The Motorsport Thread (was the F1 thread)

Tony R wrote: Wait, it's not over yet! Inquiry casts doubt on F1 title BMW's cars held up Hamilton during the race Kimi Raikkonen's world title has been thrown into doubt following an inquiry into the cars of BMW Sauber and Williams at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Race stewards are investigating alleged irregularites with the cars' fuel. Williams's Nico Rosberg was fourth in the race, followed by BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld. If they were disqualified, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton would be promoted to fourth, giving him enough points to displace Raikkonen as world champion.

Reading the Braz newspapers now... race officials saw nothing with BMW and Williams fuel and so Kimi may celebrate his title.

Tony R wrote: Morally the title is Hamilton's. He's had his season derailed by his arrogant and unsporting co-driver Alonso. Alonso has behaved despicably to his young team mate. I hope he doesnt get a drive next season, he's certainly out of McClaren. Imagine blackmailing your own team like he did - if you wrote the story in a novel people would say it was unrealistic,yet it happened.

British fanboy
But I do agree....there's NO way to twist it Hamilton was the best driver this year. He deserved the title.
However, it's obvious how I like Finnish drivers so personally I am very happy with the championship. Again congrats to Kimi (maybe this title is not quite the way it should've gone down, but I think he already should've been champ) sooo it's even now.

What a season

sleeper wrote: Its still not over. McLaren are to appeal the stewards decision not to punish Williams and BMW over fuel irregularities in an attempt to get the three cars ahead of Hamilton thrown out. http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=41157 This is getting a bit silly, as much as I'd like to see Hamilton win the title, the season finished yesterday, I dont want it to finish in a court room

I agree. I didn't want the title to be won this way (it's clear that Massa could've won the race had he wanted to) but taking the situation to a courtroom is not the way to win a championship.

Sean Trane wrote: Tony R wrote: Morally the title is Hamilton's. He's had his season derailed by his arrogant and unsporting co-driver Alonso. Alonso has behaved despicably to his young team mate. I hope he doesnt get a drive next season, he's certainly out of McClaren. Imagine blackmailing your own team like he did - if you wrote the story in a novel people would say it was unrealistic,yet it happened.     You mean Ferrari finally got a lucky revenge (it was a bit unexpected) but Raikkonen did win 6 races, compared to Hamilton's four and Alonso's four). Afte all the FIAA was making rules to stop Ferrari winning in their Schumacher days.  Hamilton will most likely not confirm (as had Monoya a few years go)   As for Alonso, McLaren was disgracious (almost as much as Malcolm was)  into favoring homeboy Hamilton instead of the Champion.  And their industrial spying was not helping out their case.     The sad part is that they released Alonso three days after resigning Massa and Raikkonnen, and now Alonso doesn't have a competitive seat. They would've done it on purpose, they wouldn't have done it differently.

Hamilton has effectively been their for 10 years, Alonso was the new boy in the team, and both drivers got equale treatment in regards to race equipment and chances to use it. However, it was no secret that by the end McLaren would definitely have prefered Hamilton winning the title instead of Alonso, after all, I dont remember Hamilton trying to blackmail the team into giving him preferential treatment or spouting off about percieved injustices to the home press.

Kimi was the best driver and thoroughly deserved the title. He's always been an incredible talent and truly showed what it means to never give up. Also a nice guy with a good amount of humour in him as well, this is just great and (almost) the whole country is celebrating along with him.

Hamilton needn't feel too bad about it; he has so many years ahead of him and surely he'll win the championship in the near future.

Logos wrote: Kimi was the best driver and thoroughly deserved the title. He's always been an incredible talent and truly showed what it means to never give up. Also a nice guy with a good amount of humour in him as well, this is just great and (almost) the whole country is celebrating along with him. Hamilton needn't feel too bad about it; he has so many years ahead of him and surely he'll win the championship in the near future.

Edited by JJLehto - October 22 2007 at 16:53

^ Damn, that's quite a claim....
Well I know it's all in retrospect and "what if" but I do think Kimi should've won the title in 2003, and possibly 2005.

He is a son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoats, what do you expect?

uh oh   are we getting into the politics of F1?