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From Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault motorist and BBC Radio 5 Live commentator
Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, that abandoned Renault is a part of the BBC staff and offers insight and analysis from the perspective of the competitors.
Charles Leclerc drove beautifully on to acquire the Italian Grand Prix – for pushing Lewis Hamilton off the road in the second 30, but that must happen to be nominated.
Actually Leclerc got away with this has abandoned governing body the FIA, the race stewards and the race manager in an uncomfortable Rubik’s cube of a tangle.
Let us begin with the truth.
Leclerc forced Hamilton off the street in the zone to the chicane on lap 23, as Hamilton attempted a movement. This is undeniable.
Hamilton kicked the grass in his evasive actions up as left handed behind and the Ferrari proceeded across, and was forced to reduce the chicane.
Firstly, this is not reasonable racing out of Leclerc. The principles dictate that in these situations motorists must leave a car’s width of space for their opponents, especially in the braking areas, in which they’re in full charge of their automobile’s positioning, unlike in the apex or exit, where small slides may lead them to deviate from their original and intended trajectory.
Leclerc moved into the correct while he was braking and forced Hamilton. Hamilton couldn’t do anything about it, other than to go off and cut on the corner as he was on the limitation of the wheels and couldn’t back out from alongside the Ferrari man or to wreck Leclerc. Nor should he have needed to.
This past year, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was penalised five minutes to get an indistinguishable infringement on Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas in Monza at turn , and it cost the Dutchman a podium.
With Leclerc, however, that the FIA brought out instead of keeping things constant, its most recent step. The warning flag that was black-and-white was rather shown by them to Leclerc.
Rush manager Michael Masi likens it to a card in football; but it nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
The race stewards are to investigate any incident, regardless of whether the flag is used by Masi. But in this case they required no actions.
Some have seen this as it being bottled by the stewards in Monza, surrounded by 100,000 or Italian fans wearing red, against a Ferrari, with a decision. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff along with also hamilton made a similar point after the race.
In my view, the decision was straightforward. Much as I did not need to observe a punishment, because it might have inevitably ruined the race, the principles are the rules and they must be adhered to.
This can be the equal of Manchester City of F1 and at the minute Raheem Sterling has been brought down in the penalty area and that the underdogs then have a man sent off.
Sureit destroys the match to give the punishment to City and reduce Palace to ten guys, but these are the principles. You can’t not do it as everyone would like to see a more balanced match for the 30 minutes.
And you especially can not give it also their 25,000 fans in the crowd will be unhappy along with as the sport is at Crystal Palace.
I found it uncomfortable watching Masi trying to explain the situation.
He said the resurrection of this warning flag that was grim was a measure caused at the request of those teams and drivers to permit for tougher racing.
But what precedent does this set?
It means drivers are permitted to commit one offence at a race and eliminate it. What type of racing is all that going to make? And is that moral or fair?
Verstappen got off with a suspicious move on Leclerc back in Austria for pushing motorists off the street on the exterior on the exit of the 35, and it has established up a new precedent. However, in many ways the situation of Verstappen was much easier to defend than that person from Leclerc.
Because Leclerc was granted only a warning, so it might seem drivers are permitted to force off each other to the outside in front of a corner.
If that is the situation, there’s a serious threat unless a car is pretty much ahead before really getting to the corner that the times of an overtake around the outside are well and truly over.
Masi went on to describe a further reason Verstappen could have been last year and Leclerc not this season was that season there was not contact and because last year there was.
On its surface, making some sense. But in fact there was no touch this time since Hamilton took evasive actions that is much better than Bottas failed in his position.
Actually, Bottas really had more distance compared to Hamilton did he did not budge and the incident ended in light contact.
That leads me to the next problematic situation – drivers may go searching for a little bit of touch on the outside, simply to prove to the FIA the absolute clear, and therefore receive a penalty for your aggressor who’s obviously contravening the rules.
With motorsport security coming back into the public eye after the passing of Anthoine Hubert in Belgium beneath F1 nose, what type of a statement is that?
It seems irresponsible or idiotic, or maybe both.
Wolff made this point following the race.
Asked if the black-and-white flag encouraged drivers carrying more liberties and started a can of worms, then he said:”There will be more touching. It’ll be more of a frequent practice. My view is it will go to the point that it will end up in a collision and then we’ll bale out again”
Wolff is perfect. Passengers will always do whatever they can to get an edge. If suddenly they can get away with shoving against another driver off the trail once they’ll do it. And when for another driver it is beneficial to have a little tap with the car near you, it will be looked for by them.
The issue using the flag is if just a yellow card for that specific offence, or it a card simply? The FIA claims that the former – that some driving offence would depend.
Leclerc’s next on-the-edge move came when, under further pressure out of Hamilton, he cut the chicane at turn one and then meandered the curved up directly of Curva Grande, with a sudden jink to the left as Hamilton appeared to get a run on him.
Hamilton backed out and ultimately lost his sanity, and it the aggressive defence of Leclerc halted another chance of a movement.
This moment, the actual cutting of this corner (which was investigated) was nice – Leclerc rejoined and clearly did not gain an edge.
Nevertheless, the sudden dip across the nose of Hamilton through the apartment outside Curva Grande corner (that wasn’t researched ) was once again right on the limit.
In isolation I probably could see this being allowed, as the lines this’ directly’ blurs . But with the background of this flag already deployed, this was potentially .
The problem to me is that the stewarding is inconsistent – a stage Hamilton made after the race.
The stewards have a tricky job to do, they take it seriously and they attempt to do it. But from the outside, sometimes, it may feel as though conclusions aren’t based on hurrying, but about the most likely popularity of this decision with the masses.
Back in China, Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat – nicknamed’the torpedo’ following a series of events a few years ago – was given a whopping predominate punishment in China for what seemed to be a pure racing episode when he collided with both McLarens on the opening lap.
Can Leclerc have received the exact identical penalty? I doubt it.
The fact is, Leclerc is a very popular driver. In actuality, I’ve never known a front-runner that was popular and currently race-winner than the Monegasque driver in my own time. Has plus the fact he pushes a car, that, had a bearing on the result this weekend?
In Canada, I applauded the FIA for sticking to its guns – and the rulebook – if committing Sebastian Vettel a penalty for a violation of rules if he rejoined the track after moving off and reevaluate Hamilton.
But since then the demand from the teams and drivers to’allow them race’ – that can be popular with the fans – has led to a problematic situation where it is hard to predict what their next choice will be, and also where consistency may appear to be in short supply.
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