Sauber: Kobayashi crashes, Perez penalised

21 comments on “Sauber: Kobayashi crashes, Perez penalised”

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   Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
   29th August 2011, 10:02

   Was Perez’s crash with Buemi shown? I don’t remember it, but I was very curious to see how his rear wing got broken like that. And even more curious to know how he got through Eau Rouge at full throttle with a compromised rear wing.
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      Magnificent Geoffrey (@magnificent-geoffrey)
      29th August 2011, 10:41

      Nope. FOM completely missed that it seems.
   2. 

      BasCB (@bascb)
      29th August 2011, 16:59

      It was the excellent FOM director who spared us any view of that incident, sadly
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      damonsmedley (@damonsmedley)
      29th August 2011, 18:42

      And even more curious to know how he got through Eau Rouge at full throttle with a compromised rear wing.

      It really was terrifying! Didn’t he gain on the driver ahead in the process, too?
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         wasiF1 (@wasif1)
         30th August 2011, 5:05

         They also didn’t showed us in the replay.
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            AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
            30th August 2011, 21:07

            We’re missing plenty this season it seems :/

            Half the time I don’t know if i’m just not paying attention or it’s not shown.
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   slr
   29th August 2011, 10:04

   Sauber’s strategies haven’t really worked in the last few races. Kobayashi along with Di Resta was caught out by the safety car also. If what Perez says is true, then the penalty sounds harsh. Generally I’d call Sauber unlucky in this race.
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      Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
      29th August 2011, 10:31

      It’s funny how Perez gets a questionble penalty and nobody questions it – but as soon as Hamilton gets a “questionable (read: any) penalty, the blog lights up with claims that there is a conspiracy amongst the stewards against him.
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         Klaas
         29th August 2011, 10:56

         Well, maybe that’s because Perez accepted the penalty and didn’t put a show in front of the media claiming that the stewards are racists.
         But generally people react at championship contenders receiving penalties as they influence it’s outcome. The midfield barely draws some attention – what difference does it make if some driver finishes 9th or 10th in the championship?
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            Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
            29th August 2011, 12:04

            It make all the difference to the driver in question. And no doubt to the team as well.
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               Klaas
               29th August 2011, 13:13

               Yes it makes all difference to the driver and team but less to most F1 followers who comment on this blog.
      2. 

         Jp
         29th August 2011, 13:26

         Two things come to my mind to answer this question:

         1) The fact that only Championship contenders normally get most of the attention/coverage

         2) Also the fact that this being a UK site, most of the people might have a Pro-Lewis bias (just as much as I have a pro-Perez bias and call his penalty a bit harsh) :D

         Cheers guys

         Jp
         1. 

            Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
            30th August 2011, 11:28

            I don’t know what you mean by “this bring a UK site”. This site is not designed for or aimed at people of any particular nationality.
      3. 

         TribalTalker (@tribaltalker)
         29th August 2011, 13:27

         It’s not funny at all.

         As any black person in the UK, US, mainland Europe, China, North Africa, Australia (and so on) knows, there’s lots of racism. Eventually you can get a bit paranoid. Hamilton only made a comment in jest – yet it gets turned around and thrown at him every time someone else gets a penalty! Enough.

         Let’s talk about Perez.
   2. 

      Fixy (@)
      29th August 2011, 14:43

      They’re staring in the top 10 more often now, and they could do well even without strange strategies. Let’s hope their bad luck stops.
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   Magnificent Geoffrey (@magnificent-geoffrey)
   29th August 2011, 10:40

   Pretty disappointing weekend to be honest. Especially after the team seemed so optimistic in the build up to the weekend. I’d love for the team to have one nice, boring, uneventful weekend in Monza where there aren’t any incidents or problems with qualifying or whatever so they can really get some solid points.
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   Sush Meerkat
   29th August 2011, 11:10

   Kobayashi continued and later said: “I knew perfectly well he was faster than me so had no reason to fight with him.” Hamilton accepted blame for the accident.

   Whats shocking (and apologies if I’m late to the party and someone has already said it), but Hamilton wasn’t faster then Kobyebashing… Hamilton had DRS open, Mercedes power and KERS yet the Sauber creeps up to him still.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/14701124.stm

   Thats good news for the Sauber Team heading into Monza.
   1. 

      LosD
      29th August 2011, 11:17

      This is seemingly because the Saubers ran an extreme low-downforce setup, in which case that is no surprise.
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      BasCB (@bascb)
      29th August 2011, 17:01

      Perez was quite fast as well, even with the damaged front wing, I think it was due to the Saubers running low downforce (as did Mercedes) and McLaren running far higher downforce to get a better total lap time together.
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         F1 98
         30th August 2011, 1:52

         Kobayashi had the damage front wing
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   AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
   30th August 2011, 21:11

   I’m glad Kobayashi kept his head down after the race. To me it was always a racing incident, but instigated by Hamilton.

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