Re: F1 - Belgium GP 2008
 

:LOL: reading the 606 forum on the BBC website is quite interesting atm ;)

Breaking news on the BBC says Hamilton has been stripped of the win .... given a 25 second penalty, which demoted him to third ..

Re: Formula 1 2008 Season
 

great end to the race not seen anything like that for a while !

Re: F1 - Belgium GP 2008
 

it's so wrong. Hamilton obviously yielded the position initially, then won it back at the next corner - the FIA need to get their noses out of Ferrari's backside....

Re: F1 - Belgium GP 2008
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7602830.stm
Hamiltons got a 25 sec penality

Re: F1 - Belgium GP 2008
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7602830.stm

25second penalty :( so he's stripped of the win :(

Re: F1 - Belgium GP 2008
 

Its not over until Ferrari win

Re: Formula 1 2008 Season
 

Subject to the Stewards investigation, which could bugger up the result.

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Re: F1 - Belgium GP 2008
 

Thats bang out of order :(

Re: F1 - Belgium GP 2008
 

If Hamilton had directly affected Raikkonen going off I would agree with the penalty, as it was, any debatable advantage gained during the overtaking manoeuvre was negated by Kimi's crash....

That assumes the reason for the penalty was to do with the 'tit for tat' overtaking battle between Hamilton & Raikkonen - if it was, then I believe it was based on an unfair assessment of what happened???

Re: Formula 1 2008 Season
 

Ferrari Interanational Assistance does it again

F1 is rapidly losing all respect in my house

Re: Formula 1 2008 Season
 

yep, and they'll keep handing out these non-sensical penalties because no one's there to stop them.

I hope Mclaren appeal, because it'd mean that the decision would be opened up to scrutiny.

Lewis gave Kimi the place back that he gained through going cutting the corner. Corner cutting or not, Masa would still have stood no chance of winning. Therefore, after Kimi had crashed out, Lewis gained none or negligable advantage over Masa, certainly nothing that would have altered the race result.

Re: Formula 1 2008 Season
 

I can see the breakaway happening sooner rather than later now this has happened to Hammilton who drove his arse off in the wet for the last 4-5 laps to gain a win. Where do they get off giving out a 25sec penalty when Massa got off scott free in the last race for his pit lane incident.

The FIA have a lot to answer for and it wont be long before Bernie starts crying into his lost billions.
I can see Formula1 in a couple of years being staged by Ferrari, run by Ferrari and contain 2 drivers both belonging Ferrari, which by all accounts is the defacto status of Ferrari now, they think they own F1 and the FIA let them think that too.

I lost heart in F1 about 7-8 years ago with all the rules that started coming in, an avid armchair supporter I once was. This season I have got back into it and mostly enjoyed the racing but todays farce has just reinforced what I suspected if you overtake Ferrari or hamper them in any way in the last 10% of a race then you stand a very good chance of being investigated for the smallest of things.

Re: Formula 1 2008 Season
 

so clearly they want people to crash instead? bunch of idiots, i no longer have an interest in F1 while ferrari are calling the shots

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and where the heck did they get 25 seconds from.......?