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[racechick]

You still cant spell it and you've had lessons!!

I actually tried what I was told and it did not work so there!
You know how many misspelling's I see everyday and some from you but I dont say anything because I get the point and this is a racing forum not online studies .

I know. Im a crap speller and I hit the wrong keys all the time as well.

[f1ea]

You're sure? I thought it was Louise

Don't know for sure, according to Racehick its like the Jeans... so I'm going to trust her this time, because she is english so she knows better. Also she was quite unforgiving at my spelling, so must have been some very important spelling rule i was breaking there

Anyway... Racechick is cool. At least we can rejoice together those Juan Pablo moments

[racechick]

You're sure? I thought it was Louise

Don't know for sure, according to Racehick its like the Jeans... so I'm going to trust her this time, because she is english so she knows better. Also she was quite unforgiving at my spelling, so must have been some very important spelling rule i was breaking there

Anyway... Racechick is cool. At least we can rejoice together those Juan Pablo moments

Sure can No probs with your spelling, mines crap. Its just its his name.

[EwanM]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/68573

Hamilton reluctantly accepts penalty

By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde Sunday, June 22nd 2008, 16:31 GMT


Lewis Hamilton reluctantly accepted his second penalty in two races after he was given a drive-through at the French Grand Prix.

The Briton, already serving a penalty for hitting Kimi Raikkonen at the Canadian Grand Prix, was given the drive-through for overtaking Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel by cutting across a chicane.

The penalty ruined all his chances of scoring points in France, and the McLaren driver had to settle for 10th position.

Hamilton said he had no choice but to accept the penalty, although he felt he had not done anything wrong.

"I feel cool. It's all good. Racing is racing. I'm still here, there's nothing you can do to get me out of it," Hamilton told reporters after the race.

"I don't particularly feel I did anything. I went into the corner. I believe I was ahead on the outside and I couldn't turn in on the guy, otherwise we would have crashed so I took the outside line, lost the back on the marbles and went over the kerb.

"I continued because I don't believe I overtook him by going over the kerb, I actually took him before that."

He added: "I kept pushing. There's nothing you can do that can distract me. You can keep on giving me penalties and whatever you want to do and I'll keep battling and try and come back with a result."

Hamilton, who made contact with teammate Heikki Kovalainen while trying to recover ground on the first lap, has not scored any points in the last two races.

"I did everything I needed to do, I stayed out of trouble and drove what I thought was a fair race," added Hamilton. "We just missed the points, so that's three races now without scoring points but there's still 10 races to go."

He added: "I had quite a good start, but there were about four people abreast in front of me so I took it easy. I was able to overtake a few people in turn five and I thought I overtook reasonably fairly into turn seven.

"Going in I was ahead but I lost the back end and to correct it I corrected it and I went over the kerb which I don't particularly see as cheating, but rules are rules."

Hamilton is now ten points behind championship leader Felipe Massa.

[Jensonb]

Hamilton said he had no choice but to accept the penalty, although he felt he had not done anything wrong.

"I feel cool. It's all good. Racing is racing. I'm still here, there's nothing you can do to get me out of it," Hamilton told reporters after the race.

"I don't particularly feel I did anything. I went into the corner. I believe I was ahead on the outside and I couldn't turn in on the guy, otherwise we would have crashed so I took the outside line, lost the back on the marbles and went over the kerb.

"I continued because I don't believe I overtook him by going over the kerb, I actually took him before that."

He added: "I kept pushing. There's nothing you can do that can distract me. You can keep on giving me penalties and whatever you want to do and I'll keep battling and try and come back with a result."

[EwanM]

Hamilton said he had no choice but to accept the penalty, although he felt he had not done anything wrong.

"I feel cool. It's all good. Racing is racing. I'm still here, there's nothing you can do to get me out of it," Hamilton told reporters after the race.

"I don't particularly feel I did anything. I went into the corner. I believe I was ahead on the outside and I couldn't turn in on the guy, otherwise we would have crashed so I took the outside line, lost the back on the marbles and went over the kerb.

"I continued because I don't believe I overtook him by going over the kerb, I actually took him before that."

He added: "I kept pushing. There's nothing you can do that can distract me. You can keep on giving me penalties and whatever you want to do and I'll keep battling and try and come back with a result."

See that's what annoys me, he keeps saying "rules are rules" but he just can't say that and accept it, always gotta ad he against it.
Wouldn't be that if any of his title rivals were suffering... He'd be all smug.

[McLaren Fan]

The call was very marginal. As I said on another thread, there was an issue with FIA communication. The authorities should have been on the ball and radioed McLaren straight away to tell them to let Vettel past. Instead, they waited for a few laps until Hamilton was off in the distance, so it was completely impractical to allow Vettel to past.

[Hanwombat]

FIA

[darwin dali]

The call was very marginal. As I said on another thread, there was an issue with FIA communication. The authorities should have been on the ball and radioed McLaren straight away to tell them to let Vettel past. Instead, they waited for a few laps until Hamilton was off in the distance, so it was completely impractical to allow Vettel to past.

It's the stewards and it takes them some time to review the case. So, McLaren is at fault - they should have smelled it and told LH to back off to let SV pass.

[McLaren Fan]

The call was very marginal. As I said on another thread, there was an issue with FIA communication. The authorities should have been on the ball and radioed McLaren straight away to tell them to let Vettel past. Instead, they waited for a few laps until Hamilton was off in the distance, so it was completely impractical to allow Vettel to past.

It's the stewards and it takes them some time to review the case. So, McLaren is at fault - they should have smelled it and told LH to back off to let SV pass.

The procedure is, as it has been in the past, is for the team to be contacted as soon as possible and told to let the overtaken car past. The incident was shown completely live from Hamilton's on-board camera, so authorities would've seen the incident immediately and been able to make that call.

[darwin dali]

The call was very marginal. As I said on another thread, there was an issue with FIA communication. The authorities should have been on the ball and radioed McLaren straight away to tell them to let Vettel past. Instead, they waited for a few laps until Hamilton was off in the distance, so it was completely impractical to allow Vettel to past.

It's the stewards and it takes them some time to review the case. So, McLaren is at fault - they should have smelled it and told LH to back off to let SV pass.

The procedure is, as it has been in the past, is for the team to be contacted as soon as possible and told to let the overtaken car past. The incident was shown completely live from Hamilton's on-board camera, so authorities would've seen the incident immediately and been able to make that call.

How many times have we seen the repass happening right away? That's not the stewards telling them, it's the teams themselves as a preventive action before the stewards get serious. Face it, McLaren dropped the ball here.

[billindenver]

It is NOT the teams fault. Any driver who has spent as much time behind the wheel as an F1 driver has clearly knows the rules, knows when he has broken them and knows he may or may not get away with it. A first year club racer learns passing rules in his first race, while still a newbie running on a provisional license. If hamilton is whining and says he didn't know then he is a lying tard who clearly believes his own hype. That pass wasn't even borderline...it was blatantly illegal. Clearly, completely, blatantly illegal and hamilton knew it. He took the chance that he wouldn't get caught (who amoung us hasn't tried that one) and it didn't pay off. Penalty assessed, and very much deserved.

[racechick]

It is NOT the teams fault. Any driver who has spent as much time behind the wheel as an F1 driver has clearly knows the rules, knows when he has broken them and knows he may or may not get away with it. A first year club racer learns passing rules in his first race, while still a newbie running on a provisional license. If hamilton is whining and says he didn't know then he is a lying tard who clearly believes his own hype. That pass wasn't even borderline...it was blatantly illegal. Clearly, completely, blatantly illegal and hamilton knew it. He took the chance that he wouldn't get caught (who amoung us hasn't tried that one) and it didn't pay off. Penalty assessed, and very much deserved.

Except it was a margnal call because he was past before he left the track.

[Rivelution]

This Lewis pass reminds me of Zanardi's pass on the corkscrew in 96.

[darwin dali]

It is NOT the teams fault. Any driver who has spent as much time behind the wheel as an F1 driver has clearly knows the rules, knows when he has broken them and knows he may or may not get away with it. A first year club racer learns passing rules in his first race, while still a newbie running on a provisional license. If hamilton is whining and says he didn't know then he is a lying tard who clearly believes his own hype. That pass wasn't even borderline...it was blatantly illegal. Clearly, completely, blatantly illegal and hamilton knew it. He took the chance that he wouldn't get caught (who amoung us hasn't tried that one) and it didn't pay off. Penalty assessed, and very much deserved.

I still think it was the team's responsibility to remind LH (who just had an adrenalin shot going through his veins with that little excursion) that he should let SV by. And they have the rule book right in front of them if needed while he doesn't. So, either they dropped the ball and didn't tell him or they told him and he didn't listen or they decided not to tell him and try to get away with it. I'd really like to listen to their audio communications after that incident. At any rate, duh, it didn't work!