Still in all seriousness Hamilton WAS in the wrong and deserved it, anyways the bugger won the championship anyway so who cares. Oh and now hes done that Ron Dennis has left Woppey! thumbs up from everyone then

Cant wait until Melbourne
Good luck to Kubica and BMW

second position was again perfectly OK for his World Championship

Thats Lewis though, he takes risks for the racing, unlike the Ferrari drivers which are happy to do ‘just’ enough – and even then fall short.

Lewis is an aggresive driver and he deserves a title…..
Last yesr he was a rookie and this is his second year……
so I would say,
“Neihbor’s(Ferrari/FIA) envy owners(Ron Dennis/McLAREN) pride…”
Best of luck to Lewis……

http://www.rosodigital.com/blog/?p=158

what are your thoughts?
has everyone moved on?

However the comments regarding the appeal ( waiting to see the result before Monza) are pie in the sky. The appeal if even it is allowed to be heard will not come before the court until nearly or even after the season is over.

Let Hamilton show that he can win despite probable bias and undue influence by the F1 mafia(t)

I just did a test to ascrivener@fiacommunication.com (the UK lawyer for F1)it bounced back in 30sec, but now after some 5 mins -no returns for the following :
I have just sent an email to A Scrivener (ascrivener@fia.com) and it has not returned, so any of the following people who are at the FIA should be contactable….see http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/E688E726E7A6A7B4C1257384006176A8/$FILE/CompoTAI2007-2008.pdf?Openelement
for a full list of members

Or how about on a current FIA publication…….
Richard Woods
FIA Director of Communications
Tel +33 1 43 12 58 14
Fax +33 1 43 12 58 19
Email rwoods@fiacommunications.com

Now load that onto a web site for everyone to see!!!!!!!

I think that Reikonnen did nothing wrong in pushing Hamilton to hold the position, that’s motor racing and Hamilton gained an advantage by cutting the corner but then gave the position back, in my view that should have been the end of it. I can’t remember a driver ever being penalised for cutting a corner after having given the position back.

This ruling to penalise Hamilton is a step too far, it’s clear that there are different rules for the 2 top teams.

How can any driver or team decide how far they should drop back in such circumstances in the future?

The only issue here is the stewards interference, everything else is emotion or support for a particular driver or team, I’m not a Hamilton or Ferrari fan.

Sean

2(c):
Curves, as well as the approach and exit zones thereof, may be negotiated by the drivers in any way they wish, within the limits of the track. Overtaking, according to the circumstances, may be done either on the right or on the left. However, manoeuvres liable to hinder other drivers such as premature changes of direction, more than one change of direction, deliberate crowding of cars towards the inside or the outside of the curve or any other abnormal change of direction, are strictly prohibited and shall be penalised, according to the
importance and repetition of the offences, by penalties ranging from a fine to the exclusion from the race. The repetition of dangerous driving, even involuntary, may result in the exclusion from the race.

It would be, in my mind, unfair to say Kimi did something wrong here against the Sporting Code.

However the manoeuvre did force Lewis off the track (breaching the Sporting regulations) and was a contributing factor for Lewis cutting the track (breach of code and regulations).
I would have thought that common sense would prevail and one breach of regulations each would be weighed against each other. Obviously not.

That makes me wonder if the reason the stewards only looked at this Incident on the side of Lewis was because he breached rules on Sporting Code as well as the Sporting Regulations?

Try section 16 of the sporting regulations about “Incidents”

16.1 “Incident” means any occurrence or series of occurrences involving one or more drivers, or any action by any driver, which is reported to the stewards by the race director (or noted by the stewards and referred to the race director for investigation) which :

- necessitated the suspension of a race under Article 41 ;
- constituted a breach of these Sporting Regulations or the Code ;
- caused a false start by one or more cars ;
- caused a collision ;
- forced a driver off the track ;
- illegitimately prevented a legitimate overtaking manoeuvre by a driver ;
- illegitimately impeded another driver during overtaking.

Unless it was completely clear that a driver was in breach of any of the above, any incidents involving
more than one car will normally be investigated after the race.

Lewis broke the sporting code. Annex L Chapter 4 2(g)
g) The race track alone shall be used by the drivers during the
race.

Lewis also failed on section 30.3(a) of the regs that says the same thing and just doubles up 16.1 and 2(g) in one line.

30.3 a) During practice and the race, drivers may use only the track and must at all times observe the
provisions of the Code relating to driving behaviour on circuits.

However – How many other drivers could you point these rules at. Especially about forcing another driver off the track or – “illegitimately prevented a legitimate overtaking manoeuvre by a driver”

These are a nightmare and can be easily seen both ways.
This needs better clarification for all our sakes!

Hamilton was impatient, Hamilton cheated by driving dangerously. Kimi did nothing wrong or anything illegal.

END OF STORY

All of you saying “well if the car hadn’t been red” blah blah blah. Well if the other car hadn’t been Hamilton would all these posts be here? No because all the GP n00bs that read this blog wouldn’t care.