Ecclestone: Vettel penalty 'wrong' and discourages fights
From: red5hilser (red5hilseraol.com)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:48:25 -0700 (PDT)
For one of he few tin my life, I have to agree with Bernie.  --  Bubba





Bernie Ecclestone has hit out at Formula 1's governing body the FIA by branding 
the penalty applied to Sebastian Vettel for this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix 
'wrong' – and a deterrent to drivers against getting involved in 
'wheel-to-wheel' duels.

The Red Bull Racing star was punished for just that – a wheel-to-wheel duel – 
in the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne last weekend, when he and BMW-Sauber 
rival Robert Kubica came together just three laps from the chequered flag as 
they disputed the runner-up spot behind Brawn GP's runaway winner Jenson Button.

The collision left both drivers with significant damage to their cars and cost 
them an appearance up on the rostrum. With Albert Park race stewards 
subsequently holding Vettel as the guilty party, the German – the top flight's 
youngest-ever grand prix-winner, following his incredible triumph for Scuderia 
Toro Rosso at Monza last September – will go into qualifying in Sepang knowing 
he has a ten-place grid penalty to take, thereby virtually destroying his 
chances of battling for the podium again.

“It was wrong,” F1 supremo Ecclestone argued in an interview with German 
magazine Auto Motor und Sport. “The poor guy is punished for an accident. He 
lost third place.

“If the rule is that you get punished for a collision with another driver, then 
soon we will have no more fights. We want to see more wheel-to-whe
el [duels], not less.”

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