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Lovely bit of hyperbole. Nice. As much as I personally believe the FIA should have given a harsher penalty, the fact is that the Tribunal process can take months. It could easily have lead to the final race of the season being complete but no one actually knowing who won the WDC until much...

Over react much in here? As much as the FIA have been lenient here, they've also been exceptionally clear that any repeat in future will be dealt with harshly. Todt's essentially put Vettel on indefinite probation without the FIA actually needing to go through the process and put it formally in...

IIRC it's no too late for them to do that. A more likely result would be a race ban from an upcoming race should they decide that what he did warrants exclusion from a race result. I suspect what we'll see will be a 10 place grid penalty, as that's far less likely to have Ferrari dragging them...

From what I'm seeing they've reopened the Vettel penalty situation and will reassess on basis of his history. In particular they may be thoroughly unimpressed with his failure to admit fault and that being a pattern of behaviour they want to squash.

It does as per the rules. I happen to agree that it was a "lash out" and that it deserved a heavier punishment. But I also understand that the stewards have to act within the scope the rules allow them to act and must also be able to reasonably justify their decision. With that in mind, in this...

I think in this instance the stewards probably decided that the swerve couldn't be proven to be deliberate. Given he had hands off the wheel gesticulating, it's entirely plausible that he simply didn't realise he'd moved the wheel so as to cause the swerve and subsequent contact. Well, the...

On a completely separate note: Jean Todt has no influence on the actual day-to-day running of F1. He's deliberately stayed hands-off mostly, and when he does get involved it's at a very high level. There's absolutely nothing to find in terms of conspiracy theories of Todt's Ferrari history...

Formula 1's been through a few eras, especially in the really early days. So for clarity, I'm talking about the F1 era as governed by the Concorde Agreement (and it's successors) that came in from 1981. I know that way back in the days of front-engine, non-wing, cars that the manufacturers could...

There was never 40 cars in a race. There were a few races here and there that may have had 40 entries at the start of the weekend, but the grid has always been capped at 26 cars. Whenever they had more than 26 enter, they had pre-qualifying sessions to weed out the slowest cars. I also don't...