F1 Race

[DAVE O]

Makes a change to be on the edge of the seat for the race    

[Pilot Pete]

I was literally falling asleep in the middle of the race, kept nodding off, but the ending was well worth it!

[gp350se]

Fantastic last few laps nearly spilt my beer well done Lewis.

[westy turbo]

Well done Lewis,scare the s**t out of me.....thank God he is 1rst!!!! those monsters with  the hardest compount in the rain.....b****y scary....

[JeffC]

awesome, jumped off the couch the last couple of laps          

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Stewards are looking into incident(s) invloving hamilton and Raikkonen

[Scottish Bloke]

No surprises tho, stewards looking into incident with Hammy and Raikonnen    

[Pilot Pete]

Stewards are looking into incident(s) invloving hamilton and Raikkonen

Of course they are, its standard procedure nowadays to penalise hamilton isn't it?    

[pistonbroke]

Stewards are looking into incident(s) invloving hamilton and Raikkonen

Hamilton and Raikkonen found guilty of RACING each other  

Another night out planned for Max & Co  ?  

[david.c]

Certainley was a dramatic last few laps      

Hope the result stands because he seemed to do things by the book.

Good tactics from Heidfeld at the end

David

[ludo]

the line he took in the last chicane was not really, by the book.. altough he didi not gain direct position from his creative line, that's what allowed him to be so close for the next braking.

And then we have Bourdais, little crying baby finishing seven complaining that he had so much too loose compare to the other guys he was racing against... what a t****r!  

[Blatman]

Raikonnen gained just as big an advantage by going *really* wide later in the lap where Hamilton got back on the track ASAP. Hamilton was also impeded by the spinning BMW, and Raikonnen still couldn't take advantage. Then he spins it then bins it. OK, so the initial "event" may be questionable if you're a Ferrari employee or fundamentalist fan, but Raikonnen had two clear chances to capitalise later in the lap, which he blew all by himself. If the stewards find in favour of the Ferrari, it'll be a travesty of the highest order.

Cue FW500 for the Ferrari press office view...

[neilb]

after the fia created a new rule for massa at the last race i would put nothing past the fia.....if they give lewis a penalty of any kind it is a joke

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

I'm sorry but I don't see anything about the chicane event that was dubious - it was a normal racing joust that ended up with Hamilton having to take an evading line that very temporarily let him in front of Raikkonen. But LH did the correct thing as quickly as anybody could and Raikkonen regained his position. As Blatters said, Raikkonen had a slingshot advantage when he went the long way around when he slid off the circuit but nobody's moaning about that. When you think of the sorts of things The Cobbler got up to and didn't even get a wagged finger, this whole debate is crass. Then there was the ongoing Senna/Prost feud with all the overt shovings off...

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

BBC News

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was stripped of a dramatic victory in the Belgian Grand Prix after stewards handed him a 25-second post-race penalty.

The Englishman was demoted to third place behind Ferrari's Felipe Massa and BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.

The move came after an investigation into a late-race battle between Hamilton and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

Hamilton's lead over Massa in the title chase has been cut by two points.

Massa's team-mate Raikkonen 19 points adrift off the lead

Before the penalty, he had extended his lead over the Brazilian to eight points, with Raikkonen effectively out of the running on 23.

More to follow.