Amy Casters judgement is not always a slam dunk.
In the case of the Australian Grand Prix, the former racing commentator, who is now a pundit for ESPN, has faced some criticism for her decision to award Hamilton a victory despite a mechanical fault.
If a driver has a technical fault and they have to stop and go and have a look at the car, we’ve never gone for it.” “
I’ve never done it in my career, but it is what it is.
If a driver has a technical fault and they have to stop and go and have a look at the car, we’ve never gone for it.”
In her opinion, the race was fair because it was not clear from the outset that Hamilton had an issue with the car and that the team had not been told about it before the race.
It was only after the race had ended that the stewards decided to award a penalty for the incident and Hamilton was given a three-place grid penalty for a failure to declare the car was in neutral.
“The whole thing was very frustrating,” Caster wrote.
“We then got the news that he had a mechanical issue and was not going to get a grid penalty, but instead we got a penalty of three places. “
“And so the whole thing is frustrating and unfair to Hamilton.” “
She also wrote that it was unfair for the race stewards to decide to penalise Hamilton, because they were the ones who had to assess the situation and decide on the penalty. “
And so the whole thing is frustrating and unfair to Hamilton.”
She also wrote that it was unfair for the race stewards to decide to penalise Hamilton, because they were the ones who had to assess the situation and decide on the penalty.
Caster has been criticised by some commentators for being critical of Hamilton, which she describes as a “personal attack”.
But Caster said she has a “strong belief” in the integrity of the sport and that she was not trying to cast a negative or unfair light on the sport.
“There’s a lot of people who don’t believe the race is fair,” she said.
“Some of them don’t even think there’s a penalty.
I’ve never been the sort of person who thinks it’s an attack. “
It’s not an attack on the integrity or the work ethic of the stewards.
In a statement on the ABC website, Caster added: “I was wrong to judge the car before the stewards even took over the race because I had been informed by the team that there were mechanical problems with the vehicle, and we’d been told it was a technical problem. “
If the team and the driver are not happy with the result, they can tell the stewards.”
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This led to the stewards deciding that the penalty should have been three places, and the result was still the same.”
