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Definitely race of the year so far.  Who says 13 is an unlucky number?  Oh yeah, MS, FA and KR I suppose!

Shame not to see the leaders actually finishing, but they did extremely well starting from way down the grid.

Great to see de la Rosa get a podium aswell :-)

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To be fair to Jensen, he hasn't had the tools to get the job done.  Or he has, but it's conked out on the third lap or something!

He has had quite a bit of bad luck.  Just a pity it's too late in the season to really capitalize on this though.

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Great race.

Just really annoying that there's a 3 week break already!

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· Women drivers - no idea.  We've only just got the first black driver, so maybe in the years to come...

· Pit crew bustups - flick to Jerry Springer or Trisha :-P

· Explosions - there are good crashes now and then

· Swearing/driver gesticulation - they do happen, not too recently though - no-one to get pissed of at now that Scumi's gone ;-)

· Damon Hill - Why?  He's not a good racer anymore.  After watching his "commentating" on ITV digital's subscriptioin/ppv thing I'd say he's never going to do it voluntarily again.  He'd maybe good for the odd interviews, but as he's now the BDRC top dog he'll be too busy making sure we still have Silverstone

· Cooler cars with greater variety in design and tech - Blame the safety rules and regulations for this one.  There was a bit of variety between cars in the 70s/80s but some were apparently a bit dangerous.

· New track location/layout each season - yeah right.  The cost of keeping circuits is big enough for some countries without having nothing to subside the costs when they don't get the race.

· Harry Hill doing the commentary - :lol:  I get too bored with him though.  Greg Proops would be good (SW Episode 1 pod race).

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... and finished.

Good race.  Good to see Ferrari on the recieving end of a speed storm this time.  Looks like Ferrari will be struggling for another wee while yet.

Saying that, Massa did well.

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I didn't pay attention to the qualifying yesterday when it actually happened.

I did see the end of the first section when ITV finally decided to show it.  Ended doing something else after that section and completely forgot about it.

Wish I'd seen it now.

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It's only red flagged when there's considerable danger to everyone else in the race.  The fact that he was moving his hands in the car and he was speaking to the medics probably helped in that descision aswell.  Charlie Whiting was probably speaking to the safety car guys that turned up and knew what was going on.

Kubica only has a broken leg btw.  He was lucky that he didn't get knocked out after that .  Also lucky to only have clipped the other car on the way to the barrier.

Mind you, a bigger clip of that car and he wouldn't have had the speed he did when he hit the first barrier.  

I can't remember the last time I'd seen a race this eventful.  I can't remember seeing a race where absolutely no-one was lapped!!

Good for Hamilton though.  Well raced and well timed.

Gotta say that I loved seeing Sato pass Alonso.  I like him as a driver and seeing that was just brilliant :-D

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The BBC are now saying that he's had a concussion and a sprained ankle.  Guess he'll miss out on Indianapolis after all.

@doobrey
I can't remember seeing that Heidfeld crash.  But what the hell was the safety car thinking about stoppin there?  That was just asking for trouble.

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blobrana wrote:
Wow,
Fantastic action  from the Nurburgring

Fantastic indeed.  I couldn't help but laugh when I saw the 6 car aquaplaning at the same corner.  And then Winkelhock in a Spyker leading the race and restart.

Absolutely hilarious for all the wrong reasons.  I thought it was great when Takumo overtook Alonso a few races back, but this is something else!

Shame about Lewis not getting that last point but as he said it's a new experience for him not having to go on the podium :lol:

(I wouldn't have found the aquaplaning funny if they were going at full speed and had a big crash btw)

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That's just {bleep}e.

I thought we got it bad yesterday when the qualifying was bumped to 11pm (ish) because of the macho hugging period in the afternoon.

Definitely worth an email complaint to your regional ITV operator.

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Just seen it on News 24.

Fined $100million aswell.

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Will they still get constructor's points in the rest of the races?  I know that they're not allowed constructor representatives on the podium, which makes me think that they'll still get the points.

Saying that, if they do get the points, but aren't on the podium do they still get the constructor's trophy?

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Welcome back Fuji :-D

I thought it was going to be dreadful with the SC being out for about 20 laps (I taped it so I could watch it as soon as I got up so I skipped a good bit of this), but the race did have it's moments.

Like when Alonso crashed.

Raikkonen and Massa passing almost everyone to get back into scoring positions after changing tyres and going to the back.

DC just missing out on the podium.

Kubica and Hamilton coming together.

But the best moment had to be Kubica and Massa fighting for 6th during the last corners.  That was just fantastic.