Formula One 2009 season (F1 motor racing)

All this tactical fuel loads and these 'supersoft' tyres along with the KERs makes for a difficult time keeping up with it all. It did make for a more exciting spectacle though. Tactics will come into it until they all work out the optimal strategy.

I'll put my neck out here and say I think there will be at least 6 different winners this year.

Yeah, I think a laptop with the timing screen is pretty essential to knowing what's happening, although that was pretty much the case before, too. Would be good if they could find some way to denote tyre usage on it, and possibly which cars have KERS.

The BBC cockpit view didn't seem to have the graphics on it when it was on the red button, only if was shown on the main signal. That meant you were deprived of the KERS display for that car, the single most important piece of information on that graphic.

I'm sure that Hamilton will be happy with a 3rd place cos it can only be a brief matter of time before the other teams match Brawn's advance.

I've just read that he wasn't penalised for the crash, but for continuing to drive round with a damaged car:

"The German was penalised not for his late collision with Robert Kubica, but for failing to pull his damaged Red Bull to the side of the track when requested."

That applies to the cash fine. He was separately penalised 10 grid places for causing the accident.

Vettel and Red Bull penalised (correction)

Just a cheeky though.

In the event of the Brawn team being shown to have broken the rules with their defuser then Hamilton will have won!

It won't happen though will it?

It would if he was driving for Ferrari.

looks like they've conspired against McLaren again to strip Hamilton of the podium finish
Hamilton loses Aussie GP points (BBC News)

fishy?

Coming a day after Toyota say they won't question the decision because recent precedents say the decision is final. Yes.

I really feel sorry for McLaren. Moseley and FIA seem to do everything possible to make life hard for them especially when it favours Ferrari.

I don't think it's fishy at all, this is what Hamiltron said directly after the race:

And if the radio comms back this up, as claimed, then he & McLaren deliberately misled the stewards and he deserves his penalty

As long as the rules are consistently applied then no problem. But they are not.

Speaking of rules, what happened to the decision to publish the reasons for stewards decisions?

FIA: F1 set for stewarding update

I still don't get how he has misled the stewards. He has stated that he let Trulli re-overtake him during the safety car phase. What's misleading about that?. Basically it seems that he is being ounished for letting soneone pass him, when he needn't have done so.

I think it was because in the initial FIA hearing Hamiltron/McLaren claimed that the move was an overtaking move on Trulli's part, under yellows, and not ceded voluntarily, as it seems to have turned out to be with the stewards review of the comms data.