Comments on: Mixed feelings about the FIA’s ruling on Hamilton’s appeal

By: Hussey

Hussey — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:15:26 +0000

But with absence of clear FIA rules and guidelines we are also influenced by opinions of other people. The early articles, posts and debates were almost in unison slamming the FIA for anti McLaren and pro Ferrari bias. Few days later some more balanced analysis popped up.

By: Kotenok

Kotenok — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:51:27 +0000

Not good at all... Sometimes I wish to come into ruling the sport someday, but such facts don’t help me to feel comfortable wishing that. Anyway, I hope to grow as a representative point of view of the actions which these organisms decide and judge. How it will be if I approach such status and feel pushed to decide that ways? I can't imagine that still, but hopefully I don't need to live such moments ever... I'm not surprised, as the first we heard was that the appeal will be dismissed specially because there's no flexibility about rules which were applied after a race. But about Liuzzi, I do not remember really what happened, what was it? Kotenoks last blog post..azril deadman

By: F1Wolf

F1Wolf — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:20:45 +0000

“It is a right royal pain in the backside though that we still don’t have a clear “yes, he did enough to satisfy the rules” or “no, he didn’t do enough” type of judgement to clear this up once and for all – although some people wouldn’t have accepted the decision either way anyway! ”

yes, all we have is that “clarification” FIA issued prior to Monza … the thing is it is not only “us” fans, but also the drivers who do not know …

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/70800

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:19:02 +0000

I don’t really see this as the FIA having taken the win off Hamilton – he had 25 seconds added to his time, not the win taken away. Had he been leading Massa by more than 25 seconds then he would still have won…

It is a right royal pain in the backside though that we still don’t have a clear “yes, he did enough to satisfy the rules” or “no, he didn’t do enough” type of judgement to clear this up once and for all – although some people wouldn’t have accepted the decision either way anyway!

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By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:23:53 +0000

The whys and wherefore of the rules and the conflicts with past precedent have been covered in great depth elsewhere. Zooming out and taking the big picture view, from the perspective of a casual fan unfamiliar with the workings of the sport, the situation we have is that the FIA has taken a win off a driver after the race, and refused him grounds to appeal. In anyone's books that's got to make the sport look bad, regardless of one's feelings about Lewis Hamilton. Keith Collantines last blog post..F1’s best street circuits part 1/3 (Video)