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and not faltering in the excitement.

…some may count blowing up their own pit garage during the celebrations as faltering in the excitement! But I agree, Williams weren’t settling for second place in this […]

@keithcollantine I completely agree. Even judged in isolation though, I’d say that this decision is harsh. Short of preventing Hamilton from racing tomorrow, the stewards couldn’t have applied a harsher penalty. […]

@keithcollantine I take your point but how do you judge if a decision is harsh? You do so by comparing it to past decisions.

The sanction applied to Hamilton would suggest that this infraction is of the same […]

@alexsandr Could you please quote the part of the stewards’ statement where they say they couldn’t take a sample from Hamilton’s car?
As I read it, they punishing him for failing to return to the pits under his […]

@ridiculous
(1) When Hamilton failed to return to the pits in Montreal in 2010, this wasn’t in contravention of any rule in place at the time. As such, I fail to see how it’s relevant here – it’s not a repeat […]

Yet another farce to add to the long, long catalogue of ridiculous decisions made by the FIA / race stewards.

At the outset, I completely accept that Hamilton/McLaren have breached Article 6.22 – but as far as […]

Great race – 9/10. Battles all the way through the field except for first.

The wheel to wheel action between 2nd to 9th was fantastic to watch and, had that been for the lead, it would have been a 10.

What […]

Sorry I didn’t mean to misspell your name there @keithcollantine !

@keithcollatine Good question. I had assumed that F1 would have some sort of official statician who would have the last say on these issues (perhaps the equivalent of the dubious goals panel in the Premier League) […]

@keithcollantine Interesting. I understand that’s your interpretation – but do you know if the official interpretation is the same? I.e. if Hamilton sets the fastest time in qualifying – will it not be counted […]

Presumably this is all linked to events in Malaysia where the Government has sold its stake in Proton (the owner of Group Lotus) to DRB-Hicom? There were rumours the DRB-Hicom wanted to completely change the […]

9/10 – if Perez had taken the win, it’d have been a definite 10. Great race!

@palle True, I’ll be interested to see how well him and Grosjean can do in Malaysia if they have a straightforward qualifying and clean first few laps. Could be challengers for the podium?

I loved Kimi’s radio message to check if the blue flags were for him – and his engineer then explaining the whole blue flag system to him! I half expected Kimi to come on the radio a few minutes later and ask what […]

Loving seeing the cars slide all over the place. The blown diffuser rule really has affected rear grip – which makes for fantastic viewing.

And Grosjean – absolutely brilliant start, I hope he scores a solid […]

I wouldn’t count the G10 as a point and shoot camera. I may be wrong but I thought it was the same as an SLR except that the viewfinder was digital rather than a live view? You can still shoot in aperture or […]

@Jameyprice I was at the final day of testing in Barcelona and took snaps using both my own micro four-thirds camera (a Panasonic Lumix G10) and my friend’s SLR (a Nikon). I haven’t yet seen the results of the […]

@Dan-thorn Completely agree – it looks stunning in this shot in particular.

Me too – I’ve been browsing until the fourth comments page to find someone mentioning its length. It looks twice as long as last year’s car. and longer than the 2012 car drawn by Scarbs.

Are they trying to fit […]