Oh, of course. Because Massa is now the new "villain" of Formula 1 (at least according to the majority of McLaren and Hamilton fans I encounter in my day-to-day business), it is absolutely inconceivable that he simply caughy him by accident. My mistake... 
Look. He took the option that he thought would cost him the least, just as Hamilton did in Spa. Hamilton could have backed off and gone around the corner properly there, but he didn't. Or is it completely different because he's driving a silver car and can, so I'm told, do little wrong?
If you seriously think that Massa deliberately tried to take Hamilton out of the race, perhaps I respect you far more than I should.
The situation was closer today that what it was in Belgium. There, Hamilton was caught out by Raikkonen braking so early, had to swerve to avoid him, was slightly ahead of him going into the corner and was close to Raikkonen, who give him no room to stay on the circuit anyway. Today, however, Massa completely out-braked himself while being ahead of Hamilton, was well and truly of the racing line and was sufficiently far away from Hamilton and ahead of Massa in dry conditions to negotiate the corner without using the run-off area. Having watched the incident several times now, perhaps Massa was not trying to shunt Hamilton off the circuit, but he was certainly trying to slip up beside him to gain an advantage - something which he himself criticised Hamilton for supposedly doing at Spa. Deliberate? Unlikely - I take back what I said in this regard - but that was one of the most stupid pieces of driving I've seen this season - and there has been a lot of gaffes. To be honest, I can't recall a championship where the contenders made so many stupid mistakes.
Nor can I, which is why I feel that Kubica would be far more deserving than any of the guys at McLaren or Ferrari this year. I am hoping that now, with only 12 points between himself and Hamilton, he can pull it off. He's made only a single error this year, at Silverstone. There are two races with plenty of potential for Ferrari and McLaren to have problems and for Kubica to capitalise on. If there's a repeat of the mistakes from the past few races, it could quite easily be his.
Yes, he probably was trying to slip up the side to keep as close as possible and his execution of it was all very poor. But it was his best option. He had run so wide that if he was to try to go round the corner properly, Raikkonen would have been able to pass him if he had not first made contact with him. Yes it was a stupid piece of driving, I do not disagree with that, but we have seen so much of it from nearly every driver other than Kubica, Alonso, Heidfeld and Webber this season that, really, it can't have much more of an effect on the embarrassing performances of most of the grid.
His options were:
- Do what he did.
- Carry on going, thus cutting the chicane, and risk getting a penalty.
- Slow down and try to take the corner properly, probably causing an accident with Raikkonen who was quite close when Massa started to turn in.
- Stop and wait for all the cars to go past, losing a lot of positions in the process.
I do not doubt that hitting Lewis was not a deliberate act from Massa. He simply chose the option that would likely lose him the least places and the least time and, unfortunately, couldn't quite manage to keep his car away from Lewis'.
Piffle.
Oh, of course. Because Massa is now the new "villain" of Formula 1 (at least according to the majority of McLaren and Hamilton fans I encounter in my day-to-day business), it is absolutely inconceivable that he simply caughy him by accident. My mistake...
Look. He took the option that he thought would cost him the least, just as Hamilton did in Spa. Hamilton could have backed off and gone around the corner properly there, but he didn't. Or is it completely different because he's driving a silver car and can, so I'm told, do little wrong?
If you seriously think that Massa deliberately tried to take Hamilton out of the race, perhaps I respect you far more than I should.
I don't think Massa did it deliberately but he came of far too well from what ensued.
He at least should of had a 10 sec stop then go and for his actions against seb he should of recived a 25 sec grind penalty.
Why? Kovalainen tried to pull off a half-hearted attempt at passing Webber at Spa, subsequently causing an avoidable accident and putting Webber down the field with little chance of a decent result. He got a drive-through penalty. So, why should Massa's have been any greater than that? The only time that a greater penalty has been applied for such a result is when those responsible have not been able to finish the race, the penalty being a ten-place grid drop (see Hamilton at Montreal and Nakajima at Melbourne). The Massa-Bourdais incident was not worthy of a penalty in either direction.
WHAT! 
