{"id":4660,"date":"2010-04-20T07:19:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2010-04-20T07:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:19:13","slug":"brundle-says-vettel-hamilton-button-deserved-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/brundle-says-vettel-hamilton-button-deserved-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Brundle says Vettel, Hamilton, Button deserved penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Martin Brundle has revealed that he would push for harsher decisions and penalties if he was a formula one steward.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So far in 2010, to give additional credibility to the officials&#8217; adjudications, experienced former drivers including Alain Prost, Johnny Herbert and Alex Wurz have acted as stewards at grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>But although Brundle argues that the &#8220;brutal and sometimes unfathomable penalties&#8221; of the recent past have now been eradicated, he thinks the stewards are now being too lenient.<\/p>\n<p>The former McLaren driver, a full-time commentator for British television since retiring in 1996, wrote in his BBC column that Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton should have been penalised for their pitlane stoush in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They both received a reprimand, but what does that mean?\u00a0 How long does a reprimand last and how many are you allowed to collect before a real penalty?&#8221; said Brundle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are lucky I wasn&#8217;t the resident driver steward for the weekend because I would have strongly recommended dropping them both some penalty places on the grid for the next race in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision taken has set a very dangerous precedent,&#8221; he charged.<\/p>\n<p>Brundle also said race winner Jenson Button deserved a penalty for unduly slowing behind the safety car prior to a race restart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have been a popular steward with my former McLaren team but that job is not a popularity contest.\u00a0 Ask any referee,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Brundle has revealed that he would push for harsher decisions and penalties if he was a formula one steward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5261,5340,153,154,322,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4661,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}