Being a bit pedantic about Louis Hamilton...

Channel 4 news has just stated that Louis Hamilton is closer to becoming the first person to win the F1 championship in his first year.....




...second person surely?


Someone had to win it in the first Formula One season ever. Everyone would have been in their first year in Formula One.



Sloppy journalism.

Or F1 has been running forever lol. But yes can see your point. Think it is worded wrong, should be suumit like, won his first season as a rookie joining the class, or suumit like that.

But then you could say all the others were rookies when it started lol.

[Wideboy]

i have to say today was one of the best F1 race's I've seen in ages

I watched a couple of highlights, did Lewis spin off or was it Alonso like a million times?

The last lap battle between Massa and Kubica was the best bit of racing in F1 i have seen for a while. both knocked one another off the track at points and even though massa was off the track, he found better drive where he was than Kubica

Louis &, I think, Kubica's cars both kissed at one point.

Cracking race...if a bit boring at times - watching the safety car lead the pack for a billion laps.

[Wideboy]

did you see the supa aguri driver take out the car from the other team which his boss owned aswell and they where both heading for a podium, he was devastated

Why is it whenever I miss a race its always the really good ones, last race I missed was last year when Button won! I've been trying not to watch it because its normally so boring so I didnt watch it today (partly as I was going out for the day!)

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Wideboy

did you see the supa aguri driver take out the car from the other team which his boss owned aswell and they where both heading for a podium, he was devastated

It was Vetel in the Toro Rosso, he shunted Webber from behind and took them both out. Both teams owned by the big cheese of red bull, naughty naughty...

Mind you in that sort of weather, how they could see where any of them were going is beyond me.

I like it when it rains, its always chaos and more exciting, maybe Ecclestone should install a sprinkler system at each track and then turn it on at random intervals during a race. That'd be less boring.

Oh and Nino Farinia was the first driver to win the world drivers championship in 1950 so technically as said, he was the first driver to win in his rookie year as they were all technically rookies in that year as that was the first year of the drivers championship.

Next year should see some proper racing and over taking again. All forms of traction control is banned. I believe that also includes the automatic start systems most of the teams run.

Enjoyed the race today. First time I have said that in a few years.

Originally Posted by plowsie

even though massa was off the track, he found better drive where he was than Kubica

[rant against massa mode] Rather than a better driver than Kubica, which he's clearly not. (I talk for the season, rather than the race). It's a traffic thing and I think that even the lottery that is an F1 race in heavy rain helped him regain position after klutzing it earlier on. He's only got those points cos he's in one of the fastest cars in the competetion. [/rant against massa mode]

Fair play to Kovaliainen for his first podium.

A shame button lost his nose early on (!)- he's normally a fine performer in the wet.