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Track is damp, I think they'll all go with intermediate tyres.

Belgium would be a good grand prix to go to I think; good racing track and great beer.

Hamilton starts well and blows it on the second lap. I want to be surprised but i'm not.

"Blows it"?

At the time of typing he is ahead of his nearest title rival.

Do you know what would make f1 better?

Lap dancers?

F fun more like

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

GO LEWIS!

Bloody Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raikonnen gone!

Kimmi crashes oout. Yipppeeee.

What a finale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Come on Lewis! He needs to bloody slow down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahahahaha Kimi you muppet.

Yes. Well done Lewis!!!!!!

Ferrari have to go for Massa now in the remaining races.

that was lush

Grand Prix was actually good for once. Well the last 10 minutes anyway.

I only saw the last 7 laps of the race. Incredible! Watching the Hamilton/Raikkonen scrap was immense. In a way its a shame Raikkonen went out like that as we could have had 2 more incredible laps of entertainment, but I can't complain seeing as Hamilton won it!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/70401


The FIA are a bunch of fucking cheating corrupt cunts. Kimmi took the place back by a car length.

What a fucking joke.  Can McLaren appeal as I bloody would.

Woe betide anyone beat a fucking ferrari.

Cant believe that.  Last week Ferrari demonstrated dangerous driving coming out of the pit lane and nearly colliding with another driver and get no penalty.

Corrupt bunch of morons.

Amen to that brother

I am furious. 

Hamilton clearly relinquished the place, but then overtook him again on the same straight. I wonder if Hamilton had not passed him until after the next corner then he might not have been penalised.

Nothing wrong with it. Kimmi wouldn't play ball so Hamilton was forced to cut the corner. In any event Lewis gave way to Kimmi because he knew the law would stipulate that. So he's gone back into second before over taking him legally. Abosulte rubbish.

What a fucking joke, one of best endings to a race in ages ruined. Clearly not much point watching F1 anymore if nothing gets decided on the track

Surely they must be able to appeal?

It becauses hes black innit, the FIA is racist

McLaren will deffo appeal if they have any sense.

This has really really wound me up.

What my comment or the whole thing in general?

Have a glass of vino.

It is corrupt Luci, even if McLaren did appeal i doubt the FIA will back down.

I blame the Nazi prostitute shagger.

I thought at the time that manoeuvre would cause problems. I'm not sure Hamilton backed off enough, 6km/h isn't much at all.

That said Hamilton was right in the slipstream of Kimi before that, he'd have finished there after the corner, had he been able to stay behind.

Not sure he gained an advantage, especially when you consider Kimi didn't even finish!

As someone said earlier, no point in watching Forumal One anymore that is ridiculous.

McLaren are appealing, or rather are intending to. It's not 100% clear whether they can appeal a stop/go penalty.

The result of the appeal will be .... ... ... McLaren handed suspended fine for daring to challenge.

Oh joy, isn't it the Italian GP next.

Ridiculous. That is all.

Feel very sorry for Raikkonen, his drive didn't warrant ending in the wall, and if the weather hadn't intervened, he would have deservedly done so.

Spa really is an awesome track. I went to the famous '98 GP (the pile up/Schumacher vs Coulthard punch up and Damon Hill winning in a Jordan race). Standing at the top of Eau Rouge watching cars come blasting through flat out is a nerve tingling experience. Standing at the bottom and looking up then makes you respect them even more - boy is that hill steep (much more so than it looks on TV).

i flicked over to see the last 6 laps or so, the last 3 or 4 laps had even my mum shouting for Hamilton.


as for THAT overtaking manouver and subsequent corner cutting, Lewis was 3/4 the way past Kimi and i'm pretty sure in the eyes of the law thats a pass. Kimi played rough, pushing him wide, and locked up. hamilton would've ended up on the grass/in the gravel had he tried to make it round the corner, kimi's tactics would have worked. hamilton took the smart option, relinquished the place, i dont see a problem.

the FIA have ferrari's cock firmly in their mouths, they always have done. it makes a fucking mockery of the sport, the most exciting finish to a race in ages and the FIA take offense to it. typical.

Small point of order Leggest old boy. It was the RACE stewards that applied the penalty, albeit one would assume they are representatives of the FIA in some way, shape or form. I recall Ron Dennis' interview with ITV yesterday, when he stated they immediatedly asked Charlie Whiting whether the move was acceptable and was, I believe, told it was OK.

I totally agree with your analysis though, the move looked perfectly fine to me. With hindsight though, I just wonder whether Lewis' faux pas was to pass at La Source rather than wait until later in the lap......

If Lewis was white, German or drove for Ferarri, there would be no penalty. Just as there was no penalty last weekend for Ferrarri almost causing a pile up in the pits.

Lewis Hamilton is white.

I thought he was in between black and white, er.... grey?

He's about 5000% white.

He looks orange to me?

he's like richard blackwood, he's officially black(ish) but if you cut him through the middle he's white all the way through!

Ex-Ferrari driver Lauder not too pleased:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7603179.stm

But (predictably) much much funnier is ex-Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine, I think he's trying to get his trip to Italy cancelled:

http://www.virginmedia.com/sport/motorsport/eddie-irvine-latest.php

Im getting kinda obssessed with Lewis and Nicole

They make an amazing couple

Imagine if they had a baby how beautiful it would be???

Nicole who?

Is that the one with the pointy face who's in Pussycat Dolls?

I dont understand that lot at all. assuming nicole is the lead singer, what exactly is the point of the rest of them?  they dont even seem that good looking

This is a big issue and I demand answers

I agree,look like men in drag to me.

He gets to do her. For this reason, i lose most of my sympathy for him.

The lucky cunt.

I agree some of the PCD are foul but Nicole is lush - she has the most amazing body

[url width=123 height=130]http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e99/Jamiesfuturewife/lewisandnicole.jpg[/url]

And a pointy face.

you have a roundy face!  :P

Yes but it didn't stop you from snogging me.

she looks to me like she's 40. i really dont like her, dunno why!

Nicole Sherzinger is beautiful, the red head PCD, Carmet is it? looks like a bloke

I would bum her but no forward sex as her chiselled jaw would put me off

I agree. I'd request 2 bags: One for my head so I can't see her jaw, and one for her head just in case my one falls off

I blindfold would be easier michael

you lot are odd

I've never seen such widespread dislike of the Sherzinger... mental. She's awesome.

Apparently one of the McClaren team spoke to Charlie Whiting a few times to ask if what Lewis had done was OK, or if they needed to let Kimi overtake him again. Whiting said it was fine, and they've got the call recorded. I always thought the stewards worked on what Whiting told them so this could be interesting....

The FIA desperately need to improve their image the way things are going, and the decision to dock Hamilton time was absolutely ridiculous. I'll be disgusted but not entirely surprised if the Mclaren appeal isn't successful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZmZzasDEw

Appeal lost.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7627941.stm

Cunts.

Fucking gutted here

Bang goes the win bonus


If it was Ferrari it would be a completely different matter


Fucking Cunts

Hope he fucking stuffs it down their throats in Singapore

They didn't even allow the appeal, tough they'd have rejected it if they had. That may be the rules but they are utterly utterly wank rules.

It's a shit sport (imo), in fact it's barely a sport these days (again imo).  Each to their own though I s'pose!

Rubbish. Total rubbish. The FIA are cheating cunts.

Fucking ridiculous.

Ok so have I got this right....

They say the appeal is invalid because you can't appeal drive through penalties (which is fucking obvious as you'd pretty much have to re-run the race if such an appeal was upheld) and despite the fact that this was actually a time penalty because the incident occurred so late in the race, it's technically judged to be a drive through penalty.

Twats.

yes, he was penalised for the amount of time a drive-thru would have taken, had they been capable of making a decision during the race. unfortuantely they are incompetant and didn't.

Conspiracy theorists may wish to investigate claims that several high ranking members of the FIA (including at least one who was a member of the appeals panel hearing) are former Ferrari F1 executives/employees. I'm not convinced these are facts and wouldn't wish them passed off as such (and haven't fully investigated such rumours), but when should the truth get in the way of a good rumour eh?

Oh, and Fred, answer your bloody PM's will you!

Answered

This is why I don't really follow formula one anymore. As soon as something exciting happens, it goes to court.

1997 was the last season I really watched and enjoyed. On the one hand I'd disliked Villeneuve from the season prior but come the last race I was egging him on to beat the cheating German. Great final race with plenty of drama.

Actually that's probably a lie, Hakkinen's first title season was interesting too.

I still remember him crying in the trees when he blew it one year. Great viewing.

I found this: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/petition-sign.cgi?belgp08

Over 62,000 signatures and counting. (Including mine).

McLarens new step, especially for Singapore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOl_p3gyrD0

(I assume youtube links are OK Bazza?)

The night race is 2000 Sunday so 1pm our time - same as the European races.  Typical that the bloody Millwall game has to be this Sunday at 2pm.

Sky+ is your friend. Just got to avoid the result till I get home!

Thats the bit Im concerned about! 

The thing that gets me about this 25 second penalty replacing a drive through is this. At the time the stewards defered making the decision. They had time but didn't. If L H had had the drive through he would have probably finished second. He was miles faster than any one else in that rain, & being in first place took it easy. Given the penalty at the time he could have made second place.
Second, the whole thing stinks any way. It's as plain as day that he was a forced off the track, b was in front anyway at that time, &  relinquished any advantage gained anyway just in case.