Hold on Dan,I'm not being antagonistic. I like Hamilton's style but he was in the wrong today,as he was in Monaco.He has no 'divine rite' to pass.
Sorry, I do too! I'd forgotten about that, I thought they normally stuck to the right all the way down there, but they clearly don't. I'm starting to see more blame in this for Hamilton now. Button may not have seen him, and Hamilton should have backed out, in my opinion.
If it had been in the dry it would undoubtedly be Penalty for Hamilton for Webber incident Penalty for Schumacher (still should be IMO, dirty bit of podding) Penalty for Button however in the wet I think the webber/Button accidents hamilton had were racing incidents. They were also fairly rash racing incidents, but that sort of poor decicion making is something I've come to expect from him.
Divine right eh? I'm not sure by any stretch of the imagination how I may have implied that. I'd say racing incidents... and we should molly coddle less when he comes to these incidents.
Ah, it appear Chandhok may have been wrong earlier, just found this from Sam Michael, the Williams (ex?) technical director: "You aren't allowed to change any parts of the car that aren't the same specification. You can change the tyres and repair parts. We know that because we were going to change a part and [FIA race director] Charlie [Whiting] said we couldn't!"
Yes he must feel really lucky after pulling so far ahead to be either dragged back to the rest and lose his advantage, or have the race abandoned and lose 12.5 points. Very lucky indeed.
Away from the bickering it is good to see new members posting, obviously the call to the guests is working somewhat. This place can only benefit from a greater diversity of views
In what way? He qualified on pole, easily fastest in the race despite it raining, and will only get half points for the 'win'. I think the 2013 regs should be tweaked to make the cars more suitable for the wet. Rather than pulling all the aero parts off, they should just raise the ground clearance a bit. It would slow the cars down (which is what they always seem to strive for), and we wouldn't get farcical scenes like this.
The BBC interview with Hamilton after his retirement is here. Seems a lot more mature than in Monaco, so maybe the backlash for his comments has had some impact.
HRT team radio reckons at least half an hour before any sort of restart. Fun times. Have Brundle and DC run out of things to discuss yet, I know David Croft and Karun Chandhok handed back to London.
