[Gilles]

Als ik daar kon geraken mocht je mij ook inschrijven als verdediging van Schumacher ... ik citeer even de mening van "Masta", iemand wiens mening ik deel:

Mosquito is een erudiete en belezen f1fan, met een uitgesproken voorkeur voor JPM. Ik lees vaak zijn posts op het atlasf1 forum. Zijn voorlopig laatste post is eigelijk de beste verwoording van ook mijn beleving.

Originally posted by Mosquito
Well, I have mixed feelings about the incident. The Bridegestones are inferior in such SC situations to the Michelins. The BS don't work well when going well below normal op temps, so it's logical for MS to try to get the heat back into the tyres, and at the same time burse the temps of his brakes. What I don't get is why he had to do it (of all places) in the tunnel.

I'm guessing here, but I think Schumacher was doing one of his start-stop routines, one we saw a few years ago being Button become the victim of.

That all said, I do think JPM deserves a large portion of the blame as well. On the pit audio, he was told by the team that he 'might try to unlap himself' on the restart. That sounds first of all over opportunistic, and a team bull-tying Montoya's cojones to try and outsmart MS isn't exactly the most intelligent of moves. Next, he should have kept himself safe. Fast acceleration and hard braking is not really that unusual, so he should have anticipated what MS was doing. I guess JPM got caught out and was totally out of sync with MS' moves.

So, in blame, I'd say it's 70% JPM, 30% MS.

The real issue is that any SC situation will be a potential risk in it's current form. A solution could be to dictate a strict formation untill the restart, but that in itself will lead to other risks of crowding cars on the restart.

Oh well, it's going to provide us debating ground for at least weeks to follow.