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It wasnt the most exciting race this weekend. The race livened up with the safety car which caused a couple of the main talking points. One was the crash because Sutil and Kubica and the other was Rosberg and the loose bouncing wheel. Both of them could have been really dangerous. Sutil’s car could have gone up into Kubica and the bouncing wheel had have hit someone or gone into it garage. Very dangerous!

Schumacher v Barrichello

However, the main talking point was the Schumacher v Barrichello incident. I am sure you have all seen it but basically Rubens was faster than Schumi and was catching for a few laps. Schumacher went wide on the last corner and Rubens got into slipstream and went to the right to pass. As he was next to Schumacher, he was “pushed” towards the wall and it was all very close and tight. Rubens was lucky the pit wall ended so he could go wider and had room to “escape”. If he hit the wall it would have been a big crash, if a car was exiting the pit lane it would have been a major incident!! Rubens was rightly angry and called for him to be black flagged.

After the race Schumacher said he gave him enough room and wanted him to go to the left. You can see in replays he was looking in mirror to the right. He knew what he was doing! Rubens was on the BBC F1 Forum afterwards talking about it. He talked about it and asked ppl on Twitter to let him know if he was right or was Schumacher right – who always calls him a bit of a “cry baby”. Schumacher has been given a 10 place grid penalty.

Lenient punishment

Personally I think he should be banned for a race at the very least. The fines/bans/punishment issued by the FIA seems very inconsistent! Three years ago McLaren were fined $100m for using Ferrari date. Then you look at just a week ago when Ferrari were fined just $100,000 for manipulating a race result. Back in 1997, Schumacher was thrown out of championship for crashing into someone. Hes now been given a 10 place grid penalty for what Rubens (most experience F1 driver in history) has described as “the most dangerous manoeuvre against me I have ever known”.

(Schumacher has since said sorry but his team boss has said he gave Rubens enough room). Maybe its a coincidence but the 2 drivers hes tried to “put into the wall” this season have been ex-teammates. Is that a factor??

Back to the actual race result and I am happy Webber won. (Once again Vettel has not converted a pole position into a race win). If Button doesnt win, I would rather a driver I like to win and thats Webber or Rubens. It was the worst race weekend for McLaren for awhile with a DNF for Lewis and Button finishing in 8th. The Red Bull car is just so much faster!! This track was almost the perfect track for them and it showed with them being about a second faster than anyone else!

Its not a mid-season break for F1 and back in a month in Spa. Can’t wait!