F1 Digest - Belgium GP
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What could have been a dull race was saved by the last few laps. Hamilton vs Raikkonen, McLaren vs Ferrari, and guess what? It’s not over yet. Hear all about it in this F1 Digest recap.
The Race
The start was good, and the middle was okay, but oh how wonderful the last few laps were. A little bit of rain makes all the difference and we saw a fierce battle for the lead before Raikkonen ended up in the wall. It doesn’t end there though, as the controversies, penalties and appeals will continue long after the drivers leave Belgium.
Conclusions
Whilst some of the quotes are irrelevant given penalties and a change of order, we can get the idea from most drivers. Some had frustrating days, Webber and Coulthard aren’t that happy, and Trulli and Glock faced a difficult start. But some had a great time even with the adversities, Vettel in particular still has a smile on his face.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pmScott Woodwiss said:
That was my thought too - how does an after-race drive through penalty automatically turn into 25 seconds?
September 7th, 2008 at 8:09 pmScott Woodwiss said:
right, now here is something no-one has seen yet. an ONBOARD view of the said incident from Hamilton’s point of view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70rXr2Mkq_M
September 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pmR.G (The Nurburgring/Sato/BMW Fan) said:
You can clearly see Hamilton looking over to see where Raikkonen was.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:26 pmSteven Roy said:
I disagree with the penalty but unlike Ferrari’s fine last race the 25 second added time is a legitimate penalty. The options for this sort of thing are a drive through, a 10 second stop and go, 25 seconds added to the race time or a 10 place grid penalty at the next race. Generally the 25 second penalty applies to anything that would have got a drive through but happened too late in the race for that penalty to be applied.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:57 pmRich said:
I like DeSeb’s cheerfulness! Alonso cannot count and Roberto did not ask to go into the pits - it was Nick who was astute enough (and the first driver) to take this risky strategy of changing tyres right at the end.
Personally I would have loved to have seen the STR’s right up in the points - but they showed the way to big brother team. Equal with Williams Toyota is not bad!
September 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pmJohn said:
I have watched my last F1 race,and I have been wacthing them man and boy,I am now 63.That farcical result in the Belgian makes me wonder if it a racial problem.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pmJohn D said:
What a total farce. The rule is ’shortcut the chicane and give back the position.’ He did just that, so why the penalty? This smacks of NASCAR-type field-leveling. If we want to do some port race penalizing, lets start with Kimi’s erratic driving.