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2 Apr 2009, 10:24 (Ref:2431216)
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Hamilton stripped of third
Lewis Hamilton has been disqualified from the Australian GP for misleading race officials
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/020420...ralian-gp.html Seriously, this stuff is getting stupid. |
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2 Apr 2009, 10:29 (Ref:2431222)
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Not just Lewis, but McLaren as well.
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2 Apr 2009, 10:29 (Ref:2431223)
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Wuh?
Why not disqualify everyone. That makes just as much sense. |
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2 Apr 2009, 10:36 (Ref:2431228)
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It's hard to know why the stewards have changed their decision without seeing transcripts of the hearings and radio transmissions along with footage of the incident.
But, if Hamilton and McLaren did indeed intend to deliberately mislead the stewards, they deserve their disqualifications. |
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2 Apr 2009, 10:38 (Ref:2431230)
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F1 is becoming less and less about sport with every passing race
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2 Apr 2009, 10:39 (Ref:2431232)
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I'm getting depressed about this kind of thing now.
Is it the FIA for being completly incompetant? They had the radio exchanges at the time. How did they not think to bl00dy listen to them? Hamilton even asked BBC if the they had heard them because he thought they backed him up not the other way round. Are McLaren to blame? The team seem incapable of not making stupid errors within itself. How many more times to I have to watch a race just to tune in two weeks later to find out the proper result? F1 could have gathered a whole new fan set this year - colleagues and friends with previoussly no interest have told me how they watched and enjoyed the race - this is all being peed right up the wall. Thoughts in the office today from the same people? Why do I watch something when the result of the race has no meaning? Pathetic. |
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2 Apr 2009, 10:41 (Ref:2431236)
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MMMM!!!!!!! Come the 14th half the field might be - Button and Barrichello and others could go yet ! - If the appeal throws them out who would have won ? - For the first time in years, I thought GP had become more interesting again - now with all these off track changes to the results , I'm losing interest again |
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2 Apr 2009, 10:42 (Ref:2431238)
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It's depresing and puts me off what ever. I love Formula One - but I just don't know at the minute why I bother. |
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2 Apr 2009, 10:47 (Ref:2431243)
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Err, anyone know where my thread/post on this very subject went?
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2 Apr 2009, 10:53 (Ref:2431249)
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So many questions.
1) Why would Hamilton say something deliberately incorrect to the stewards when he knows it's all in a radio transcript and he can easily be proved wrong. 2) Why are the safety cars rules so open to interpretation -STILL? 3) Why does 'misleading' the stewards lead to disqualification? Esp. in this case where the driver involved was asked there by the stewards, and was not part of a protest by his team. 4) Did Hamilton do anything wrong on track? At all? 5) Why do the stewards think all this mess is a good idea? 6) Some other stuff I dont have time to ask. |
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2 Apr 2009, 11:00 (Ref:2431255)
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See comments on the Stewards thread, they are now messing with drivers heads, instinctive racing must be affected and teams should insist on fully permanent stewards with proper on track racing experience.
This will ruin racing if it continues, Spa was simply WRONG and we are seeing the result here. In any stewards hearing any driver will put spin on his comments, it is to be expected and the stewards must have sufficient experience to see through the biased comments and select what they see as the truth and then stick to it. I was disgusted at the decision of the Grand Am stewards after Daytona to allow an under weight car to win a race but I think I prefer that poor decision to this farce. 
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2 Apr 2009, 11:01 (Ref:2431257)
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I'm closing this thread. Amendment to the Sack the Stewards thread title coming up... |
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