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Schumacher survived...
It was in Germany...
Kimi was out....

(Or am I just being cynical?)

John

Actually you can.

The rules do not explicity say you can't take the penalty AFTER the
race finished (which is clearly NOT a penalty), but for sure that's
what the intent of the law was.

John

The only saving grace was that Michael didn't score too many points,
which saved it from being too *** them.

Well, MS didn't stop, and he stuck DC off the track at T2 right
afterwards..

The main problem in F1 is the carbon fibre shards, which are really
difficult to clear, and make punctures a lottery

I remember Senna doing that in Canada a few years back. They couldn't
get his car off the track, so had to red flag the session, which meant
he could get towed back to the pits. There was quite a body of
evidence among the marshalls suggesting he had his foot on the brake
the whole time....

:-)

John

I saw the incident as Raikonens fault. He was on the outside approaching a
fairly severe right hander in a lot of traffic. He could have given way but
he decided to cut across Barrichelo. First corners are a lottery and not
everyone is going to get the perfect start, so Raikonen should have allowed
for this.
Is this what dive bombing is ;)  ?

--

Steve

"They say a glass of wine makes you live longer but there's a drawback with that, the French drink it""

Guvnor.

the penalty would be given in an added time difference after the race
finnishes in a case where the penalty would not be taken
but this didn't happen, that's what i meant.
you can't blame him for the fact that that time was not added to his
racetime
that is a fia / marchal f*ckup (big one if you ask me)

3dO

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

So while young Kimi may have made an opportunistic move on the outside
of the (as usual) slow off the line Ferrari, he didn't actually hit
anyone and held his line, the one starting the chain reaction was Ralf
and the one who had the best chance of preventing it from going pear
shaped was Barichello as he was in the rear as well as in the middle and
had a decent view of what was about to happen

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

  That might be a-bit tough to enforce evenly.  Say if a car was hit and
crashed and bounced off armco to stay on the track..through no fault of his
own the driver of the hit car does not get to restart?  

dave henrie