I’m all for racing and the spectacle of great moves but I think Liuzzi’s attempted bonsai into the first corner on Sunday at Monza was grossly irresponsible. He had a great start and had already managed to make up places before running up the inside of Kovalainen, who was making a move himself on a number of other cars lined up across the track. That inside line quickly disappears at the pit exit and it was remarkably silly of him to believe that the cars line astern across the track would all move over to let him in. To suggest that he was squeezed out by Kovalainen on the starting straight of a GP when he was the one making a move into an obviously closing wedge of track with a car that is also competing for position is ridiculous. It becomes even more stupid when you consider that his race pace is a good second or two slower per lap than the group of cars he was passing and he would have been overtaken again within a lap or two. What was he hoping to achieve?
What he did manage to achieve was a hair raising backwards slide at high speed into Nico Rosberg and Vitaly Petrov, two drivers expected to perform well at Monza and certainly finish in the points. Reckless, dangerous and downright dumb. And what is the punishment? A five place grid penalty at Singapore. The Italian race stewards can’t be serious can they? What sort of penalty is that for a driver who is most likely to qualify at the back of the grid? The punishment does not fit the crime. Liuzzi should have been personally fined and reprimanded publicly. I’ve had enough of watching drivers do completely stupid things and then coming out in the press trying to blame everyone and everything apart from themselves.
If you missed the race here’s the footage of the start: http://youtu.be/Lmrflgn9sbc
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