And so to Tuesday and our post-race analysis of Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix and once again the headlines tell their own story...“Impatience ....Lewis is chucking it away ...just like last season ...needs a calmer head ...wilts under pressure...”
What utter crap. There’s little doubt Lewis could do with a dose of Schumacher’s icy calm running through his veins but he could also do with an even handed approach from the sport itself.
Is F1 simply massively biased towards Ferrari? Well to our admittedly jaundiced eye it seems immensely so. So let’s have a look at those race incidents in order.
Hamilton made an awful start and panicking tried to undertake Raikkonen into the first corner losing a load of places. Not great, but par for the course on turn one of any Grand Prix and simply not worthy of a penalty. Lewis gets a Drive Through.
So onto lap two and Massa deliberately rams the McLaren and couldn’t have hit it more amidships if he’d been driving a U-boat. Massa effectively takes his championship rival out of the race and deserves a points deduction for such blatant gamesmanship. What does he get? A simple Drive Through.
Finally and most conclusively later in the race Massa comes haring down the start finish straight and rams into the hapless Bourdais who’s blamelessly holding the inside line as he exits the pits. A clear cut case or apparently so, but instead it’s Bourdais who’s punished and Massa who picks up a bonus point on top of the one he’s already purloined.
What further tricks can F1 conjure up to help tilt Ferrari over the line to another undeserved championship? We’ll see 08.00am Sunday we guess.
2 comments:
Me again, I totally agree with you. F1 has been pro Ferrari for years. The last time I remember them being really punished was in 97 when Schumacher rammed Villeneuve. They seem to be above the law because of their value in terms of fans to the sport
Hehe, you're always welcome... It's amazing isn't it? When you tot up all the incidents even over this year, but over all time there's certainly a strong lean towards the prancing horse.
F1 needs Ferrari but they are so strong anyway they don't need a helping over the line.
It gets really dull when they win everything. The disqualification was the most outrageous though, I've never seen anything like it.
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