Originally Posted by tasker:
“Maybe the officials are being smart and diffusing an argument before it takes over the race and to stop all the moaning Hamilton fan's who seem to think the whole world is out to get the moaning little sod.
Best of all is (and i can never understand this about F1 qualifying) it is over a few feet of tarmac before 60 odd laps.
The race is not won on Saturday afternoon it is won on Sunday, until they change the F1 rules and like touring cars they give a point for qualifying, why cry over spilt milk like Kevin Hamilton is.
He is fast becoming a contender for the Woods lip in sport.”
You've missed the point. I (and many others) couldn't care two hoots about who is involved in this 'row', only in the suspicious circumstances in which it took place. Cheating makes me angry, in any sport - and What Rosberg appears to have done is take advantage of 5 important things:
1) He was then in provisional pole position, by a whisker
2) The pole sitter won at monaco 9 times out of the last 10 F1 races there.
3) He knew that in sector 1 of his final run, he'd made a mistake and that Hamilton was (or would be) faster (the sector 1 timings confirm this).
4) On a dry track, the final run is usually faster then the first run for the top drivers (more rubber laid down).
5) Hamilton was behind him.
So making a
second and even bigger "mistake" in a place where his car was in no danger of damage but would cause yellow flags if he placed it "correctly" would probably get him not only pole position but give him a 90% chance of winning the race. He's also been going on and on in every interview in recent days about how important it was for him to break Hamilton's winning streak. Well he seems to have found a way to make that likely... clever boy but hmmm.... and as the BBC website says:
"The incident brought back memories of the 2006 Monaco race, when Michael Schumacher deliberately parked his car at Rascasse to prevent Alonso from beating him to pole."