Donkey of the Race

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

like when he was at Sauber eh? :)

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Yep, beating a WDC fair and square!

Not much of a WDC that was though, he was handed his single WDC on a platter by "the driver formerly known as the best"... surely doesn't really count does it? ;) :p

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

Not much of a WDC that was though, he was handed his single WDC on a platter by "the driver formerly known as the best"... surely doesn't really count does it? ;) :p

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Let me think about it! ;)

PS: Now that I thought about it not many drivers out there who did beat 2 WDC's as team mates. :D

beat as in fair and square?
nope, can't see what you're getting at... by how many points again? :p :D

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

beat as in fair and square?
nope, can't see what you're getting at... by how many points again? :p :D

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Villeneuve by 2 points.
Raikkonen by a few more.

That's 2 of them, both WDCs before the beating! ;)

:up: fair enough...

kimi who? ;) :p

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

:up: fair enough...

kimi who? ;) :p

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You know, the coolest guy in F1, even when his KERS set the car on fire! The ice cream man! ;)

PS: This thread looks like a dialog now!

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Originally Posted by ioan

Just for the record backmarkers are allowed to un-lap themselves if faster than the other drivers.
There are numerous examples in the history of F1.

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Absolutly, but as soon as Massa overtook Rosberg he was held up behind the Toro Rosso (i think it was), and would have needed to get out of the way again.

My only point was that Heidfeld was a little unlucky to be the only one penalized.

He may well have deserved it, but so maybe did a few others out there. In these situations I think its either penalize everyone who holds up a leader or for me the more sensible decision would be to understand that in that pack of 10 odd cars you may easily loose track of where you are for a few corners and for the stewards to show a little more common sense.

Or get the team to point out to their driver the situation and that a penalty will follow if he doesn't move over asap
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This may have been done, but it just seems unlikley that no other of those 6+ cars held up a leader more than he should have.

For all those trashing Liuzzi's race, apparently his crash was a result of a mechanical failure: http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...nical-failure/

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A mechanical issue, as opposed to driver error, was the cause of Vitantonio Liuzzi’s sizable accident in Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix, with the Italian having lost control just metres from the scene of his 2009 qualifying incident.
“Unfortunately, I had been struggling with the brakes all race and then going into the second corner something on the car let go and I couldn't turn in."

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