Mexican Grand Prix 2016

Mexico was in a word dramatic. Lewis Hamilton won the race keeping his title hopes alive , Nico Rosberg finished second also keeping his title hopes alive and Daniel Ricciardo finished 3rd in a rather twisted way. Although most the excitement was during the first 10 laps,the last 10 laps and after the race , there was a safety car when Gutierrez and
Wehrlein collided but it didn't make much of a difference.

Both the Mercedes had a run onto the grass , Hamilton especially going a little excursion and Rosberg had a rather small moment while fighting with Verstappen. Niki Lauda condemned Verstappen saying that he could have taken Nico out of the race and that he needs to realise that he's driving too aggressively. He also said "It's a Lost cause"(ouch).Both the Mercs were in a race of their own , oblivious to all the chaos happening behind them.

First of all Sebastian Vettel did an amazing 31 lap stint on the softs mind you Pirelli have given the upper limit for the softs as 22 laps. Redbull's gamble on the super-softs failed. Vettel managed to catch up Verstappen towards the closing stages. This is where all the fun starts.

So Vettel has closed in on Verstappen and Ricciardo is about 1 sec away from the pair . So Vettel finds the gap and dives down the outside and Verstappen runs wide. Traditionally drivers give up their place when such a thing happens and Max too was asked to give up the position unsurprisingly he refused .Meanwhile Ricciardo has managed to close up on Vettel , makes the move but Vettel defends it.
The chequered flags comes out with Max finishing ahead of Seb and Dan.

BUT Max is immediately slapped with a 5 second time penalty and is demoted to P5 and Vettel promoted to P3.
Here is where the controversy starts why was Hamilton not penalised for similar actions as Verstappen. Hamilton did go wide on Lap 1 ,Turn 1 and did "gain an advantage" So why was he not penalised ?

Now Sebastian Vettel "moved under breaking" when defending Ricciardo. He was hit with a 10 second time penalty and was demoted to P5 . It's ironic how Redbull protested against Vettel's move but when Verstappen moves under breaking "it's just great defending." Again FIA keeping up its impeccable record of inconsistency.

Sebastian Vettel swore , A LOT . He did swear at Charlie Whiting which was rude , but as soon as the race finished he personally went to meet with Whiting and apologised to him.
Journalists were making a big fuss out of it. J P Montoya who was there at Mexico for the race in known for being a hot head. So its not new Adrenalin is pumping , tempers are flaring and you may end up saying things you don't mean. Why did the FIA brodcast the message when they felt so insulted by it? Vettel told Montoya " I was using a lot of your language" . Vettel went too far with the Whiting but ..

Felipe Massa and Sergio Perez were fighting for what seems like an eternity. Massa eventually held onto P9. Valtteri Bottas almost broke the record for the fastest speed trap ever with a speed of 375.54 km/h He missed the record by a mere 0.5km.