The Crane and Lewis

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Originally Posted by XR8

Now my question would be= How come Hamiltons car was lifted onto the track but the other cars were lifted behind the barriers? Now wheather his engine was running or not should not have any bearing on this decision bt the marshals.

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Couldn't agree more if he couldn't get the car out of the gravel under the power of the engine then he's stuck and out of the race. The only place the car should have been lifted to was over the barriers. No way should he have been put back on track.
That imageshack link that was posted earlier is a blinder!

It seems the German marshal s have rules of their own, if it's a German driver or a German car, they can help them back on track.

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

If it were not allowed then Hamilton would have been shown the black flag, and if others assumed they couldn't continue then perhaps they don't know the rulebook as well as others :D

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Then we can say that he cheated intelligently knowing very well the loophole of the regulations?!! ;) :D

So like someone said, whatever MS can do, Lewis can do better :D

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Originally Posted by janneppi

It seems the German marshal s have rules of their own, if it's a German driver or a German car, they can help them back on track.

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Good point. The German marshal are used to that, like they did for Schumi in 2003!! :D

All this talk of "bump starting" ignores the fact that a modern F1 engine needs hooking up to a computer to start it.

Lewis kept his engine running (or the McLaren anti-stall system is better than some), so was allowed to continue.

I'm sure that if it had been against the rules he would have been investigated during the race, and black flagged accordingly.

This isn't a pro- or anti-Lewis issue, it's simply following rules laid down in black and white. The conspiracy theorists are being kept busy with that race, aren't they?

the rules state that you can be assisted back onto the track if your car is in a dangerous position. I think we can all agree that his car was in a dangerous position. so, Lewis had thye prescence of mind to keep the engine going and get back on track.

McLaren thought that the lap previous, Lewis had not been lapped so should not have had to regain a lap.

when the race restarted, it was behind the safety car and the rules state that after (I think) 90 seconds, any lapped cars can unlap themselves to get the "chaff" out of the way of the quick boys and make a safer restart.

Do you think if Lewis could manage to score points, would have some teams stayed silent like they are today? I don't think so.

As long as he didn't score any point, it is useless for them to argue on this issue and now the instruction to drivers is to do whatever they can if they spin, keep the engine running and wait the crane to take you off the gravel and get back to race.

No one will claim and Lewis's case would be a proof that it is allowed.

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Originally Posted by tinchote

C'mon, Arrows, just do a small leap of imagination and think what people would be saying here had something like that happen with MS ;) :D

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Yes, and it would have been unfair then, because it would still have been within the letter of the rules.

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Originally Posted by Flat.tyres

McLaren thought that the lap previous, Lewis had not been lapped so should not have had to regain a lap.

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Clearly, this was proved to be correct.

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Originally Posted by F1MAN2007

Do you think if Lewis could manage to score points, would have some teams stayed silent like they are today? I don't think so.

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Teams "stayed silent" because there was no problem with what was done.

You're right that in future drivers may stay in the car with the engine running, but shouldn't they be doing that anyway if they have an otherwise healthy car? It shouldn't take a rookie to make them aware that they can, they should know that already shouldn't they?