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An article in this week's Autosport talks about the possible intorduction of penalty points for infringements on and off the track in F1. (I personally think off track penalties will open a can of worms and it should be restricted to on track offenses...but thats just me).
This would work like penalty points on a driving license, accumulate enough and you receivre a punishement. it comes about because the FIA dont have a good sysyem in place to punsish repeat offenders. at the moment three reprimands warrent a punishment, but it seems stewards are very reluctant to award the final reprimand that triggers this.
Drivers are in agreement with this idea in principal, but stress that first steward consistency must be achieved. even maldonado, who is this years worst receiver of punishements is in favour of the idea....if consistency is achieved.The drivers say they need to know wheat gets punished and what dosent, there is much confusion.Pedro De La Rosa will speak for the drivers when talking to Whiting about these concerns and will suggest a permanent stewarding panel....if this is not feasible then the stewards should be drawn from a pool of eight or ten.
This season there have been 62 penalties ranging from reprimand to race ban. Hamilton, still referred to in some quarters as too aggresive and the causer of crashes, has not received any, nor has Alonso. sixteen drivers have received penalties, eight haven't.
Here is the list of this years offenders.It may surprise some.
Maldonado (8)
Perez (5)
Vettel (5)
Schumacher (5)
Vergne (4)
Webber (3)
Pic (3)
Grosjean (2)
Senna (2)
Karthikeyan (2)
Kobayashi (2)
Massa (1)
Hulkenberg(1)
Kovalainen (1)
Petrov (1)
De La Rosa (1)
I think for me the biggest surprises were to see Vettel so high and Grosjean so low. But then i thought, most of Grosjeans infigements have been at the start of races and the stewards are generally more lenient at this point; when they did take action it was with a ban, and that was the first time this centuary that a driver has been punished for triggering a smash off the line.
Anyway, be interested to hear what people think.
This would work like penalty points on a driving license, accumulate enough and you receivre a punishement. it comes about because the FIA dont have a good sysyem in place to punsish repeat offenders. at the moment three reprimands warrent a punishment, but it seems stewards are very reluctant to award the final reprimand that triggers this.
Drivers are in agreement with this idea in principal, but stress that first steward consistency must be achieved. even maldonado, who is this years worst receiver of punishements is in favour of the idea....if consistency is achieved.The drivers say they need to know wheat gets punished and what dosent, there is much confusion.Pedro De La Rosa will speak for the drivers when talking to Whiting about these concerns and will suggest a permanent stewarding panel....if this is not feasible then the stewards should be drawn from a pool of eight or ten.
This season there have been 62 penalties ranging from reprimand to race ban. Hamilton, still referred to in some quarters as too aggresive and the causer of crashes, has not received any, nor has Alonso. sixteen drivers have received penalties, eight haven't.
Here is the list of this years offenders.It may surprise some.
Maldonado (8)
Perez (5)
Vettel (5)
Schumacher (5)
Vergne (4)
Webber (3)
Pic (3)
Grosjean (2)
Senna (2)
Karthikeyan (2)
Kobayashi (2)
Massa (1)
Hulkenberg(1)
Kovalainen (1)
Petrov (1)
De La Rosa (1)
I think for me the biggest surprises were to see Vettel so high and Grosjean so low. But then i thought, most of Grosjeans infigements have been at the start of races and the stewards are generally more lenient at this point; when they did take action it was with a ban, and that was the first time this centuary that a driver has been punished for triggering a smash off the line.
Anyway, be interested to hear what people think.
