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Its not over until the end. Go West Team!
You have to love the SAFETY CAR! - Ed - USA
N-onamus has touched on something here
that is a very sore point. And I feel he is absolutely correct in that
the penalties imposed on David and Ralph was very severe given the
circumstances. Sure there must be penalties because a pit lane speed
limit applies to everybody and if someone speeds he is getting an
unfair advantage but a 10 second stop/go is very harsh as his
advantage was not that much however much he was speeding. Why does the
stewards not copy from CART and bring in a "Drive through"
penalty in certain situations (such as pit lane speeding and one or
two other transgressions). Still not quite appropriate but a whole lot
better than 10 sec stop/go - Johan M - South Africa
I agree with Johan's Bottom line
DC has not ruined his chances, it was a combination of Trulli and
Bernoldi. Plus I would also like to add that it seems to me that the
race stewards are hell bent on making Formula1 even more boring than
it already is, We had a race on our hands between Ralf and Michael
they slap Ralf with a 10sec stop and go for crossing a white line I
never even knew existed, David was looking like mounting a challenge
to Michael at the French GP what do they do?, slap him with the same
penalty for going 3mph over the pit lane speed limit, sometimes I
think the car manufactures' breakaway series would be a blessing - N-onamus
- Australia
FOR SURE he is just simply trying too
hard, ok I understand his circumstances but if he wants a chance to
win the title he has to get out of the Hakkinen owned and loved team
to Williams or Jordan - Chris - Australia
I agree with Ron Dennis that races are not
won from having a timid approach. That does not mean that a race
driver should never give way and sometimes it is better to give way.
But in this instance Trulli was at fault. He was gaining on DC but
upon entering the corner DC was on the outside and in front of Trulli
(T's front tire connected DC's right rear tire). There was nowhere for
DC to go and Trulli should have realised it. I think Trulli should
have backed off and not the other way round. Trulli did not have a
snowball's hope of making the corner without drifting to the outside
and that would have meant into DC. After all is'nt this exactly what
happened?. DC was on the outside with nowhere to go but still in front
of Trulli.
Bottom line: DC has not ruined his chances, Trulli did it for
him.
As far as Mika is concerned, it is now a mathematical impossibility to
win the title this year and he can be expected to assist David in his
bid for the title which I think he will do (if McLaren gets to be in
such a fortunate position). Mika is not such a bad guy.
(And I am not even a DC, MH or McLaren fan!!) - Johan M - South
Africa
I agree somewhat with GOP from India. To
my recollection Mika Hakkinen has yet to publicly state that if he is
ahead of David Coulthard, he will give way to him. If Coulthard had a
good start I think he would have finished in the top two. It would
have depended on Mika either letting him through for the win, or a
mistake, for him to have won the race - The Meanest - New Zealand
I think its lucky for the McLaren team that David crashed 'cos Mika
was all determined to win and would have refused the team orders,
which would have caused
lots of embarrassment to the team. David probably had little chance to
win, his start was bad and the best result could be a 3-4th finish,
and that'd get him max 4 points. Does not make much difference - GOP
- India
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