Formula1 chat

Well done the BBC.

Lucky number 22 then well spotted and as for the racing up early for the start and especially with the clocks going forward.
Well done all who work at Brawn GP good news at last.

Eddie King.

good race today, good outcome with hami being moved up to third

I told everyone that we had 'other' good British drivers!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Button keep it up!!

Great result for Jensen & team, good to see the Brits on it. Not sure I like the way the cars look, the front spoiler looks way too big and the rear wing too narrow and tall, in hindsight I think last years cars looked much better?
Looking forward to more exciting racing though, lets hope they really start showing us some incredible overtaking manouvers that we really like.

Lewis Hamilton and McLaren have been stripped of their podium finish and all points at the Australian Grand Prix.

The sport's world governing body said they were excluded "for providing evidence deliberately misleading to the stewards at the hearing on 29 March".

A post-race hearing promoted Hamilton from fourth to third after Jarno Trulli was penalised for passing Hamilton while the safety car was out.

Trulli and Toyota have been reinstated to third, and McLaren will not appeal.

Click here for the full story on BBC Sport

Trigger wrote:Lewis Hamilton and McLaren have been stripped of their podium finish and all points at the Australian Grand Prix.

The sport's world governing body said they were excluded "for providing evidence deliberately misleading to the stewards at the hearing on 29 March".

A post-race hearing promoted Hamilton from fourth to third after Jarno Trulli was penalised for passing Hamilton while the safety car was out.

Trulli and Toyota have been reinstated to third, and McLaren will not appeal.

Click here for the full story on BBC Sport

ha take that Hamilton!!

I'm waiting on a comment from Paul lol ...

no comment..........oh sod it. cant resist a rant, think it was a bit harsh, hey ho, lot o races still to go, see how the stewards want to play it.

No 22 strikes again

Now if anyone has ever been to Malaysia/Thailand etc will know.
Late afternoon, it's prone to rain (heavily) and it gets dark very quickly.

Shoot Bernie.......This was as bad an idea as holding the British GP in April.

The current drive to time races to suit European TV programming is stupid.

I don't mind getting up at 5am to watch a 2hr race, jesus we used to drive over night to get to the gates of Silverstone for 6am (OK that was 1970 something). That's what we do. Last week race I watched in a Spanish hotel before breakfast. Didn't understand a word of the commentary, just watched it.


OK whinge over.

Exciting hour, interest tyre choices and.......

Great result.

As with Schumaker and Brawn toughing out the bad Ferrari years bring their succesful era I hope
the Brawn/Button partnership has as much success.

However I'm still a Ferrari fan, but don't hold that against me.

Also not to enamouredwith the BBC team.

Whose the chap with Martin Brundle, the love child of Murrey and James Hunt........

i agree Burnie should be stoned at dawn. wally

I think the BBC's coverage is very good and is bringing in some fantastic new features to watch but it gets messed up when the stewards etc can't give a clear message to anyone and I always get lost when all the commotion begins lol. Even Lewis Hamilton at the end of the race thought he had finished 5th not 7th. I do agree I'm not at all keen on having Jonathan Legard commentating but I'm sure we'll get used to it.

It's okay dpr, I'm a big Ferrari fan too, so if Paul gets out of hand I can remove his comments.
Only kidding Paul

At a press conference held this morning at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, McLaren Group Chairman Ron Dennis announced a major restructuring of the McLaren Group.
McLaren Automotive, currently one of a number of companies within the McLaren Group, will become an independent company later this year. The launch date for the first model in the new range of McLaren sports cars will be in 2011.
As Executive Chairman of McLaren Automotive, Ron Dennis will lead the growth of the new sports car business. As of today, Ron Dennis has handed his responsibility as Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Racing to Martin Whitmarsh, who will be responsible to the board for the activities of McLaren Racing in addition to his role of Team Principal of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. more

Eddie.

Thanks for posting the news Eddie, great to hear what's going on at McLaren.

Cheers, Tim