Easy peasy..............Lightspeed wrote:Good point. Now would manchild&cohorts or his "impartial" race steward friend care to answer this ?tpe wrote: Then, either you are mistaken, or Schumacher has magical powers to know that Alonso, Kimi and Webber were behind him on a 'hot' lap. Look at the qual sector times at f1.com. Schumacher was on a VERY hot lap, at least at 1st split. According to your speculation, he could not know anything about the track status/position etc.
Whether or not MS was on a fast one or not, the fact is when he left the pits he knew he was on pole. No one else was ahead, so if anyone behind was impeded sufficiently, pole was his to keep. The lap times of the cars behind (and, indeed his) were irrelevant - a big RED HERRING, to be ignored (as the stewards rightly did).
From what I have read, MS had a red hot sector 1 - by sector 3 he was 0.8 sec DOWN - perhaps initially he was trying too hard to make the time and made a mistake at the left-hander before Rascasse. But I simply don't believe that he didn't arrive at Rascasse with the cynical plan to ruin any further laps. He saw the pre-Rascasse wobble as a chance to make a "mistake".
Are you trying to tell me that if he did the same thing on the last lap of the race whilst leading he wouldn't have got the car around the corner somehow. Even if he hadn't, he would not have sat there for some seconds before selecting reverse (although I think he "stalled" in a forward gear BTW).
This is the man who we have seen spin a full 360 on a straight and continue with barely any lost momentum. The man who seems to know exactly which gravel traps have escape roads behind them and always finds them if he finds himself off the road.
In fact on Sunday he managed to get around Rascasse something like 78 times without too much trouble - on his slowing down lap he managed it one handed waving to the crowd and he was still going faster than he was on Saturday. So, he wants us to believe he cocked up a corner that he can actually safely negotiate literally one handed