John F. Coulthard

Deepak

To me, Vettel's move on Button was reckless. He diylpased very poor judgement of the state of the track, sufficient that he would have ruined his own race whether Button had been present or not. It wasn't the overtaking attempt that doomed Sebastian, it was driving without due care and caution on a track that was becoming gradually more difficult to drive upon.It didn't make that much difference to his race that Button was in the way, yet Button was removed nonetheless. Such is what happens when very poor judgement occurs in the presence of innocent parties, and it is probably the main reason why the FIA has a penalty system in the first place. If innocent parties got regularly removed from races (or had them seriously damaged) by guilty ones, it would discourage people from bothering to respect the natural rules of the race and, especially, the artificial ones imposed by the FIA to bring further order into the races. Without respect of rules, most drivers and teams will not want to be present in F1, let alone race there.Hopefully Vettel will learn from this and increase his awareness of the circuit when conditions are changing. If he can do that, better overtakes from him should follow suit. In that case, the penalty will not only have improved his general driving standard, but increased his ability to overtake. The key, though, will be for Vettel to remember that this penalty is effectively for low awareness (the thing that caused the accident) rather than for attempting to overtake (a necessary but insufficient component for this accident to happen).

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