posted Jun 9, 2008

How can Raikononen say Hamilton is stupid when he ruined Sutil's great race 2 weeks ago.

(cough) Hipocrit (cough)

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totally agreed well sed i mean where raikonnen's punishment then

if it werent for the race director making a stupid decision to bring the safety car out in the first place there wud hav benn no incident

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posted Jun 9, 2008

>"This rule needs a rethink"

The rule is fine.

'Twas "one of those things"...it won't happen again.

Loads of Youtube clips, no doubt.

Pity it happened...but it won't happen again

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posted Jun 10, 2008

A penalty for Hamilton I can understand, but Rosberg? Who's race did he ruin?
And I wonder what Anthony Davidson thought of the race, well Nelson Piquets race anyway.
Any thoughts Flavio?

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posted Jun 10, 2008

I know that this comment is late but something has been puzzling me since Sunday. No-one has mentioned, not even on the race commentary, that the pit lane exit is closed when the safety car and snake is on its way passed the pits. Because all the cars that pitted were in for approx 20 secs, the snake couldn't have made it all the way round the track for the exit to be closed. Is this not the case as far as the rules have played out at previous races? Also seems to me that thats why Rosberg did the same thing as Lewis.

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posted Jun 11, 2008

I think 10+ drivers will be off their marks sharpish in France

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posted Jun 11, 2008

I dont know wh Ferrari/BMW got to the end of the pit lane first but assuming the BMW was fisrt why did the Ferrari line up nect to it (I beleive it is a single lane not two) also if the second car passed the first on the change from red to green would that get a 5 place penalty in the next race or what or should they leave the pit lane in the same order they entered it?
What does the rule book say !!!

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posted Jun 12, 2008

Thats a point i was trying to put over somewhere else. Should'nt Kimi have let Kubica through before leaving his pit area.

Of course he is in a Ferrari, so the stewards and top brass turn a blind eye.

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posted Jun 12, 2008

FIA F1 2008 Sporting Regulations:

Art 23.1(d) - "When cars are permitted to leave the pit lane they must do so in the order they arrived at the end of the pit lane..."

So Kimi was ok to leave the pits ahead of Kubica, but...

Art 23.1(i) - "It is the responsibility of the competitor to release his car after a pit stop only when it is safe to do so"

I think it was probably unsafe to release Kimi into the path of Kubica.

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posted Jun 13, 2008

<<I think it was probably unsafe to release Kimi into the path of Kubica.>>

It was unsafe to release Hamilton

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posted Jun 16, 2008

their decision is just right- hamilton and rosberg made the same mistake, they should both be penalised, and the penalty seems about right- a stupid mistake rather than anything sinister, but still ruined kimis race so cant go unpunished

as for raikonnens incident with sutil that was totally different- on the racetrack, and he was unlucky to lose control on a damp patch- the replays show it was clearly an accident.

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