Anyone who thinks that they can understand the mindset of the FIA and race stewards is either a psychic or schizophrenic, because it is beyond the intellect of we mortals to predict or understand how penalties are applied in Formula One.

As the dust settled on an interesting and often exciting Malaysian Grand Prix, they saw fit to hand out 20-second penalties to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso for actually having the audacity to engage in some riveting wheel-to-wheel racing, something that we rarely get to see in this modern era.

Hamilton received his penalty for too many changes of direction on the main straight. They weren’t sharp changes of direction, he didn’t do it while Alon...

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Anyone who thinks that they can understand the mindset of the FIA and race stewards is either a psychic or schizophrenic, because it is beyond the intellect of we mortals to predict or understand how penalties are applied in Formula One.

As the dust settled on an interesting and often exciting Malaysian Grand Prix, they saw fit to hand out 20-second penalties to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso for actually having the audacity to engage in some riveting wheel-to-wheel racing, something that we rarely get to see in this modern era.

Hamilton received his penalty for too many changes of direction on the main straight. They weren’t sharp changes of direction, he didn’t do it while Alon...

Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - Motorsports
Article is property of BleacherReport.com