English? How am I pro English? Prove it. I’m not even English.

                You on the other hand are a xenophobe complaining about people’s nationalities for no reason, and perpetuating a dumb xenophobic conspiracy theory.

                Tell me how it is acceptable for a French or Japanese driver to run over a marshal but not an English one. This should be good.

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        Someone with that same passport got a championship taken from them by the race director

        Do you mean the race when that English person could earlier cut a corner, overtake off the track, gain a massive advantage, and then later had to only lift off the throttle a bit which was then “the advantage was given back”?

        Tsunoda and Lawson also aren’t British but did the exact same thing.

        No, they didn’t because the weren’t in the front row.

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          Do you mean the race when that English person could earlier cut a corner overtake off the track, gain a massive advantage, and then later had to only lift off the throttle a bit which was then “the advantage was given back”?

          Hahaha, you mean when he was pushed off track and had to take evasive action to avoid a crash? Then backed off the accelerator to negate any advantage he got from being shoved off the track, a situation that was entirely caused by Max in the first place, who was desperate for a crash that would secure the championship?

          Lmao you cannot be seriously defending AD2021 and pretending you aren’t enormously biased, Mr Dutch-Username

          No, they didn’t because the weren’t in the front row.

          Ah, I forgot that safety regs only apply to P1 and P2. Silly me. I must have missed that FIA regulation. Can you point it out to me so I can read up on it?

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            Lmao you cannot be seriously defending AD2021 and pretending you aren’t enormously biased, Mr Dutch-Username

            I’m not Dutch, nor do I have a Dutch user name. Can’t even get your xenophobia right. OTOH your affiliation:

            Ah, I forgot that safety regs only apply to P1 and P2. Silly me. I must have missed that FIA regulation. Can you point it out to me so I can read up on it?

            Yes, follow up Tweet quoting the stewards’ decision:

            Maybe should have clicked on the linked source instead of making stuff up. The answer was right there a mere 40 minutes after the first Tweet.

            Also several racing directives are secret under NDA. The FIA knows them, select individuals from the teams know them, journalists and therefore the public don’t know them. the-race.com could recently only quote a few sentences in a follow-up podcast to the recent discussions about overtaking rules because those were leaked to them.

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                Yes it is Dutch, moron.

                It’s not Dutch, it’s German. Different country, different language. Also your need for insults shows how desperate you are. You know you don’t have arguments on your side.

                We get it, you only want rules applied to British drivers. It’s ok if a Frenchman or a Japanese person drive into a marshal apparently.

                Me? I quoted what the stewards said and in their decision they said that the front row has a higher responsibility. Don’t shoot/insult the messenger. Take it up with them if you disagree.

                I’m blocking you now. I don’t need to put up with your insults.