F1 » Bourdais penalty gifts Massa extra point

Oops, let me clarify what I mean by corruption: Jean Todt is still CEO of Ferrari and yet he is widely tipped to succeed Mosely as President of the FIA. To even think such a thing is unbelievable - how can he NOT be biased. Jean's son Nicolas is Massa'a manager. Mosely and Jean are close friends. All a bit nepotistic.
So, Hamilton makes a mistake. He overcooks it but its a racing mistake. Heikki also makes a mistake and taps Raikonnen off the track. All is a little out of line but still well within the rules of racing. But then Massa does something VERY stupid. His line is legitimately stolen and he does not have the sense to back off and try to regain later. In doing so he...

... does something that MUST be penalised. But hang on. If we penalise Hamilton for his racing move it will all balance out, no? Except that Massa has damaged Lewis's car. (Not the tyres - he damaged those himself). Then, and this is the good bit, Massa makes a further mistake (check the replay, he does not even look) against Bourdais and comes off worst. Because he came off worst he has inadvertently offered the stewards a way to transfer the blame to Bourdais and give Massa another point. That way he might just win the championship, Nicolas Todt will be happy and so will Jean and so will his good friend Max. But then he would be, as he ordered the stewarads to help Massa win at all cost.

hmmmmmm 25 second penalties after the race seem to be a new thing this ye**** how strange when they both involve Ferraris moving up the scoreboard. but its not a conspiracy though is it ??

The earlier penalties against Hamilton and then Massa were fully justified but that against Bourdais is simply ridiculous.

It's coming down to a race of lawyers and politics. Ron Dennis needs to start working that angle - Ferrari clearly has an advantage in this area of the "sport".

Finally I watch it carefully. My conclusion is "This is not Massa fault and it is not Sebastian fault. It is pure on track fight to fight, so it should be no 25 second drifted for Sebastian. He deserve 3 point and Massa deserve 1 point. C''mon Steward, please don''t make this sport bad to watch. Or looks like Ferrari favorable in your sight. Or makes us, Ferrari supporter feels that it might be something to take Ferrari kind of Red Evil Team!"

This is all very strange given that in the pre-race briefing Charlie Whiting reminded everyone that the person exiting the pit lane has the right of way - He is the race director and I can't understand why he has no say in subsequent racing decisions.

The stewards made their decision based on Bourdais supposedly ignoring the blue flashing light in the pit lane indicating a faster car approaching. But he was racing for position with that faster car so was quite right in maintaining the racing line.

When the investigation was announced it seemed obvious that Massa would be the one under scrutiny and even then I would have called it a racing incident - no penalty required.

What a farce!

I cannot see why Bordais was penalised when Massa ran into him as he was not blocking
Massa as he came out of the pits. I am just so disappointed at the obvious bias by the race stewards

And why wasn't Massa penalised for for crossing the white line at the pitlane exit when overtaking Webber?

It looks like Lewis will not be allowed to win the championship unless he drives one of those red pieces of crap.