Tuesday's News Round-Up
by Jack Lamure on May 31st, 2011A collection of Tuesday's top F1 stories, both Badger-based and from other sites. We've got:
- Our driver performance analysis of Monaco's Top Dogs and Chasing Dogs
- This week's racing digest, with the Indy 500, NASCAR and Monaco support action all in the mix
- One from the archives: Ricardo Monza looks at the propposed 12-wheel F1 car of the 1980s
And from elsewhere...
- Fernando Alonso believes Silverstone will be the time to tell whether he has any hope of fighting for this year's title. Story: Autosport
- Jenson Button meanwhile remains confident that Vettel can be caught in 2011. Story: BBC F1
- Joe Saward has a pair of fascinating reader-submitted analysis images relating to Lewis Hamilton's Monaco collision with Pastor Maldonado. Story: Joe Saward's F1 Blog
- James Allen, meanwhile, has been getting geek about race strategies in the principality. Story: James Allen on F1
- Ross Brawn is not happy with the idea of the F1 season finishing on December 4th. Story: Autosport
Photo: Mercedes GP
Comments and Discussion
see now @ joe saward's post the stewards have access to all the footage they want and hamilton told them exactly what happened. He was right the stewards were wrong and these comparisons completely vindicate his words. The only difference is that michael was willing to do the smart thing and get out of it maldonado tryed to block and got hamilton a penalty If anything he was even closer to maldonado than he was to schumacher. The same can be said for the attempted overtakes at loews.
There were 3? during the race 2 of them involving contact and drivers turning in earlyer getting the overtaker a penalty. One where the overtaken driver was smart enough to get out of it did not (which i think was actually lewis). Anthony davidson even called it during the monaco 5live review he said something to the effect of "i have overtaken at loews before it's possible you just need a willing partner" hamilton was that partner when being attacked and found no willing partners when he attacked it clearly was unfair. Martin brundle also called it on the f1 forum he said "maybe thats what hamilton ment" in response to "these drivers are frickin ridiculose" statement. He gave everyone room and everyone showed him sidepods in return but he walked away with the penaltys.
Draw a line in the sand perhaps Joe (instead of on footage shots), as Hamilton has done; and let's look forward to some racing in Canada.
That's exactly the point they havn't drawn a line. Joe didn't gaff those pictures up one of his readers did