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Last August, I wrote a piece about Formula 1 and what my take was on the current status of the series and I ended the piece by saying “Bottom Line, good bye Formula 1, you don’t want to support the United States and or at least Canada, than I don’t want to support your series.” and it was called “Is Formula 1 in trouble in the eyes of its US and Canadian fans?”
With that said, this race fan couldn’t resist watching one more race namely being the Formula 1 realty show season finale in Brazil in hopes of seeing the crowning of a World Champion that was to be decided on track at the finish line, but as we all know by now, that wasn’t to be as after the race, the officials discovered that three teams had violated the fuel tempeture rule by 13-14 degrees with a allowance of only ten degrees and as per the rule book, they should have been disqualified… but the officials decided not to disqualify the three teams in effect effecting the World Championship outcome giving the title to Kimi Räikkönen and not to the McLaren rookie Lewis Hamilton.
Well now McLaren has sent a letter of appeal to the FIA and the date is set for Nov. 15, so why the talk? Does anyone think McLaren is going to win the appeal? Is Kimi Räikkönen still going to be 2007 World Champion?
In my eyes and from what I understand the rule book reads, first, the officials did make the wrong call, they should have disqualified the three teams on the spot with the evidence that they had and it’s a huge discussion as why they didn’t. Second, McLaren does have a leg to stand on and I would say if they have all the evidence, they will win the appeal.
However he’s the bottom line, Kimi Räikkönen will still be the 2007 Formula 1 World Champion, because the FIA isn’t going to change the results and that’s it, so in my eye’s, McLaren lost both championships and in the record books under the 2007, World Champion will read Kimi Räikkönen* - FIA makes wrong call at season finale and awards both championships to there golden boy Ferrari.
For the record, I have to say, Kimi Räikkönen does deserve to be World Champion, just not the 2007 World Champion (that honor bellows to Lewis Hamilton) and it will go do in history as the FIA crowned the wrong person as World Champion. And that’s were I will end it.
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Recently, a reader (in my comments) asked me why I think Lewis Hamilton deserves to be the 2007 Formula 1 World Champion? JFTR, the only reason why I think Hamilton should be World Champion is because he won the points battle if the stewards had make the call to disqualify those three teams as per the rule book. I also understand that in Brazil, some teams were having problems all weekend getting consistent temperatures from the fuel pump rigs, however normally the stewards don't make many expections and to add to the case, those were the only three teams that were over the 10 degrees allowence on all of there pit stops. That's it.
With that said, if we are talking who deserves to World Champion without the points, well that easy, I would give the World Championship to Kimi Räikkönen, he has earned it, he has paid his due's in Formula 1, but that's not how Formula 1 is. Thank You for you comment and I hope I explained my position.
- Racedriven
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Actually the rules state that the stewards and the stewards alone have the final call about cars being excluded due to fuel temperature. Due to problems they'd been having all weekend getting consistent temperatures from the pump rigs, they decided that there was an irregularity, but not enough evidence or information of its severity to warrant excluding cars. The way the FIA regs stand, this was fully in their purview and will likely not be overturned. At best, Mclaren will likely force a rewrite of this fuel rules.
I'm also unsure as to why you think Hamilton deserves the championship. His greed at going after the win in China (where he beached it going into the pits) when all he needed to do was finish the race and complete implosion under pressure in Brazil lost him that championship, not possible fuel problems in mid marker cars.
Recently, a reader (in my comments) asked me why I think Lewis Hamilton deserves to be the 2007 Formula 1 World Champion? JFTR, the only reason why I think Hamilton should be World Champion is because he won the points battle if the stewards had make the call to disqualify those three teams as per the rule book. I also understand that in Brazil, some teams were having problems all weekend getting consistent temperatures from the fuel pump rigs, however normally the stewards don't make many expections and to add to the case, those were the only three teams that were over the 10 degrees allowence on all of there pit stops. That's it.
With that said, if we are talking who deserves to World Champion without the points, well that easy, I would give the World Championship to Kimi Räikkönen, he has earned it, he has paid his due's in Formula 1, but that's not how Formula 1 is. Thank You for you comment and I hope I explained my position.
(This comment was also added to the article as well. Thank You for the comment.
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