Official F1/Motorsport thread

[Shez]

That could have been horrible. Was the driver of the 99 car ok?

Aye he was fine, he actually jumped out of the car and ran across the fnish line.

[Dazzyman]

Theirs also the option of having incar with option 2 and at end of race you can have the forum where Brundle etc.. sit down and talk about it all.

[Roddie]

I've had it before on Freeview but it seems like there were less streams this weekend because of the (bloody) snooker..

I wish there was a way of getting Croft & Brundle, although Davidson is pretty good.

Yeah I've heard Davidson commenting on the practice sessions. Think it would be great to have him and Brundle together. Obviously anyone is improvement on James Allen, but I'm really not a fan of Legard, he doesn't really seem to have any special knowledge on F1 at all. I used to moan about Steve Rider, but four races with Jake Humphrey have got me wishing we could go back. I think replacing Eddie Jordan with Mike Gascoyne seems like an obvious opportunity.

[Alastair]

Imagine if the medals system had been implemented this year as it so nearly was. With 3 wins from the first 4 races and a 17 race season Button would only need to win 3 more with a couple of other drivers picking up a solitary win and he'd be pretty much untouchable. I'm glad that never came about.

[VR46]

Good point Alastair, over a 17 race season, I doubt you'd even need 7 race wins to be WDC via the medals system - the season could have been over by June if Bernie had his way lol.

[VR46]

So, what penalty do we reckon McLaren will get tomorrow? (Weds), a decision should be made before the end of the day.

All sounds very serious when you read the "charges" in black and white.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8020475.stm

I haven't a clue what will happen really.

[abigsmurf]

The problem is, all five of those charges seem to be true with no wiggle room. It's just a case of how harsh they think the punishment for those should be.

[Malc]

And the FIA have never really got on well with Mclaren, coupled with the spy scandal and they could get a serious punishment of some sort.

[Richard.John]

But MB have hinted that they may consider their future, if the punishment is too draconian so we will see. Obviously Bernie is hoping for a slap on the wrist. I reckon it will be a race(s) ban, like BAR had a couple of years ago.

[VR46]

You're probably right Richard, whatever it is, going to make it harder for LH to retain his title for sure.

[Alastair]

Same as last time isn't it? The sport has once again been brought into disrepute. Fine and loss of constructors points or maybe exclusion from the constructors championship. Difference this time is that Lewis was well and truly involved so I think he should be punished too, will that happen, I don't know, personally I think it should though.

[VR46]

I think so too, he's a grown man and all that. But he's not mentioned in any of the charges so can see him getting away with it .. unless McLaren are banned from racing for a couple of races.

[Richard.John]

Lewis should be punished, if you go by what it says on the Beeb's F1 page. He is complicit , as he kept to the company line at the second meeting, knowing that it was untruthful.

[Shez]

I think he should be too, he's a cheating bastard, but the FIA already stated that Hamilton won't be receiving anything.

This was after he had the unprecedented favour of being allowed to make his public apology.

The guy from the BBC thinks it will be a suspended sentence of some form - I still think it may result in some kind of race exclusion, which would be more in line when you consider Honda had a 2 race ban a few seasons back for having the hidden fuel tank.

But consistency isn't an FIA strong point.

We'll know soon enough.

[Richard.John]

Swine flu + the Spanish GP = cancelled race? Or at least spectator free...... I mention this as out of all the EU countries, Spain would be the most likely to suffer the most from the Mexican wave poised to sweep across the globe.