Massa grid error prompts FIA probe

gav Wrote:
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> > Or a car behind could have got a run on Massa.
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> How exactly would that happen? He was well clear
> of everyone bar Webber. It's not like he jumped
> the start - he was only 1 metre further forward
> than he should have been - his start itself was
> totally unaffected. :\

Yep but who knows what would have happened had he started in the right place This is what I mean.

The video has now gone but I think that is wrong as it was recorded by someone seeing the race.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2010 08:41PM by marcl.

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Yep but who knows what would have happened had he started in the right place

He'd have been a metre further back.

This isn't like Hamilton at Valencia, with the whole "where would he have been had the stewards not been having a siesta". It's clear cut. He'd have been a metre further back than he was. How could it possibly be different? :\

I agree with Gav, lol.

He should have been punished at the time for a rules violation, but it didn't actually make a difference. In a way he's kinda lucky he didn't otherwise this'd be big deal.

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Same thing happend in Monaco with Rubens Barrichello. When he crashed his car he throw out the steering wheel on the track were a HRT droven over it. But with all the things happend when MS did his overtake move under the safety car they all forget about Rubens and he got away with it.

So a penalty now when the FIA didn't even see it in the first place would be unfair in my opinion.

Its interesting the impact the fan video has had on this situation, just like in Fuji 2007.

Webber also missed his grid box in Bahrain (Legard noticed it), and yet there was no penalty or investigation - possibly due to the fact that there wasn't any definitive proof, like there was with the YouTube video in this case.

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problem is, is there a penalty for that, does that exists?
i remember back in 2001, Malaysia.. Fisichella couldn't get his car in his starting box, so they did another formation lap and started the race... no penalty or anything...

Fia, Stewards, and people in charge apparently didn't notice Felipe's problem, so they couldn't reorganize the grid.... but technically a penalty doesn't exist for that anyway



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/2010 07:43PM by Slash.

wasn't fisichella on completely the wrong side of the grid though?

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I'd just leave it if I was a steward...he didn't gain anything from it so there's not much they can do. A small fine is probably the biggest punishment.

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He ended up parked in the middle, diagonally across the track.

The best bit is that he's (Fisichella) done it twice - I can't remember where the other instance was though.

As I remember Fisichella did have to start from the back of the grid for the Sepang one.

Sepang 2003 was the other time he did it I believe, although he managed to reverse it back into the right slot that time.

its not so hard. make him start 2 metres back in Monza and problem solved

gav Wrote:
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> > Yep but who knows what would have happened had
> he started in the right place
>
>
> He'd have been a metre further back.
>
> This isn't like Hamilton at Valencia, with the
> whole "where would he have been had the stewards
> not been having a siesta". It's clear cut. He'd
> have been a metre further back than he was. How
> could it possibly be different? :\

For all we know there could have been something on the track etc.

All I am saying is people say it made no difference but who really knows.