I've stayed away from this topic because I am ad admirer of Lauda, I followed his career from, say, 1976, onwards. And I think he is dead wrong including this particular incident at Silverstone in his little jihad against 'too many rules'.
It took me a couple of days, and I've come to the conclusion WHY Lauda is wrong - about the incident at Silverstone and the perceived 'nannyness' of the rule (to give it a name). And that is that drivers of this era, spoilt as they are with a twenty year span of no driver-fatalities, do not show the responsability to drive without 'nanny'-rules.
The idiotic block of Trulli in Canada that drove Kubica onto the grass in my honest opinion and almost killed him at Canada 2007, the murderattempt of Schumacher against Barrichello at Hungary 2010, (after his return, which showed something!), the fact that Raikkonen at Silverstone 2014 just happily flies of the track, and goes full throttle back on the track when there are his friends and co-drivers in close proximity... those are just a few examples of the total lack of self-control and adult driving behaviour that Lauda would never have shown in his days.
Yes, Lauda would sometimes chop someone, pull a dirty trick here and there, but if he has ever done something like Raikkonen in his whole career, as stupid, selfish, braindead and totally idiotic, I will eat a... spamsandwich.
Edited by Nemo1965, 11 July 2014 - 17:22.