Maldonado slapped with ten place grid penalty for moment of madness
26 May, 2012
Pastor Maldonado paying the price for moment of madness
May 26 (Reuters) Pastor Maldonado’s chances of winning two Formula One races in a row suffered a huge setback when he was handed a 10 place grid penalty for Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix.
Race stewards, including Williams’ 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell, ruled that the Venezuelan had caused an avoidable collision in final practice when he cut in front of the Sauber of Mexican Sergio Perez.
Maldonado crashed a lap later, smashing into the barriers at the top of the hill in Casino Square and ripping off the right rear wheel as well as half the front wing.
The Venezuelan won the previous Spanish Grand Prix, for his first victory in Formula One and his team’s first in nearly eight years.
Perez, who crashed heavily at the other end of the tunnel during qualifying last year and spent the race Sunday in hospital, was furious and shouted over the radio: “Maldonado was crazy.”
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To all those who couldn’t even stand the “high speed” calculations of Formula 1 should not try to comment here. Or not even try to watch the race. If you think F1 is just a circus and is bad at it, maybe you should watch chess matches…
@john
It Was Not A 24 Place Penalty, It Was, ‘Only’, A 23 Place Penalty.
Even Simple Grid Math Continues To Puzzle A Lot Of People.
Go, HAMILTON !
@john you must be new here!
i think that the sport is quite crap now because maldonado and schumacher did far worse than what hamilton did only 5 and 10 places compared to hamiltons 24 place penalty
@USA
Then go and watch something else and stop complaining.
Maldonado has a hot head. He attacked Lewis Hamilton in Spa and he chopped Perez in Monaco. Chances are it was deliberate.
Senna had old tyres, and believe me, old tyres are bad tyres. A tyre that is over one second slower than the guy chasing you is a bad tyre.
Pastor has this attitude that he always have to retaliate on any given time! he doesn’t really have to do that…
What a load of crap. Maldonado did not go out on that lap to hit anyone. Also the tires were not bad on Senna’s car they were just older big difference.
Both Shcumacher and Maldonado made a mistake only I find Schumachers far worse because he outright ran into the back of a car in front of him. Maldonado just misjudged turning back in. I think both deserve penalties but the penalties have to be the same for both or Formula One loses all credibility.
I am of the opinion that Formula One is not real racing anymore, it is just a circus act and a bad one at that.
@USA1: This “accident” was NOT like Schumacher’s. Schumacher misjudged where a car on bad tires was going to brake – Pastor chopped the front off of another car deliberately. One was an accident, the other premeditated. Not the same at all.
This is what makes Formula One a total joke. he penalties for Schumacher and Maldonado are for the same type of infraction yet Schumacher only gets a 5 place penalty while Maldonado gets slapped with a 10 place penalty.
Formula One has no credibility.