People seem to be failing at reading the rule.

"If the race ends while the safety car is deployed it will enter the pit lane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking."

The important part being here:

"it will enter the pit lane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking."

..which is exactly what happened. And exactly what Schumacher didn't do. So he was punished as per the rule, where's the confusion? All this nonsense about safety car lines and flags is completely irrelevant. It's right there written in the rule, black and white, no gray whatsoever.

Highlight of the race for me was Alonso's opportunistic move on Massa coming into the pitlane - that just epitomises what Ferrari have been missing the last few years.

re: penalties, I think the discussion should be less about the pit release, that's pretty common and is a mixed bag as to whether it gets punished, but that fact the Hamilton turned around and drove pretty much drove the wrong way to get into the pitlane.. how the hell he didn't get penalised for that i'll never know

I liked the general lenience of penalties this race - racing incidents should be racing incidents, let the drivers sort things out among themselves. But that was just reckless and dangerous.

Oh hell, the 2012 apocalypse has come early!

Er, I think the more pressing question here is.. where the hell does his guitar vanish to at the end?

I ate 5 jaffa cakes in a minute

It's harder than it sounds, believe me

That's right, you all thought the F1 season was over and there was nothing left to fight for at Abu Dhabi - not so! The Official Formula One For Sure World Championship is very much alive and kicking..

"Sitting in the Thursday press conference alongside team mate Rubens Barrichello and Red bull's Sebastian Vettel, Jenson dominated proceedings - refusing to allow anybody else to utter 'for sure' - and claiming all nine 'for sure's' for himself. That alone was enough to take him from third place in to second, within striking distance of Vitantonio Liuzzi.

However, the appearance of a third driver from Ferrari in the Friday conference scuppered the Brawn strategy, as Felipe Massa took full advantage of the unexpected conditions to do just enough to stay ahead of the Briton."

http://www.f1network.net/main/s169/st150763.htm

My congratulations for inventing levitating string, this is truly a momentous day for humanity

To be fair Kobayashi did do a little bit of winter testing before this season - but still, the best debutant this season by far. I like him, came straight in and showed no quarter to the WDC-in-waiting, he apparently has the expanded ball collection of a karter

Were they brazil nuts?




Yeah.. I'll be in the corner

Hatemelol's Law: Any internet F1 discussion will inevitably become a Lewis Hamilton discussion

Barrichello lends Button his plane

What a nice chap - shame he didn't win, but ohwell, Button's drive was worthy of the title!

To be fair, against the only vaguely valid yardstick - that being his teammate - Button's been doing pretty poorly recently

He wasn't fit, he was suffering from a virus, as was half the Toyota team

Uh, no it's not a lie, Kobayashi ran both Friday practice sessions

The cricket game on that site is pretty addictive.. and not quite as infuriating

http://www.foddy.net/Cricket.html

Death to the myth that Alonso and Hamilton don't like eachother!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYq4TUCtNfo

:ices_rofl

Spies joins MotoGP with Tech 3 in 2010

It's been a week for worst kept secret driver/rider announcements in F1 and MotoGP.. but hey, they're darn good announcements!

And on Autosport

Sweeeeeet!

Now, commence the rest of the driver jigsaw puzzle falling into place..

Whoa, the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission has come to the LFS forum

I'm interested to see what the evidence against Symonds and Flav is that caused them to bolt without a fight. The full transcripts of radio conversations are released and show absolutely nothing so.. shrug

Anyway, bye Flav!

Does anyone know if the practice sessions will be replayed on the red button? They haven't been for the last 2 races, BBC are slacking!

Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan

I come bearing proof, fresh from those reliable intelligence lines of the internet

Hey guys, did you know that Roger Moore once gave birth to a tea cosy and named it Prudence? I posted it on the internet so it must be true!