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Thanks for posting this. That's a GREAT 10 minutes of racing. If you haven't watched it yet.... don't scroll down...
Boooooooooooo on Burgmeister. That's DIRTY. A little bump to loosen up the Porsche is NO reason to first run him into a wall and then intentionally spin him as you approach the finish line, causing your opponent to crash head-on into a wall. After the officials practically gave Burgmeister the win on the call on the pit-exit pass, giving him back the lead, Burgmeister should have known that even in an all-out drag race to the finish line, they would have given the place back to him for the bump on the last corner. But no, he plays REAL DIRTY and pulls that stunt. I hope he gets banned from racing for that. He was playing judge, jury, and executioner there, and Magnussen could have been killed.
Instead, they put them both on a 2-race suspension? WEAK.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...-on-probation/
That was weak on both their parts.
Chris
I managed to catch the last half hour of the race on TV. The GT2 battle was awesome.
That said, both of them were playing dirty. They should both have been DSQ'ed, and both of them should have been suspended for several races next season. Up until the last corner they had a nice, clean battle going on, and it was disappointing to see the race end that way.
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Originally Posted by altiain
I agree, it was a real nail-biter. The announcers totally called it too when they said he would give him a nudge on the last corner. Should Magnussen have done that? I don't think so. Was he way out of line in doing so? Not in my opinion. Should they have taken away the win if that's how Magnussen had come across the finish line first? IMO yes. Did it require the response that it got? NOT EVEN CLOSE.
I think the point I'm trying to make is that extreme retaliation in sports, as in life, should not be tolerated. Equal and opposite reaction, sure, I'll buy that. I don't agree that their punishments should be equal when their actions were clearly not.