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almost as good as this...
http://axisofoversteer.blogspot.com/2009/04/michael-schumacher-back-in-formula1.html
| Quote: | Michael Schumacher back in Formula1 with Brawn GP!
"To be honest, Lance Armstrong is an inspiration" Michael Schumacher revealed to the assembled press in Kuala Lumpur this morning where it was announced that the seven time world champion would join the Brawn GP team effective immediately.
As you may know, Schumacher's contract with Ferrari is up this summer but the German, together with his manager Willi Webber and with full backing of Richard Branson and an ecstatic Bernie Ecclestone , decided this was the right time to reconstitute the all conquering dream team with Ross Brawn.
Perhaps more of a shock to all is that Schumacher will step in in place of Jenson Button, winner of the first race of 2009 in Australia.
"It was important for us to have the old team in place" said the German champion "it just would not be the same without Rubens behind me, we need to write a final chapter of this great novel". The Brazilian was said to have been moved to tears by the gesture.
There has been no comment yet from either Button or Ferrari's Luca di Montezemolo, both are sure to consider legal action. |
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Thats false, Brawn wouldn't hire a cheater. 
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| Quote: | | Thats false, Brawn wouldn't hire a cheater. |
Brings up an interesting issue. It is now clear that Hamilton was told to go along with the story that was told to the stewards. He was in a tough situation because if he tells the truth, he is in the dog house with his team leaders. If he lies as he was asked to, then he gets branded a liar. I kinda think that had he had time to ponder the situation, he would have told the truth and taken his chances with his team leaders. Keep in mind that he is a very young guy, as are most F1 racers.
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Who do you listen to?
The one that pays you to play or the one that makes you pay so you can play?
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Jim Garry
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Well that's why it was a tough decision for Hamilton. His boss was telling him to lie. If he was older and more seasoned, he may have had the presence of mind to suggest to his boss that maybe they should just tell the truth.
Now it's going to be with him for a long time.
I mean, really, it was idiotic ... all the teams KNOW that their car to pit transmissions are monitored. What a screw up!
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It's not over yet. I saw this on crash.net
| Quote: | Lewis Hamilton could be facing suspension or even exclusion from the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship after it was revealed that he and his McLaren-Mercedes team had 'deliberately misled' the FIA over his pass on Toyota's Jarno Trulli in the closing stages of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne four days ago.
Following a second stewards' meeting in Sepang ahead of this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix, the defending F1 World Champion was disqualified from third place in the season curtain-raiser Down Under [see separate story – click here], and since then a spokesman for the FIA has stated: “Given the seriousness of this matter, we cannot rule out further action at this stage.”
It is suggested that the only two courses of such 'further action' available to the governing body's World Motor Sport Council (WMSC), should the issue make it that far, would be suspension from a future race or races or – even worse – disqualification from the world championship altogether.
Hamilton and McLaren's crime at Albert Park was one of acting 'in a manner prejudicial to the conduct of the event by providing evidence deliberately misleading to the stewards' following an investigation into the pass on Trulli, with a subsequent enquiry in Sepang finding the Woking-based outfit and its star driver guilty of breaching article 151c of the International Sporting Code, which covers 'any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motorsport generally' – and carries with it penalties ranging from a reprimand to exclusion from the entire world championship.
The FIA has published a transcript of the pits-to-car radio conversation between Hamilton and McLaren in Australia [see separate story – click here], upon the basis of which it made its decision to exclude the 24-year-old from the results of the season-opening race.
Should the matter indeed be referred to the WMSC, it would not be the McLaren's first brush with controversy in recent campaigns, having been fined a sporting record $100 million and disqualified from the constructors' world championship in 2007 over the espionage row that rocked the top flight to its core.
In an interview with German broadcaster RTL, triple former F1 World Champion Niki Lauda – now an outspoken commentator on the sport – has blasted the fact that it took the FIA four days to come to a definitive ruling on the subject as 'the biggest joke of all time'. |
With all of the scandal surrounding McLaren, it may be hard for them to get good talent in the future.
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It was a serious offense and I wouldn't be against serious measures. But I doubt they'd eliminate him from the series for '09. After all, F1 is a business and Hamilton/McLaren are a big draw.
In the meantime, when will Ecclestone finally take his leave? When he's 90?
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