To all those who say Ferrari...
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To all those who say Ferrari...
News flash you people who clain Ferrari is always the FIA darling that gets special treatment - LH does not drive for Ferrari...
I too am irritated by this situation, and all I can say is it is a darn good thing LH finished outside the points!
I too am irritated by this situation, and all I can say is it is a darn good thing LH finished outside the points!
Newspaper slams unfair treatment for Hamilton
Monday, 23 July 2007
The Spanish press has reacted with irritation to what it describes as a "favour for Hamilton" by the Nurburgring marshals on Sunday. Spain's always partisan newspaper Diario As, whose countryman Fernando Alonso closed to within two points of his McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton by winning the European grand prix on Sunday, reckons the track-workers behaved unfairly after Briton Hamilton slid off the circuit. "With a crane they helped him get going again while the rest of those in the gravel, like Scott Speed, watched in amazement because their cranes took them away from the track rather than back to it," the newspaper marvelled. 'As' claims the preferential treatment partly explains why Speed's team Toro Rosso refused to make its usual official comments in a post-race press release. Jenson Button (Honda), Adrian Sutil (Spyker), Nico Rosberg (Williams) and Vitantonio Liuzzi (STR) similarly aquaplaned at turn one, but only Hamilton was able to return to the track.
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Monday, 23 July 2007
The Spanish press has reacted with irritation to what it describes as a "favour for Hamilton" by the Nurburgring marshals on Sunday. Spain's always partisan newspaper Diario As, whose countryman Fernando Alonso closed to within two points of his McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton by winning the European grand prix on Sunday, reckons the track-workers behaved unfairly after Briton Hamilton slid off the circuit. "With a crane they helped him get going again while the rest of those in the gravel, like Scott Speed, watched in amazement because their cranes took them away from the track rather than back to it," the newspaper marvelled. 'As' claims the preferential treatment partly explains why Speed's team Toro Rosso refused to make its usual official comments in a post-race press release. Jenson Button (Honda), Adrian Sutil (Spyker), Nico Rosberg (Williams) and Vitantonio Liuzzi (STR) similarly aquaplaned at turn one, but only Hamilton was able to return to the track.
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and what the hell was the deal with Kimi's car?
they're saying it was hydraulic, but it sure looked like he ran out of gas...why didn't they push him to his pits?? i mean, the guy was RIGHT THERE! that was annoying to watch....
they're saying it was hydraulic, but it sure looked like he ran out of gas...why didn't they push him to his pits?? i mean, the guy was RIGHT THERE! that was annoying to watch....
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Originally Posted by Triple-H,Jul 23 2007, 03:14 PM
News flash you people who clain Ferrari is always the FIA darling that gets special treatment - LH does not drive for Ferrari...
I too am irritated by this situation, and all I can say is it is a darn good thing LH finished outside the points!
I too am irritated by this situation, and all I can say is it is a darn good thing LH finished outside the points!
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Maybe Hamilton was the only one who managed to keep his engine running at that corner? Dunnno.
Anyway, the officials should have red-flagged the race immediately when the third or fourth car ended up in that corner. It was a very dangerous situation - heck, even the safety car nearly got hit! Doing the SC for a few laps, and then later red-flagging the race was, IMO, the wrong approach.
Anyway, the officials should have red-flagged the race immediately when the third or fourth car ended up in that corner. It was a very dangerous situation - heck, even the safety car nearly got hit! Doing the SC for a few laps, and then later red-flagging the race was, IMO, the wrong approach.
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"F1's governing body has given Lewis Hamilton's controversial crane-lift out of the Nurburgring gravel trap a clean bill of health. Some observers had wondered if McLaren's championship leader and rookie sensation had received preferential treatment, after the similarly stricken cars of his rivals were hauled away from the track rather than back to it. But the Times says the FIA 'confirmed that the incident ... was legal'."
so, what's the next non pro-ferrari thing you guys wanna bitch about?
so, what's the next non pro-ferrari thing you guys wanna bitch about?
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^ no shit sherlock, we are asking why because in the past this was never seen and the opposite always happened. In fact I remember people bitching when MS was merely pushed out of the gravel by corner workers and everyone whined that he was illegally assisted, yet here we have a McLaren being picked up out of the gravel and allowed to rejoin while other are taken off the course....doesn't add up.
So answer the questions - why was Hamilton's car the only one moved? Why were the other cars not allowed to rejoin at the back of the grid when the race was stopped?
So answer the questions - why was Hamilton's car the only one moved? Why were the other cars not allowed to rejoin at the back of the grid when the race was stopped?
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Originally Posted by matrix,Jul 25 2007, 10:19 AM
I remember people bitching when MS was merely pushed out of the gravel by corner workers and everyone whined that he was illegally assisted