Hamilton Stripped of Win - Official

im not happy ferrari get away with it again dont they like drivers overtaking them lewis is the only driver.he lets back in the lead then overtakes him at the hairpin kimi was swirving all over the place and lewis dived up the inside fair move he was quicker in the wet the best driver won i thought i hope the team appeal and win

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Man I hate stupid n00bish stuff like that. Screw the data. In situations like this judgments should be made on what we can see rather than what some datalogging software says.

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Yep - and based on what I saw, the penalty was undeserved. He relinquished the place willingly, and even passed Kimi twice on the same lap.

I believe 25 seconds was used, not as a quantifier, but as an indication of what he would have lost had he been given a drive-through, which is the usual penalty for cutting a chicane.

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

It's amazing that is what was written on the official Formula One website:



Just because Max Mosley may have castration fantasies, it's unfortunate that his band of blind mice stewards feel the need to do the same to F1. Good hard racing is disallowed in the current F1 Powder Puff. Paint the cars pink, hire Danica Patrick and make sure no one gets within 50 feet of another car.

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YOU, ARE A POWDER PUFF. SWALLOW YOUR DISAPIONTMENT AND ACCEPT THE DECISION. IF THE DECISION WAS WRONG, BELIEVE ME, THAT MCLAREN WILL LAUNCH A PROTEST, AND EVERY ONE WILL LOOK AT THAT DECISION VERY CLOSELY. IF THEY RE-TRACT IT, THEN YOU CAN SCREAM BLOODY MURDER...

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Originally Posted by Daniel

You do realise that you have to go through corners and be on the racing line in the corners to be fast don't you? :)

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yep I do realise that..so in this case Lewis was on the racing line goin into the corner..kimi..was off the racing line..but came back on with lewis next to him..giving Lewis no other choise than to either cut the corner or hit Kimi's car...right ?

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Originally Posted by 1zorro

YOU, ARE A POWDER PUFF.

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Them's fightin' words :rotflmao:

Watching the videos, I do not see an advantage, given afterwards that Kimi ended up way in front when Hamilton left the road again, only for Kimi to spin.

I do think the backmarkers were far more of a problem of getting in Kimi's way and causing or contributing to the last two spins or offroad excursions of kimi.

Nevertheless, there is hamster bragging (once AGAIN) about how he has superior driving ability that caused him to win, when if kimi had not had the spin after getting back in front (contributed to by a car that was about to get lapped) then hamilton would be excusing his bad luck in going off-roading and falling way behind.

But again, if the road were dry that would be one thing, but this was NOT the case. FIA should not be sticking their nose into it.

Botttom line it was all more luck and blind hope that the tires hold. Period.

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Originally Posted by 1zorro

YOU, ARE A POWDER PUFF. SWALLOW YOUR DISAPIONTMENT AND ACCEPT THE DECISION. IF THE DECISION WAS WRONG, BELIEVE ME, THAT MCLAREN WILL LAUNCH A PROTEST, AND EVERY ONE WILL LOOK AT THAT DECISION VERY CLOSELY. IF THEY RE-TRACT IT, THEN YOU CAN SCREAM BLOODY MURDER...

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Speak up! I couldn't hear you.

When you get these keys figured out, then you can get back to me. OK, genius?

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/tec...ock-717174.jpg

I would dearly, dearly love to see McLaren just walk away after this. It's getting ridiculous now.

He passed off the track. OK. He gave the position back. OK. What more do they want? Is there a mandated distance back he has to go? Does he have to apologize to Kimi with flowers and nice chocolates? Perhaps penitentally follow him around like a lapdog?

Vile.

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Originally Posted by markabilly

Watching the videos, I do not see an advantage, given afterwards that Kimi ended up way in front when Hamilton left the road again, only for Kimi to spin.

I do think the backmarkers were far more of a problem of getting in Kimi's way and causing or contributing to the last two spins or offroad excursions of kimi.

But again, if the road were dry that would be one thing, but this was NOT the case. FIA should not be sticking their nose into it.

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Exactly! It was good hard racing until some old guys in suits felt the need to play with the results.

For goodness sake, let them race! It's things like this that make me miss the old CART series. None of this limp wristed silliness back then. Too bad that got flushed.

This really is a joke, but that is the tradition of the FIA.

I doubt that this decision will stand in a world of fair appeals, but this is the FIA, you know the one that got no problem with a certain prez, can not measure temperature outside properly, and on and on......so since logic would dictate the opinion does not stand, safe money would be on it does.