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[stonemonkey]

Grosean getting stuck in the gravel made me think of something, in Spain when Hamilton completed his qualifying lap without enough fuel to make it back to the pits with enough left over for the sample what would have happened if he'd driven into a gravel trap and beached it instead of stopping on the track?

[andrew]

You mean deliberately ditching the car? I guess that would come under causing an avoidable accident.

[CookinFlat6]

Simple, his tanks would have been drained and if he had less than was needed to get back, he would have probably been excluded from the whole weekend or banned for a few races

[stonemonkey]

well he would have to make it look convincing, probably quite difficult in the dry on an in lap.

[darwin dali]

well he would have to make it look convincing, probably quite difficult in the dry on an in lap.

He's pretty good at that though - the making it look convincing bit
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[stonemonkey]

ok, maybe best to leave that sort of thing up to schumacher.

[andrew]

I don't think Schumacher ever drove into the back of a bright red stationary car in the pitane.

[What's Burning?]

2008... wasn't that the year Lewis won the WDC, even after that scenario?

[stonemonkey]

I don't think Schumacher ever drove into the back of a bright red stationary car in the pitane.

he has had a few 'spins' in quali though. What hamilton did in Canada takes a special kind of talent.

[andrew]

I don't think Schumacher ever drove into the back of a bright red stationary car in the pitane.

he has had a few 'spins' in quali though. What hamilton did in Canada takes a special kind of talent.

It was a bit odd indeed.

[stonemonkey]

I don't think Schumacher ever drove into the back of a bright red stationary car in the pitane.

he has had a few 'spins' in quali though. What hamilton did in Canada takes a special kind of talent.

It was a bit odd indeed.

Not trying to make excuses, his fault and pretty stupid but thought at the time he could've been distracted by the 2 cars going down the pitlane next to each other and not paying attention to the lights.

[CookinFlat6]

It was his second year in F1 and the whole business of traffic lights was recent and he hadnt been briefed properly. These situations are sometimes referred to as 'rookie mistakes' or chalked down to inexperience.

Some drivers ofcourse continue to make such mistakes well into their careers, like Button stopping at the wrong pit, Alonso spinning out in the rain or crashing his car in FP3, Coulthard crashing on formation lap,

[andrew]

I don't think Schumacher ever drove into the back of a bright red stationary car in the pitane.

he has had a few 'spins' in quali though. What hamilton did in Canada takes a special kind of talent.

It was a bit odd indeed.

Not trying to make excuses, his fault and pretty stupid but thought at the time he could've been distracted by the 2 cars going down the pitlane next to each other and not paying attention to the lights.

The insurance claim form would have made an interesting read.

[stonemonkey]

I don't think Schumacher ever drove into the back of a bright red stationary car in the pitane.

he has had a few 'spins' in quali though. What hamilton did in Canada takes a special kind of talent.

It was a bit odd indeed.

Not trying to make excuses, his fault and pretty stupid but thought at the time he could've been distracted by the 2 cars going down the pitlane next to each other and not paying attention to the lights.

The insurance claim form would have made an interesting read.

'I was sitting stationary at the lights when the Ferrari in front rolled back and hit me writing both cars off.'

[LewEngBridewell]

Robert Kubica must have been p!ssing himself, whilst sat patiently next to the carnage....