In the round-up: Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says he accepts the stewards’ decision not to penalise Max Verstappen for impeding Romain Grosjean.
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What they say
Steiner was asked if he was OK with the stewards taking no action against Verstappen for the incident:
Even if it’s not OK, what can I do? It’s difficult circumstnaces. If you’re in the spray of somebody else, you don’t see anything, you don’t see your mirrors.
It’s not sportsmanship you need to report it they take a decision and you are good with it. I would not go there and demand a penalty for somebody who did something. I would fight for something if they give us a penalty for something which we think we havent been guilty of. That is the way to fight it. But I would never go and accuse ‘oh he did wrong,’ because if he gets a penalty it doesn’t do me any good but it hurts him. I keep out of that one.
I wouldn’t go there and try to say ‘oh Verstappen needs to get a penalty’. that doesn’t make me happy. We need to get better and beat him.”
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
A lot has been said over the last 24hrs about the events surrounding @ForceIndiaF1. All I can say is that I have never known of such a united group of people, more akin to a family than workmates. Far from being our darkest hour, it will be our defining moment! #NewBeginnings
— Andrew McLaren (@McLarenAndy) July 28, 2018
Really feel for all at Force India. The commitment & dedication it takes from everyone at any F1 team to keep things going, let alone have any success, is way beyond the norm of most industries. Very minimum they all deserve is to know they'll be paid & have a secure future.👊
— Marc Priestley (@f1elvis) July 28, 2018
Huge respect for everyone at @ForceIndiaF1 Team this morning, walking into the Paddock with an unknown future, but with a stride that says they are ready for the challenge of this weekend – and whatever comes their way. Huge respect for them all. #F1Family #F1
— James O'Brien (@voxvocis) July 28, 2018
There’s obviously far more to it than just this, but Force India’s financial plight after establishing itself as best of the rest in #F1 in recent years shows how out of hand the team payouts (prize money) has become. Shame on those behind the current structure
— Glenn Freeman (@glenn_autosport) July 27, 2018
Alonso was asked which of Zak Brown's cars he'd most like to own.@ZBrownCEO: "Don't give him any ideas!"@alo_oficial: "It's a good question. I will see the menu…" #F1 #HungarianGP
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) July 28, 2018
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Early exits in Budapest qualifying (Force India)
"We had an issue with the brakes that held us back. I pitted for slicks when the track was improving and my brake pedal went long."
Hungarian GP qualifying (Toro Rosso)
"When I saw the rain coming before Qualifying I thought there could be an opportunity, and the result of P6 is just incredible, especially after the tough few weekends we've had, it's really an unbelievable result for the team."
Hungarian GP, Saturday (Renault)
"There was an issue with the fuel bowser which meant we didn’t have enough fuel in the car at the start of Q2, so we lost time when the track was at its best."
Hungarian GP qualifying (Williams)
Lance Stroll: "Unfortunately pushing in the wet I just lost the car and that was it. In the rain that is how it goes, you are pushing and looking for grip and sometimes it bites back. It was just unfortunate it was there at turn 10 as there was a wall on the inside, or it could have just been a spin and I could have kept going."
Louise Goodman (Motorsport Days)
"Luckily for me, I never had the thankless task of managing Kimi Raikkonen’s PR, although I often had the unenviable job of trying to get a usable quote out of him when I was ITVs Formula 1 pit lane reporter."
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Comment of the day
Sergio Perez deserves credit for how he handled the Force India situation, says NickF1:
Perez pretty much built Force India success : superb car development, multiple podiums, sponsors and never mind competitive drivers or ask for preferential treatment and at the end of the day mostly outperformed them.
Perez loves this team, he won’t have any problem getting substantial sponsorship to make this efficient team a top team.
NickF1 (@Nickpkr251)
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faulty (@faulty)
29th July 2018, 1:27
It can’t be said enough.
Let’s go team Silverstone, let’s go you lovable lot!! Come on, show them that in spite of all that that needn’t be known, you’ve been the people’s champions two years running!!
Nin13 (@nin13)
29th July 2018, 6:14
@faulty Mercedes? They are based in Brackley?
Jere (@jerejj)
29th July 2018, 6:50
@nin13 He’s obviously referring to Force India since they’re based in Silverstone.
faulty (@faulty)
29th July 2018, 18:29
He’s obviously attempting to sarcasm since it’s the latest rage among the kids these days.
Toxic
29th July 2018, 2:17
Gleen Freeman’s tweet is spot on. This is the 4th best team on the grid for past few years and yet it counts for nothing financially. This is utter rubbish. Also, whoever tries to blame anything on Perez is delusional. He was their top driver for the past seasons against very strong teammates and it’s thanks to his sponsors this team could operate and be so successful.
JohnH (@johnrkh)
29th July 2018, 4:53
I agree just move on.
ColdFly (@)
29th July 2018, 9:46
But Steiner earns major kudos for this and a credit in his ‘fairness bank account’.
jabbadap
29th July 2018, 11:09
Yeah imagine if the drivers were reversed on that situation. the wining of Horner would be unimaginable annoying.
George
29th July 2018, 10:33
I also agree. But when I look at the Austrian situation between Sainz and Vettel, I get the feeling that Max gets the preferential treatment again. If Max can’t see trough his mirrors, it’s about identical to Vettel not being able to see due to corners and elevation changes… I guess the stewards can’t undo erroneous decisions, so let’s move on.
TribalTalker (@tribaltalker)
29th July 2018, 11:37
Ferrari can plan for “corners and elevation changes”, the layout of each track is a very well known quantity.
Water spray is just not something you can engineer a mirror to see through.
So it really isn’t “about identical” at all.
Patrickl (@patrickl)
29th July 2018, 13:56
This is not about seeing or not seeing. Verstappen was starting up his own hot lap. In fact he had to abandon his hot lap before that because he was impeded himself. Do you hear Horner complaining about that one?
The difference the stewards made is this impeding was not “unnecessary”. If a slower driver is on his hot lap and impedes a faster car, how can that be worth a penalty?
Verstappen had nowhere to go. He had his own hot lap impeded. Needed to do a new one and couldn’t go faster because he needed a gap to start his own second attempt at a hot lap. So what was he supposed to do? Abandon yet another hot lap?
This is completely different from a driver driving back slowly to the pit and not paying attention at all to what’s is happening around him. That is worth a penalty for impeding. Starting your own hot lap is not.
Jere (@jerejj)
29th July 2018, 6:51
I agree with the COTD.