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Old 08-09-2008, 13:04   #88
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Re: Formula 1 2008 Season

Have you actually looked closely at the video.
At 24 sec you can see him trying to go up the inside, he is not even close to being level with Kimi when he closes the door (quite rightly so) and its obvious that there will be no room up the inside, but instead of abandoning the move he does a hard left taking the whole chicane out of the equation and going from being behind to in front by some margin. It's not even the case that he had made the move and had to overrun the chicane to make it stick, to which he still would have had to give the place back. He makes a deliberate decision to not attempt the chicane, using other parts than the track, to his benefit.
As for being "squeezed" of the track it's nothing wrong with that, and something Lewis has done on numerous occasions himself, the last time it was described as 'Majestic' as far as I can remember.
In the second clip, in your honest opinion do you think Lewis is lifting?? It certainly does not sound like it to me.
If the Darth Ron has telemetry to say otherwise, I would have thought that he had the opportunity to show that to the stewards at the time.
Maybe they decided that the overall advantage gained wasn't adequately negated by Lewis at the time.
As I stated before I think it was borderline, and I initially did think it was unjust, but looking closely at the clips I think it is just (just).
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