Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
I know sweet FA about F1, but watched the end and frankly I was completely puzzled by what happened. It seemed to me to be a complete travesty and as you say, I can't see Mercedes taking this on the chin. An utter shambles!
It was a double shambles, because firstly the rules applied correctly in that situation are unfair on a leader, and secondly the rules were appplied wrongly and even more to the leaders' disadvantage. AND there's a rule been found that basically says, 'forget all the actual rules, the race director can do what he wants'