Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Agreed, T1 incidents like this happen....however do the stewards see the teleamtary (speeling is shocking today sorry) maybe the saw Lewis breaking abnomrialy or brake testing...only putting it out there as a suggestion.

Personaly it was'nt a penalty, and the FIA have'nt done the sport any favours. Kubica is only 12 points behind, maybe if Lewis and Massa meet again in China then they could both end up in the gravel, leaving Kubica free to win the race and put in a three way battle for the title.

Lewis is showing himself not to good under these scenerio's where he just need to drive sensible and reduce the mistakes being made. He struggles to close a season out. Kubica for the title

Amen!

De la Rosa was right, if Kubica or Alonso had driven one of the top cars they would be the leaders of the championship by far. As I said, at least this year neither Massa or Hamilton deserve to win anything.

Too bad (at least for me) that one of them will, just cause they have a good car, not by driving merits.

Absolutely amazing how Alonso drove that car. 3rd fastest lap in a Renault! Congrats to Kubica too, flawless race. Nothing new, the 4 top drivers screwed up, neither Hamilton or Massa deserve that WDC. Kubica should win the title.

Quote from sam93 :

It will be the next race which will decide the WDC. If Hamilton wins this GP and the next GP he will be champion with one race remaining.

If Ferrari can't do anything in this race it's almost impossible to win. Mclaren won't screw up again.

This race will probably decide the WDC..

Ferrari are finally going back to the lollipop.

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Very interesting little article from Ted Kravitz on the ITV website http://www.itv-f1.com/Feature. ... =Ted_Kravitz&id=44141

Don't know if anyone mentioned this in the thread, although a few of us did wonder why Hamilton didn't push for 2nd. But, apparently Ron Dennis told him to settle for third, and according to Ted, Lewis was a bit miffed about it.

LOL @ Conspiracy, it's ridiculous.

Quote from sam93 :

Hamilton doesn't have a good attitude and is arrogant I will admit, but is Brits are arrogant imo. Hamilton is very fast and it adds atmosphere with his overtaking and such like. No one can deny that he isn't fast, when he first joined F1 he was fast I know some say its because he is driving a top teams car but you still need the talent to drive it quick. Piquet has been put into a Renault which isnt exactly slow as Alonso has proved by winning the WDC twice in a Renault and Piquet isn't quick whilst driving a Renault that with the right driver is a quick car, but saying that Piquet is crap So Hamilton has always been fast, I do think if he wins this years WDC it will give him a boost in confidence, even though he has a lot already, it seems that he still hasnt sorted out his confidence as he gets to the end of the season, he seems to get a little too nervous. Hamilton is always going to be at the front of the grid though and I think will be a multiple world champion, anyone agree?

Winning the WDC will probably just boost his arrogancy..

I demand more races like this one!

Quote from chanoman315 :

Well, they have the best out there, really, but making those mistakes it's because you are desperate... I would fire Hamilton for loosing the championship like he did last year.
Massa was perfect, except for the pitstop, i couldnt believe it.

He spun and went against the barrier.. And caused Fisichella's accident IRC..

Ferrari are screwing it really bad this year.. How can they keep those drivers there?

AWESOME drive by Alonso and Rosberg. The fact that the kerb's were falling off and the track so bumpy made it really interesting. I want more tracks like this, not the other bumpless, perfect and boring tracks. We need more hardcore action!

The track is an absolute mess. It's not even finished yet, the kerb's are not even stuck to the floor and it doesn't drain water (although this might be interesting for the race), the turns are full of puddles, actually the turns are just puddles when it rains.

And I lol'd at how Alonso and Piquet have to learn the track. The team gives them a map of it with the gears used (estimated) on each turn and straight and some youtube links showing it.

Quote from Mazz4200 :

I'm surprised he didn't have a go at Massa in the last few laps, but perhaps his tyres were shot to pieces at that stage so perhaps he showed a bit of maturity by backing off and settling for the points, we'll see.

He was gaining around 2 seconds per lap when he was behind Massa and as de la rosa said, he probably couldn't do more probably because of graining. You could see him recover a bit in the last 2 laps I think when another car was catching up behind him.

Awesome race by Vettel and Alonso. Hamilton was fast, but nothing impressive as he is on Mclaren.. And as always - dirty moves.

Kimi as always too, being fast in the last 5 laps. And Bourdais had bad luck..

First buy S2. Then search for the other 27348926346239 topics that have been posted about this.

How can I seriously respect a kid like this?

http://www.wheels24.co.za/Cont ... imi_doesnt_have_the_balls

This race is Massa's test.

Quote from diablo21 :

If it keeps raining the top 3 ones might have some problems.

hahaha

If it keeps raining the top 3 ones might have some problems.

Fisichella in Q2. o_O

Kimi in Ferrari until 2010.

That's nice Taavi

Quote from J.B. :

At the apex of the right hander? Are you kidding? He was trying to overtake and had much more momentum and braked much later. Are you saying he wasn't even supposed to try to overtake? When you're this far in front at the entry I don't see how or why you could possibly slow down enough to tuck in behind the other guy at the apex:

That pic shows nothing..

Something I never really thought about. Good suggestion.

Are you really that blind to see what happened in Monaco between Kimi and Sutil?

The conclusion is - bring gravel traps to EVERY single corner again. No passing straight through a chicane again, or at least put barriers and things to make it hard to go straight in a chicane and actually make them lose time, not gain.

Last edited by diablo21, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 11:33.