Race bans
 

Surely after Hamilton's hamfisted efforts today the FIA needs to start looking at race bans. Hamilton whacked into Massa at the hairpin, backed everyone up into an accident which got the race red flagged and he's just pushed Maldonado off the track.

Let him watch from the pits for a race ffs.

He was clearly a tit in a trace today, but I'm not sure it was bad enough for a ban.

He needs a talking to but a race ban would be too harsh.

Agreed, he needs a ban to coll down.

But he was allowed to ruin how many people's races today?

I personally think that a message needs to be sent out. If you cause an accident or two you'll get a penalty, but if your driving is as bad as this you don't deserve to be in the car for the next race.

+1

If Schumacher didn't get a penalty for his dumbest-ever-manoeuvre on Barrichello on the Hungaroring, then I don't see why Hamilton should get one. A 20 second penalty looks likely, although he won't lose any positions over that.

A bad race from Hamilton no question, but no worse than Di-Resta Imo. As for backing up the cars to supposedly cause the accident.. I dont agree. How was that Hamilton's fault? He slows for a damaged car that is coming back across him and the car behind hits him.

Daft

There have been much, much better contenders for a race ban like Schumi defending Rubens in Hungary last year (though I don't fully advocate that example)

Yep.

That was ONE bad move though.

It would be fair to get a race ban for each case where he ended another driver's race, if he is deemed responsible for the accident.

Wasn't his first time, either. Did it to his own brother in Nurburgring in 2003

I see everyone is already blaming it on Schumacher. Did I miss him and Rubens driving into each other last year, or it just didn't happen unlike today's crappy showing by Hamy?!

I'm with you bro. And not just Hamster. Too much bumper cars today.

Wow. I'm glad some people here aren't stewards...

You can't blame Hamilton for the incident that brought out the red flag. They've just replayed the incident and Hamilton backed off because Sutil was going straight through the chicane in front of him. If Hamilton stays on the power he runs the risk of hitting the Force India. Hamilton did the only thing he could do and backed off. Unfortunately for us there were too many cars in the same place and we lost a great finish.

Oh come on, Sutil was hardly so close to Hamilton that he needed to back off so much. Hamilton backed off to avoid a potential accident and into one which was almost 100% guaranteed.
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Di Resta had a bad day. Should he get a race ban as well?

The only message a race ban will send is: "don't bother to attempt to overtake"

Which is not what we want. Unless we're going to see closed wheel racing in which case we could have a bit of argey bargey.

100% agreed, there was enough place to go round a very slow Sutil without the need to brake check the whole field inclusive the race leaders.

Looks like Hamy can't grow up.