Schumacher about Vettel's penalty
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Vettel, driving for Red Bull, apologised to his team and BMW's Robert Kubica for the crash near the end of the 2009 season opener.
The 21-year-old was also quoted by media as calling himself "an idiot", and it is believed he was equally as frank during the stewards' inquiry.
However, not everyone agreed that Vettel was entirely to blame, as he tried to defend his second place to the charging Kubica.
"He (Vettel) was on the inside - he couldn't make his car dissolve into thin air," Ferrari advisor and seven time world champion Schumacher said at Albert Park, according to Germany's Bild newspaper.
1982 world champion Keke Rosberg remarked that Vettel may have been penalised because he is an overly "honest chap".
Stewards ruled that he caused the crash and ordered Vettel to start ten places lower than his qualifying position in Malaysia this weekend.
Contrary to earlier news, it has emerged that Sebastian Vettel was indeed penalised for his Australian Grand Prix crash with Robert Kubica.
We reported that the German was actually handed his ten-grid penalty for the forthcoming Malaysian round, and a $50,000 fine, for failing to promptly pull his heavily damaged Red Bull to the side of the track.
In fact, the Sepang grid penalty was for his crash with BMW's Kubica with three laps to go, when stewards ruled that Vettel caused the incident, a somewhat harsh decision.
"Should I have let him go? You always want to fight.
Maybe I should have said let him go and bring third back home, but that's life,"said Vettel, who had been fighting with Pole Kubica for second place.
The $50,000 fine, meanwhile, was levied because Red Bull officials instructed the 21-year-old by radio to continue to race his three-wheeled car rather than pull it to the side of the Melbourne layout.
"I think it's hard but we just have to accept it," Sebastian said.
We reported that the German was actually handed his ten-grid penalty for the forthcoming Malaysian round, and a $50,000 fine, for failing to promptly pull his heavily damaged Red Bull to the side of the track.
In fact, the Sepang grid penalty was for his crash with BMW's Kubica with three laps to go, when stewards ruled that Vettel caused the incident, a somewhat harsh decision.
"Should I have let him go? You always want to fight.
The $50,000 fine, meanwhile, was levied because Red Bull officials instructed the 21-year-old by radio to continue to race his three-wheeled car rather than pull it to the side of the Melbourne layout.
"I think it's hard but we just have to accept it," Sebastian said.
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