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New head safety planned for 2014 (BBC)
“After the race in Belgium, Lowe said he thought changes could be made in time for 2014. ‘We started the project a year ago,’ he said. ‘We’ll see. Personally, I think something is inevitable because it is the one big exposure we’ve got.’”
Romain Grosjean sorry for causing huge crash in Belgian Grand Prix (The Guardian)
“I accept my mistake. I misjudged the gap with Lewis. I thought I was in front of him. It was a small mistake, but a big incident. I’m very sorry, and I’m just glad nobody is hurt. That’s the main thing.”
Hamilton tweet ‘an error of judgement’ (Autosport)
“One rival team boss told Autosport that it had been ‘gold dust’ for his engineers in understanding the performance of the MP4-27.”
Schumacher still a true fighter, says Vettel (Reuters)
“It doesn’t matter where you get Michael on the circuit, whether you’re fighting for first place or 15th, he will fight like hell which is great to see. He hasn’t lost it. It obviously makes it hard for you but it’s always a great challenge. It’s very close with him but always fair.”
Mark Hughes: “Pastor’s accidents really do seem to be triggered by ‘red mist’ – in high stress situations, he seems unable to control his emotions. His incident with Grosjean in Australia can be written off as just two hard racers being uncompromising with each other. But banging wheels with Sergio Perez in Monaco practice this year or with Hamilton at Spa last year, barging back onto the track and into an accident with Hamilton at Valencia this year: these are all red mist incidents. It means that when he makes a genuinely innocent misjudgement, like his blocking of Nico Hulkenberg in qualifying on Saturday, he is penalised.”
Spa, Stewards, Standards and Safety… (The Buxton Blog)
“The only answer, as far as I see it, is to start parking drivers. Just as they have with Grosjean. You want to make a racing driver think about his actions? You want to hit him where it hurts? Don’t make his wallet lighter. Don’t make him start a few places back down the grid. Just show him how it feels to sit at home and watch a race in which he should be taking part.”
Tweets
Today I woke up with no pain and 200% ready for Monza! And… New record for
#Ferrari in the “batak” machine.. ;)) twitter.com/alo_oficial/st…— Fernando Alonso (@alo_oficial) September 3, 2012
Comment of the day
Some great additions to the Belgian Grand Prix Stats and Facts from @Andae23:
No German driver started the race from the top nine. This is the first time this has happened since the 2003 Japanese GP: in that race, Heidfeld started from only 11th. Frentzen, Michael and Ralf Schumacher started from 12th, 14th and 19th respectively.
This was Raikkonen’s sixth podium of the year without a win. That means that if he doesn’t pick up a win this year, he will have the most podiums in one season without a win since himself in the 2006 season. In 2006, he scored six podium, but didn’t win a single race that year. The record for most podiums without a win in one season is Button in the 2004 season and Barrichello in the 2001 season (ten podiums).
Pastor Maldonado hasn’t scored any points in the seven Grands Prix following his victory in Spain. This is the longest drought for a race winner since Giancarlo Fisichella in 2003. Following his race win in Brazil, he didn’t score a point in the next eleven Grands Prix.
@Andae23
From the archive
The huge crash at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix evoked memories of some of the other huge first lap shunts seen in F1 before. Here’s ten of the biggest:
From the forum
- Who will stand in for Grosjean at Monza?
- Were you at Spa-Francorchamps? Post your Belgian Grand Prix pictures and video here
- The GP2 top two are tied on points with four races to go
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On this day in F1
Jack Brabham scored his third and final world championship victory on this day in 1966.
He became the first and, so far, only driver to win the championship in his own car, driving a Brabham-Repco BT19. He retired just seven laps into the race but when championship rival John Surtees dropped out 24 laps later, Brabham’s title was assured.
Here’s some footage from the weekend, though little of the race, which saw Ludovico Scarfiotti score a dream win at home for Ferrari:
Image © Ferrari spa/Ercole Colombo
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