Jaime Alguersuari has been given a 20 second penalty following the stewards review of lap 42 from the Belgian Grand Prix. The Spaniard is accused of cutting the final chicane and gaining a position from Vitantonio Liuzzi. This promotes Liuzzi into 10th, and into the points, while demoting Alguersuari back to 13th.
Alonso was hit in the wheel and not in the fragile bodywork. Although it's still surprising that he didn't suffer any suspension damage, as we've seen other incidents like that were even though the car was fine to continue it had to retire later on.zgred wrote:McLaren not as bulletproof as Ferrari:
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Totally agree, I think there were two pieces of luck involved. The first was that he was already turning in that direction near the limit of grip on a very slippery circuit so that the car more easily spun than normal, thus reducing the forces involved. The second was that Rubens obviously hit Alonso in just the right place and in the right direction for the car to stand up to that impact. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that if the impact had been a few cm either side of where it is it would have ended Alonso's race.mx_tifosi wrote:Alonso was hit in the wheel and not in the fragile bodywork. Although it's still surprising that he didn't suffer any suspension damage, as we've seen other incidents like that were even though the car was fine to continue it had to retire later on.zgred wrote:McLaren not as bulletproof as Ferrari:
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Agreed for LH, but not for Alonso. He was taken out by Rubens in lap one, put wrong tires and had to pit once more. Even after that he made a great recovery to 8th. Then he pushed a bit too hard and made a mistake. But his push was justified. If he settled for 8th he would get just 2 miserable points.ringo wrote:Good win for THE BOSS
Alonso FAIL, that's all i have to say about him. Massa was by far the better driver for the weekend.
F1 is not about IF. But I must say if Kimi was racing in place of Massa. He would have lapped Alonso at Spa. And also on other circuits he would have thrashed that cry baby Alonsovall wrote:Agreed for LH, but not for Alonso. He was taken out by Rubens in lap one, put wrong tires and had to pit once more. Even after that he made a great recovery to 8th. Then he pushed a bit too hard and made a mistake. But his push was justified. If he settled for 8th he would get just 2 miserable points.ringo wrote:Good win for THE BOSS
Alonso FAIL, that's all i have to say about him. Massa was by far the better driver for the weekend.
BS!!! I am sorry to say that, but you seem completely outside reality. At no point anyone was close to lapping Alonso. If what you say was anywhere close to reality Kimmi would have won with >1 min margin ahead of LHmangesh wrote: F1 is not about IF. But I must say if Kimi was racing in place of Massa. He would have lapped Alonso at Spa. And also on other circuits he would have thrashed that cry baby Alonso
At the time when Alonso crashed he was ~35 sec behind LH....
TheRMVR wrote:Allthough Alonso made a stupid mistake he once again showed how much better he is then Massa. After being hit by Barrichello, putting on the wrong tyres and being drop dead last, he recovered and overtook a number of guys, even was stuck for a moment behind I believe a Sauber and despite all of that, he still managed to be only a couple of seconds behind Massa. At one point the camera even cought the two on the same straight. Now that is unbelievable.
