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Korea's gone too.....and I seriously don't think we'll see New Jersey next year either.

 

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I'm having trouble working out which language the commentary is in....

So Grosjean's left wheels (and hence all four) are clearly outside the white line which defines the 'track limits' so that's an illegal pass - he gained a place while going outside the track limits (by not crashing) so he would have got no penalty if he then pulled over and let Massa repass him.

It's a lot to expect the driver to notice in the heat of the moment that he was two feet too far over to be OK, but that's what is expected.

It is of course the rule break for which Vettel was penalised last year (to take the lead from Hamilton in Germany, was it?), so the race stewards would not want to look lightly on it.

 

Kimi to Ferrari? They made him a bigger offer than Red Bull. He may like that better because there will be less media things required. But will Alonzo like having him there or is going to Red Bull or back to Lotus????

 

Massa has no prerogative to give Grosjean room on the outside. And the video does indeed show that the Lotus was well outside of the racing lane. Was the penalty a bit heavy, I think so but he did violate the rules.

 

Sadly this may be sound advice, as it appears that Alonso has been carrying Ferrari the last couple years....

This Ferrari fan fears that the Italians are in a slow slide back to where the were in the pre Schumacher years.....a solid third or fourth place team. Hopefully they will excel next year with the new formula, but they seem to lack that edge that a Newey has given RB in recent years...

The Ferrari allure for a driver is only trumped by the allure of a Championship....or a third in Alonso's case..

 

Sad but maybe true. I remember those years the Ferrari was could be fast but it was unreliable. Then the dream team came in and picked them up.

 

Monisha Kaltenborn was cagey in Hungary when questioned on Sauber's new backers | Sauber F1 News | Formula 1 Teams | Sky Sports

Now, I fully admit that my perceptions may be totally wrong, but typically Russian Technology has been "copy something we stole very faithfully" and "nail two things that work together." I'm betting the former in the case of F1.

Umm....... yeah...... about that......

 

A bit of irony when one considers all the complaints about the gentleman drivers at the24hr of LeMans in recent years, and the danger it presents at that level of racing...

And now we may have a Gentleman...er...check that, an adolescent driver possibly in the highest form of racing there is, F1...

Money talks, and racing in F1 takes a whole heap of it.....

 

Don't forget there were Gentlemen Teams too, to some extent. The last flowering was probably Hesketh Racing in the early 1970s (with James Hunt driving), who seemed to race with the principle that coming first in the races was a secondary team objective, with throwing the best parties and having the most fun as the main team objective. Heroic stuff, until the money ran out.....

 

Poor Jenson Button... I think I understand Lewis wanting to leave better now.

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He must have seen that they were just going to forfeit this year and work on the new car for 2014....

 

Hey, you don't have to watch frequent TV adverts involving Jenson and Checo!

I can't work out whether Jenson just won't try to act the parts he's given or if he really is a monumentally awful actor. Either way, the adverts are cringe-worthy.

 

He's not bad in the McLaren Tooned episodes.....


Oh, wait..........