We all knew that Lewis Hamilton was handicapped from the start of the French Grand Prix, following his ten place grid penalty which he incurred from the previous Grand Prix. Hamilton had to start back in 13th, but he started to make up some great results on the first lap. Then he tried a move on one of the Toro Rossos, he made the overtaking manoeuvre but out-braked himself.
He went a little deep and made up the place while running off the track, so race control had to give him a drive through penalty. McLaren boss, Ron Dennis, is a little angry with the decision, and feels that Lewis made the pass and had it before Hamilton run off the track. I knew from that part of the race that Hamilton would not even make it into the points.
You can understand how boss Dennis feels, it seems that no matter what his team does the powers that be seems to be always against them. The one thing that I do not understand is, how Kimi Raikkonen, did not get any sort of penalty. The Ferrari driver was driving with a broken exhaust, and in my eyes was dangerous, well did you see the thing fly of his car, that could have hit a driver behind. I would have thought that the race stewards would have pulled him in, as to not cause a danger on the track.
I do worry that Lewis Hamilton is losing his sparkly as a race driver; it just seems that when he is under pressure, he finds it hard to handle it.
Not having the benefit of Ferrari technology and a good driver (Alonso), like they did at this time last year, I think we’re seeing McLaren as they really are. A bunch of stumbling fools.
Comment by mark — June 22, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
This is for Mark
You have got to be joking, McLaren are very good indeed it is the likes of the FIA who keep penalising them for little errors. Yesterday Lewis made that pass before going of track and that is a fact, seems to me people like Ferrari got loads of money to shit on McLaren, ok maybe that is a little far fetched but when you think about the Ferrari car had a busted exhaust pipe which could have set the car on fire, and of course in the end did fly of the car at some height, all that needed to do was hit another driver or even worse fly into the crowd, this could have been bad, imagine travelling behind Ferrari at over 180 MPH and that exhaust hit, man that would have been deady… Funny how Ferrai was not penalised for such a dangerous thing….. All fixed if you aks me, there is definately a McLaren hater within FIA… yes hand on heart Lewis made a complete mess up when he smashed into the back of the other cars at thered light, this is all fair he deserved to go back 10 places, but yesterday was a farce he made that pass before going off track….. it is all shite if you ask me…….
Comment by Grand Prix Lover — June 23, 2008 @ 10:02 am
this is for grand prix lover…
small mistakes??? spying on and stealing Ferrari technological secrets, LH unable to control his car in the pitlane and too blind to see a red light and 2 parked cars in front of him, passing another car off the track… LH is undisciplined and reckless and OOC and his boss is an idiot and the British media can’t see that there are other great drivers and great teams out there to cover…
Comment by jack — June 24, 2008 @ 4:30 am