... coz there's no way on God's earth that the FIA will hand a victory to Hamilton/McLaren.

mike litt: It's a new regulacion. It's called the Brawn safety car hokey cokey.   You keep the safety car in, the safety car out, In out in out, you mess them all about, You wait for the Brawn pit stops to turn around, Thats what it's all about. Excellent!!  They were dozing a bit when getting the SC out there and then ...

I agree with most of what you say, especially continuing in a damaged car - but that's just a slapped wrist. But I think Vettel brought the penalty on himself with his grovelling apology.  First to the team over the radio (for all to hear) and then to Mario Theissen afterwards.  He clearly thought he was more to blame than most ...

Yep, it's already happening.  The diffusers of Brawn, Williams and Toyota have been approved by the FIA stewards and other teams have protested.  So if any of those teams do well in the race, the result could be changed in some courtroom in the distant future. Why do the FIA have to be such a bunch of woolly bureaucrats, if their ...

I think you are overstating a phenomenon that is not unusual.  Firstly, I don't think many British people actually 'hate' him, they may not 'like' him but there's a gulf between those two positions. Also, I have discussed this point with a few people, some of whom were F1 fans and others who weren't and I think this may be a kind ...

I'm sure that Donnington is a big ploy to get rid of the British GP altogether, I'm sure Bernie doesn't expect them to be ready, any more than you or I do, and he just wants to be able to say it wasn't his fault. I suspect Bernie's primary objection to Silverstone is financial, they have never been ready to pay the sums that other ...

With the introduction of Valencia, a contender for the most boring track of all time and the cancelling of Montreal, I wonder if F1 really cares about the show it offers the fans, or if it's just about making money? You'd think they'd be one and the same, that they'd make more money if the sport was more exciting, but they know F1 fans ...

It seems that Sebastien Bourdias was the victim of a little used FIA Sporting regulation: 16.2 (f)  A team using Ferrari customer engines should always defer to the engine supplying team.  Any failure to move over and allow the driver to pass may be investigated by the stewards of the race and some draconian punishment will be ...

Yep, Hamilton lost it - once again.  But I must disagree about Bourdais, I don't think he understeered into Massa at all, although I'd need to see it from a different angle to be sure.  I think Massa just turned in - assuming Bourdais would back-off, but he didn't. I suppose Toro Rosso could appeal - but hold on, it's not ...

I think you're right there - or more precisely, the FIA are the joke.  They punish Bourdais for Massa's error, then ignore what was probably the most dangerous breach or regulations in the whole race, namely Massa running over the pit-lane exit chevrons when overtaking Webber(?).  If someone had exited the pits at that ...