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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (738)6/27/2010 6:14:37 PM
From: X Y Zebra  Read Replies (1) of 764
 
insult upon injury....

Timo Glock handed 20s penalty

27/06/2010

Timo Glock has been handed a 20s penalty following an incident in today's race when he was adjudged to have ignore blue warning flags.

In the latter stages of the race, when being lapped by the race leaders, the Virgin driver was involved in a battle with Bruno Senna. Despite
the fact that blue flags were waved warning him to allow the front runners through, Glock was adjudged to have ignored them.

The Stewards subsequently met with the driver and a team representative, considered the evidence and decided that there was a breach of
Appendix L, Chapter IV, Article 2 a) of the 2010 FIA International Sporting Code.

Normally the Stewards would have imposed a drive-through penalty but as this was being applied after the race 20 seconds are added to
Glock's elapsed time.

*** wow.....

20 seconds.... versus a FIVE seconds for a MUCH WORSE OFFENSE, i.e. Safety Car Infraction.... FAR more important than ignoring a blue
flag warning.... (and I am NOT diminishing the importance of the blue flag infraction)

here is the real deal:

The officials SCREWED UP handing a simple drive through penalty to Hamilton... therefore, they set the standard to penalized the rest of the
nine drivers that essentially committed a similar offense.... so had they penalized these drivers as they should have, they would have had to
revise the penalty against Hamilton, which were not about to do....

a sign of the times.... Idiocy is taking over all common sense.
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