2012 FORMULA 1 SHELL BELGIAN GRAND PRIX: RACE *** SPOILERS ***

Hami having some heated words and hand gestures for lettuce after the incident in the replay...tapping his helmet profusely

My best advanced in-helmet lip reading extrapolation:
Lh: "Lettuce, where's your fockin' brain? Thaink man, think man' think man!" *taps helmet profusely*
Rg: *smiling as always* "I'm flattered bro that you think I have a brain."
Fa: *still dazed in cockpit* "Where's that Maldonado, I want to punch his face."

Alo's head missed lettuce's side pod by an inch....crazy.

 

I only became sure he did it when they showed it from Fred's onboard - Lights were still on when he took off - No question.

Hopefully the BBC will reshow it and Speedy will capture it - Lights on, Rev on the move......

 

I didn't watch Speed's coverage, but Sky Sports showed Murdernado clearly over the line when the lights went out.

 

More than half his car was already over the line at lights out.

 

maldonado said himself he was over

 

Ain't that the truth! The Rev is more notorious, but Lettuce has been involved in a lot of incidents also. Maybe they should start those two side-by-side at the back of the grid every race. Get them out of the way without affecting others

 

Is there a video somewhere?

From the front view it certainly seems that the start is legit; but it's really weird no one is moving and he is already at 1 car distance from the others, something is fishy...

 

Wow what a race!

Button drove a flawless race and was unchallenged. Vettel and Red Bull's strategy was brilliant, didn't see that coming!

Kimi's fight with Schumacher was thoroughly entertaining, I loved his balls out move in ou rouge, brilliant thinking with the DRS detection being just in front of it. He drove a fantastic race with an underperforming car (wrong setup).

Schumacher got royally shafted by his strategist. I saw it coming from a country mile that it wouldn't work. 6th gear going didn't help either.

Stupid move from Grosjean, but Alonso out is good for the championship battle IMO.

Maldonado, false start and of course crashing out...Charlie whiting shaking his head said it all really.

 

Lol...nice

At the end of the day I'm glad we're only talking about a wreck. We didn't need another tragedy in motorsports after losing Wheldon and Super Sic last season...

 

Both of them need a ban, driving like 10 year olds in karts. Lucky no one got hurt.

 

Not that I've found as yet - Hopefully the BBC post race show will reshow it and Speedy will do his usual awesome job of capturing it.....

Hmmm - anyone know how long before the BBC puts it up on the iPlayer?

 

Nope.
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Disagree about Alonso being taken out. I thought it would be tight after the break without boneheaded Lettuce taking a huge bite out of his lead. RBR and McLaren were coming anywy, with Lotus following. I know it helps the drama, but most would rather see the fight on the track, not via tackhead-influenced attrition.

 

Yep, and it's really frustrating when it's always the same boneheads screwing up almost every race.

 

Interesting race for everyone except Button is seems. Monza next week baby!!

 

WTH...BBC covered Spa?