tomorrow is the day

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What a horrendous surprise.

Not.

F1 is fast losing any remaining sporting content. I feel for Massa if he ends up world champion this year, as it will be tainted for years if he wins by less than 3 points, and it was no fault of his own.

[TSC.]

What a load of bull...

.... How come you can't appeal against a drive through penalty?

Surely this gives stewards a free reign to hand out drive through penalties without fear of having to justify the decision.

TSC.

[expat]

What a load of bull....... How come you can't appeal against a drive through penalty?TSC.

Good question :-?

Well no real surprises really. Still should keep the motor sport forums going for years.

Matt

[TigerAl]

You can't appeal a drive through penalty as it has to be taken in the race.

[Celtman]

Posted on another forum - made me laugh

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Also, this made me laugh too
http://www.sniffpetrol.com/2008/09/12/420/

Celtman 8-)


Edit: And this

Following unfortunate misunderstandings in the Grands Prix at Valencia and Spa, the FIA has revised the Red Car Rule for Formula 1. These amendments will be applied with immediate effect:

1) Overtaking a Ferrari is not permitted under any circumstances.

2) In the pit lane, a Ferrari always has precedence over other cars.

3) Any driver finishing less than 25 seconds ahead of a Ferrari will be penalized 25 seconds.*

4) If neither Ferrari finishes in first place, the stewards reserve the right to declare the result null and void (or to adjust it as necessary).

5) Only Ferrari drivers are permitted to use anything other than

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Just shows that they couldn't face having to adjudge the actual matter in question. One has to say the panel has rather taken the easy way out in saying the appeal was not admissable.

Another sad day for F1. No surprise considering it was a team very familiar with visits FIA HQ?

[TSC.]

a team very familiar with visits FIA(T) HQ?

[todayshorse]

What a load of rubbish. I still dont get the bit where they cant decide if the appeal is allowed to go ahead, so then hear the appeal anyway, then decide there can be no appeal ::)

And im fed up of all the 'slipstreaming' nonense over on autosport forums, and the 'dirty driving' that constantly spouts forth from the same forums.

Go Hamilton i say, i hope this makes him even more determined than he already was to win the wdc this season. Im behind him 110%.

However, i wonder what else will 'occour' over the next few races....

[TSC.]

Rumour has it that Mclaren have stopped all deveopment of the 2009 car.

They will now use a much smaller budget to paint Lewis white during race weekends - sources say that this should be enough to win the championship next year.

TSC.

[MWISimmer]

^^^^LMAO^^^^

 ;D  ;D

[Craig.]

Ignoring the clearly unfair bashing of Ferrari (remember they were happy for Lewis to keep his points, they saw it as racing )

 Have the FIA, F1 FOM or whomever shots themselves in the foot with all these modern tracks? And by giving exsisting tracks tarmac runoffs. They assured fans that it would be better, they assured us that cars wouldn't use them for advantage. Yet numerous times in the past few years we've seen the opposite. Is it time they start bringing back the gravel traps. We've seen these runoff areas dont actually slow cars down any better than gravel traps, and the excuse that at least the car wont roll over, is rubbish as its a very rare occurance. I dont think the walls should be moved closer that is dangerous, but I do think a few more gravel traps in braking areas and acceleration area's like the new bus stop, will prevent any chance of this happening again.

[C]

Ignoring the clearly unfair bashing of Ferrari (remember they were happy for Lewis to keep his points, they saw it as racing )

No one's bashing Ferrari. We're bashing the FIAT, sorry, FIA...

As I said, Ferrari are the ones who are most likely to have to deal with the cynicism and stigma off the unwashed masses (like us) should they win the drivers championship by a narrow margin from LH.

[expat]

Ignoring the clearly unfair bashing of Ferrari (remember they were happy for Lewis to keep his points, they saw it as racing ).

But they still sent a rather large and powerful legal team to the meeting and by most accounts said legal team (tried) to give Hamilton a rough time of it................but they where happy for him to keep his points

Matt