Congratulations to Kimi for winning the Brazilian Grand prix and, against the odds, the drivers championship. Given that he won the most races this year (6) he deserves the championship. Congratulations also go to Lewis Hamilton for coming in second in his rookie year. Now, for 2008, can the FIA get out of micro-managing the [...]

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As reported at Autosport, PitPass, and GrandPrix.com, the FIA, at the request of the head of the Spanish motor sport federation Carlos Gracia, has requested there be an FIA steward in the McLaren pits in Brazil to ensure equality. I am blown away by this and agree with the PitPass comments. In addition, the GrandPrix [...]

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As reported in Autosport, the Italian magistrates that have interviewed Alonso and are planning on interviewing De la Rosa have said that they don’t plan on interviewing Hamilton. As I have mentioned before, I don’t understand why De la Rosa (and Coughlin) were only passing information to Alonso and not to Hamilton. There is an [...]

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As reported in Autosport, the Prodrive entry for the 2008 F1 season is now in question. There are two problems with the entry:

The Concorde agreement is meant to expire at the end of this season. The Concorde agreement does not allow for customer cars. There is meant to be a new agreement for 2008 and [...]

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As reported in Autosport, Alonso is now expecting equality in Brazil. After all of his whining in China about inequality, and his slamming of the McLaren team, he is now expecting equality. Obviously he didn’t think he had a chance of winning the drivers championship before the China Grand Prix and so he believed he [...]

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The BBC is reporting that Alonso does not want to be partnered with Hamilton next year. This follows similar comments from Hamilton.

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As reported in Autosport (and shown on Speedtv) Hamilton wins his 4th GP of the year in a downpour. He also increased his lead over Alonso to 12 points in the Drivers championship.

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Interesting approach by the two drivers at McLaren this week. As reported by Autosport, Hamilton says that Alonso has not been loyal to the McLaren team this year. In addition, on a Radio 5 interview (BBC), Hamilton never once mentioned Alonso by name, only by ‘He’. On the other hand, Alonso continues to talk about [...]

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In a story reported by Autosport, Trulli says “McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso should have been thrown out of this year’s Formula One title race”. Although I am enjoying this years championship, I have to say that I agree with Jarno Trulli. If McLaren are guilty (as they have been found to be) [...]

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Having read the full transcript of the last FIA hearing on the Spygate saga (why is everything a -gate these days?) there are a number of things that jumped out at me.

The Ferrari argument appears to be built completely on supposition and not on any specific proof.
McLaren does not appear to have been upfront on [...]

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