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I don't think his nationality is a problem, it's his attitude about "anyone but the English," that gets up people's noses tbh. Contrast that with quadruple Olympic champion Chris Hoy, a Scot, who when asked if he'd like to represent Scotland rather than GB in the Olympics said, "No, I'm proud to be a Scot but I'm proud to be a Brit too!"

Well that explains it then.

Blimey, there's bitter.

He has fingers like sausages. They look very strange holding a microphone.

These are pretty short race highlights, so I'm imagining there'll be some firm news on the penalty to come.

Lol, no, it's just an opinion that's been reaffirmed today.

Oh, by the way, James Allen is a pr!ck. He spent the first 20 laps telling us Piquet was on intermediate tyres when he was clearly on the harder of the dry tyres.

Christ, it's obvious the FIA are weighted in Ferrari's favour. There's been much made of Ferrari's power advantage over the Renault engine this year. They have made some big developments in the name of reliability and gained about 30bhp. I'm reliably informed that Renault recently submitted a request to the other teams and the FIA to make identical developments and despite the other teams voting 7 to 2 for them to be allowed to make the change the FIA refused. I don't think it's strange that the two teams to vote against were STR and Force India. I wonder where they get their powerplants...

That sounds like something James Allen would say. 5 laps is plenty of time for Renault to have shown the footage of the 1st overtake to the stewards were it as simple as that.

Ok, I've done a bit of research and there is a precedent for this kind of action. In 2005, at Suzuka, Lap 7, Alonso cut a chicane and overtook Christian Klien as he did so. He immediately let Klien back past before nailing him at the next corner, just as Hamilton did with Raikkonen today. A few laps later, lap 12 I believe, Renault had word from the stewards that there hadn't been a full corner between relinquishing and retaking the position so Alonso was told by radio to slow and let Klien back in front. A few corners later he overtook him again and all was well. I guess there was insufficient time for Hamilton to undo his overtake at La Source as Raikkonen spun out (if there'd even been a decision made before the end of the race) but technically speaking Hamilton didn't allow a full corner to pass before moving to overtake Raikkonen once more. That's just the rules as I can make them out but in this instance I don't see how the penalty is fair. Perhaps if Kimi had finished 2nd then I could have accepted a reversal of positions but considering he didn't finish at all I don't see how the result was affected. Just my 2p.

I'm more concerned with the unwashed smell wafting off your rotten bell-end.

A fair assessment. Nasty stuff.

Bill Murray is worth watching in anything tbh.

Absolutely gobsmacked. No one could accuse me of being Hamilton's biggest fan but that decision is completely unfathomable. I'd like to know where the mystery 25 seconds came from too (If they'd made it 30 we'd have got a podium!). I expect I'll get more details tomorrow but for now I'm just amazed. Lewis drove brilliantly in those last couple of laps and thoroughly deserved the victory. Win or lose the championship I hope it's not decided by the 4 points reversed today. PS. Not many people mentioned Fernando overtaking Kubica and Bourdais on the line. Poor Vettel was already celebrating 4th when Nando nipped past. Haven't seen a finish like that for ages.

Is there really that much of a difference between Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi to justify 100 places between them on that chart?

Moderating for an evening used to be a full-time job. Now hours pass without any posts in the off-topic fora. I've got a suprising amount of stuff done in the last month.

Lol, what a loser. Bye bye credibility.

I' m soo soo tired saintkiptanui, just stop it we're all so tired

I've only got two words for him... Nice shirt

You'd have thought there'd be more ice-cream.

Anthony Hamilton's new found celebrity status is just another thing to hold against Lewis in many peoples' opinions. Not a bad qualifying session this race, particularly after the disappointment of Renault's performance at Valencia. There's an opportunity to reduce the gap to Toyota this week. Whether we make the most of it is another thing altogether.

I can understand complete antipathy for the England squad, hell I enjoy that myself, but I don't understand wishing for failure. Very strange.

Surely all that beer is off by now so should be worthless. I can't understand how a value can be attached to beer that can't be drunk. That's all it's brewed for, after all. We humans are a funny bunch.

Casualties Of War by a small margin. Others, such as Platoon, fall in closely behind.

If there weren't such progressive thinkers and enquiring minds in the world we'd still be living in caves and worshipping the lightning God or whatever. Look at it this way; if the world does disappear, we had a good innings.