Formula 1 2009 Season [may contain real time spoilers]

[Raistlin]

I'm not even sure what they're in trouble for this time.....

[CHiLL]

Under the safety car, Trulli went off and came back on, Hamilton went past him. Usually its against the rules to overtake under the safety car, but Trulli went completely off. (4 wheels off) Once Hamilton was passed, he didn't know if he should let Trulli back passed, so he called his team over the radio and asked. They weren't sure, so they told him to let Trulli back past.

Once Trulli was back infront, McLaren took Trulli to the stewards saying he overtook Hamilton under the safety car. This was a mistake by one of the head people at McLaren, and Hamilton hadn't actually done anything wrong.

[Raistlin]

Ah, ok - thanks for that

[Jon T]

Originally Posted by CHiLL

Under the safety car, Trulli went off and came back on, Hamilton went past him. Usually its against the rules to overtake under the safety car, but Trulli went completely off. (4 wheels off) Once Hamilton was passed, he didn't know if he should let Trulli back passed, so he called his team over the radio and asked. They weren't sure, so they told him to let Trulli back past.

Once Trulli was back infront, McLaren took Trulli to the stewards saying he overtook Hamilton under the safety car. This was a mistake by one of the head people at McLaren, and Hamilton hadn't actually done anything wrong.

Hamilton hadn't done anything wrong up untill the point that he lied to the Stewards under the direction of his race director(who's now been sacked).

McLaren have been found guilty of five charges, the main one of which was bringing the sport into desrepute by lying to an official.

The punishment, a three race ban, is "suspended" in the same way that a prison sentence can be suspended. As long as no other offences are commited is a pre-determined amount of time, then the sentence never has to be served.

[alferret]

Just a reminder that qualifying for this weekends Spanish Grand Prix is at 12.10 on BBC1.

[Kymmy]

Currently watching the final practice as I type..with just under 30 minutes left.

Hiedfeld has just gone off at turn 12....
Both Ferrari's are fastest, Hamilton 6th by half a second and Button 13th by 1 second

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Now it's a top four seperated by only .3 seconds of

GLOCK
BUTTON
MASSA
HAMILTON

5 minutes left

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Kovalainen just got 4th with 0.14 behind the leader

3 minutes left so it's low fuel and soft tyres time

Massa leading by .8s

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1 Brazil F Massa Ferrari
2 Finland K Raikkonen Ferrari
3 Great Britain J Button Brawn
4 Brazil R Barrichello Brawn
5 Poland R Kubica BMW Sauber
6 Italy J Trulli Toyota
7 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren
8 Germany T Glock Toyota
9 Switzerland S Buemi Toro Rosso
10 Spain F Alonso Renault
11 Finland H Kovalainen McLaren
12 Germany N Rosberg Williams
13 Australia M Webber Red Bull
14 France S Bourdais Toro Rosso
15 Brazil N Piquet Jr Renault
16 Germany S Vettel Red Bull
17 Germany A Sutil Force India
18 Japan K Nakajima Williams
19 Italy G Fisichella Force India
20 Germany N Heidfeld BMW Sauber

The top 11 is within a second of the leader

Qualifying starts at 1pm BST (though the TV program starts nearly an hour earlier)

[Kymmy]

End of Q1 and Raikkonen doesn't go out again and ends up 16th!! Even though his team-mate ends up on P1 for that session..

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Hamilton is out after Q2

[Flyboy]

I don't think Eddie Jordan is in a good mood today.

[Jon T]

Another win for Jenson!

[Hom3r]

4 wins outta 5, 5 podiums outta 5

Poor Ferrari










NOT

[Jon T]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

Poor Ferrari

I know, how are we gonna cope?

Someone's fallen out with Mosley or Eccleston!

[Hom3r]

More racist *******s in the Spanish GP

Strip the of the GP next year as punishment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/8042572.stm

The anti-racism campaigns are worth SFA

[soicky]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/8044860.stm

Ferrari have announced they will quit Formula 1 at the end of the season if the sport continues with plans to adopt a £40m budget cap from 2010.

"No F1 in 2010 if the rules do not change," read a statement. "Ferrari does not intend to register cars for the 2010 F1 world championship."

[Paul K]

Wonder how much sabre rattling will occur at the next meeting.

[Raistlin]

Oh dear, what a pity, never mind - yet again Ferrari putting their own interests in front of those of the sport.

Let 'em go I say