Grand Prix Rejects

Stewart

Although given the story, I think it must have been on the exit road which extends beyond turn 13, so he might have still been within the circuit precinct. According to the Police, he was turning out of Lakeside Drive onto Fitzroy Street when he 'deliberately lost traction'. Timed spectacularly to ...

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Hope we have 2 or even 3 tire manufacturer, so that racing becomes exciting, different tires being better in different conditions..... races like Indianapolis 2003, China 2006 come to mind for Bridgestone v/s Michelin fights!! No thanks. We won't see exciting racing, we'll see teams using tyre manu...

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Rejects of the race are clearly The Stewards for letting Nico Rosberg get away with breaking the safety car delta and gaining positions. I really don't understand sometimes; they penalised 4 drivers in qualifying for not slowing down through the yellow flag zone, but allow Rosberg to exceed the safe...

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Possible late entry for reject of the race?

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/n ... 1150.shtml

FIA speed measurements potentially ruining the championship fight!

Stewart

If we have the current system used in 1999. Eddie Irvine would have won. Either way I am happy about this point system but with 26 cars would they change it slightly? Why should they change it? Points should be difficult to score, not be given out to any clown who can finish the race. Bear in mind ...

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Something stinks still, because this decision is so politically motivated. I find it very odd that Piquet didn't receive any punishment at all. I mean, even when he did spill the beans, he was still guilty of causing an intentional accident, hiding information, playing with information as he finds ...

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What it looks like to me is that the FIA, just take people for whatever they think they can realistically get. They knew McLaren could afford the 100,000,000 Euros so they spanked them with it. If McLaren was a team in a similar situation to Renault, they would have been hit with it. Also notice th...

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Why would Ferrari pay Raikkonen to race for Mclaren? Id say theyed sonner buy out his contract then let THAT happen. Ferrari wouldn't be paying Raikkonen to race for McLaren. Raikkonen has 1 year left of his Ferrari contract, during which he will supposedly be paid $49 million. Raikkonen is simply ...

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Is it even correct English? No, it's horrificly bad english, that doesn't make any sense, other than he was obviously pissed off I don't think Flav needs to be pissed off to speak in horrifically bad English! This post from SniffPetrol on Twitter amused me earlier: "We say 'hat'. He say 'Is li...

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Renault have just announced that Briatore and Symonds have left the team and that they will not contest the race fixing allegations next week.
No news stories yet, but it's all over the more reliable Twitter feeds.

Edit: Now on Autosport:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78668

Stewart

The telemetry's pretty conclusive, even without another lap to compare it to - full throttle is re-applied with the rear wheels still spinning, and remains applied until after impact with the wall. Also Renault's position isn't quite that "he did it on his own initiative", but "he ca...

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I'm convinced that this has now turned into a Flavio Briatore witch-hunt. To begin with, it seemed like a genuine investigation, given that the FIA only responded to the Piquets' claims. Now, two out of the three involved parties have been offered immunity, leaving Flav out in the cold. Max Mosely h...

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Having just read the article I noticed one "grey area". The FIA also received an impressive application from the BMW Sauber team. However, given that BMW has announced it will withdraw its support in 2010, there are still uncertainties regarding the future ownership of the team. Neverthel...

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Lewis Hamilton 653.5 Adrian Sutil 655.0 Kimi Räikkönen 662.0 Heikki Kovalainen 683.0 Rubens Barrichello 688.5 Jenson Button 687.0 Vitantonio Liuzzi 679.5 Fernando Alonso 677.5 Sebastian Vettel 682.0 Mark Webber 683.0 Jarno Trulli 703.0* Romain Grosjean 699.8* Robert Kubica 697.5* Giancarlo Fisichel...

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Someone on the PlanetF1 forums has posted a link to a PDF summarising the investigation, here: m Now, I don't know who wrote that, or where his facts come from, so please keep an open mind. However, if what is in that document is true, Symonds and Renault are toast. The telemetry data are particular...

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To me, it seems things are starting to swing back towards Renault being innocent. You don't start criminal proceedings against someone if you know that, actually, he is telling the truth. Flavio and Renault would set themselves up for all kinds of legal problems in return if it turns out that the Pi...

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This press release: http://www.fia.com/oldautomotive/issue4/sport/article2.html reveals that the $48 million bond was dropped completely for the 2008 season. Makes sense really, since that's a lot of cash to 'lend' to the FIA for a couple of years. I think that's the main reason we saw lots of 'new'...

Stewart

I thought they'd already dropped it from the $48 million figure? Can't remember what it was dropped to, though.

Stewart

The situation seems pretty simple to me. Drivers have never been penalised for running wide and gaining an advantage; only those cutting corners get a penalty. I realise that this isn't exactly clear in the regulations (since both scenarios involve gaining advantage by running off the track) but it ...

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Brundle implied that the device was unpopular among the drivers and should be heavily modified or done away with next year. I didn't understand this comment at all. The anti-stall is there to pull the clutch in when the system detects that the engine revs are dropping too fast and the engine is abo...

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If Renault are DQ'ed the result would be as follows... I might be wrong, but I'm sure I've read that race results can't be altered this long after the race. I think there's a cut-off for any appeals or penalties around the end of November of the same calendar year as the race. I'm trying to find th...

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Well, the fine is $50k too much as far as I'm concerned, but at least common sense has (mostly) prevailed.

Stewart

I for one thought Ferrari were brazen to the extreme in even asking for a test for Schumi. I was even more surprised when Howett and Haug came out in support of the idea. I completely agree with the teams that have opposed and, like many of you, can't believe how churlish Ferrari's response was, al...

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77551 Ferrari Statement on Official Site: m Is it me, or does the Ferrari statement sound it like was written by an angry 12 year old? Seriously right, Ferrari should take a step back and see why Williams, Red Bull, and Toro Rosso were rejecting the propo...

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Doesn't matter why he's being replaced, it doesn't matter that it's Schuey, if it's not allowed, it's not allowed. Hell, they're not even allowed to run current F1 cars at the festival of speed anymore. Too right. Its the rules. Testing is banned. That has dominated the way the whole season has pla...

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I think people need to remember just how dull the 60 minute, 12 lap sessions could be. Quite often the front-runners wouldn't bother going out for the first 30 minutes, as the tracks would get faster and faster throughout the session, so only laps done right at the end would count for anything. The ...

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It was at the end of Q2 , so they could just delay Q3. Yes, his crash happened right at the end of Q2, so the session was already over by the time the medical team arrived. Also, his car was well off the track and didn't pose an immediate threat to anyone. True, but it's pretty much standard proced...

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Either Renault failed to tell Alonso that there was something wrong with the car and that he should stop it, in which case Renault is entirely at fault and deserves this punishment. Or Alonso heard the team telling him to bin it, but he ignored it. In this case, it is clearly the fault of the drive...

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The video feed we get on the BBC (unless we're seeing any of the presenters) is simply the FOM feed which all channels get, so it's the FOM director who is responsible for which cameras are shown on the feed. Be thankful that the old system of having a director from the local TV station seems to hav...

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No team would send a driver out KNOWING he had a loose wheel. They said video and radio transmissions were studied, and found that Renault "knowingly" allowed the Spanish driver to rejoin the race with a loose wheel nut. The FIA officials also charged Renault with failing to inform Alonso...

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I'm sorry but as I posted in another thread, I was at Brands when Henry Surtees was KILLED by an errant wheel and debris from Barrichello's car badly injured Massa, and in this instance, Alonso had the opportunity to park the car, Renault could have told him to park the car... What's the alternativ...

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This is pathetic. No team would send a driver out KNOWING he had a loose wheel, for the simple reason that it would be better to keep him in the pits and fix it than to lose time on track. Renault messed up, nothing more, nothing less. The assertions in the FIA note that Renault willingly sent Alons...

Stewart

I think the FIA stewards have just made a stunning late entry to take RotR for Hungary:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77354

Pathetic.

Stewart

Some time ago I was concerned about efficacy of wheel tethers, and sadly I was right. (do F2 cars have any wheel tether??) Perhaps now isn't the time to get into a technical discussion, but I don't think you are right. This is from the FIA website regarding the new F2 series: Palmer said: “This was...

Stewart

I've just seen this article posted on another forum:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/11148/vicky-chandhok-running-fia-presidents.html

This could pave the way nicely for Karun's entry into F1!

Stewart

As of Germany, there are currently 12 race winners out of a field of 20. Have we ever had either that high an amount of race winners in the field before, or that high a percentage? Button Barrichello Webber Vettel Raikkonen Massa Hamilton Kovalainen Fisichella Trulli Alonso Kubica And then Glock, P...

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Why are people blaming Raikkonen for Sutil's accident? Kimi made a legitimate passing manoeuver and Sutil understeered into Raikkonen's car. It was a racing incident, nothing more, nothing less. If anything, I'd put the blame more on Sutil for being too cautious into T1 and for not keeping clear of ...

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WeirdKerr wrote:Hungary '06 was NOT Honda's first win...

noisebox wrote:Wasn't Honda's first win.

DonTirri wrote:I know i'm the third one saying this but Button's wasnt hondas first.

Hondas first win came in 1965 in mexico by Richie Ginther.

Oops! Yeah, as soon as I read the first reply I remembered Honda's wins in the 60s.

Stewart

Off the top of my head, Jenson Button - Honda in 2006, Brawn in 2009. After some digging around: Juan-Manuel Fangio won Maserati's first GP at Monza in 1953 and Mercedes' first GP at Reims in 1954. Like Vettel, they were in consecutive years! Dan Gurney won Brabham's first GP at Rouen in 1964, and a...

Stewart

A bit more emerging - 2009 regs to be carried forward (does that mean refuelling is back in) and established teams to help new teams with their engines and chassis - sounds like customer cars to me. The 2010 rules will be the 2009 rules, plus some changes made before 29th April 2009. I don't have t...

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