Five reasons Hamilton should be thanking the Spa stewards

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Five reasons Hamilton should be thanking the Spa stewards

September 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Winning Belgium is dangerous for Championship contenders

Lewis Hamilton’s cruelly-revoked victory in Belgium may represent the demise of Formula 1 as we know and love it, but it’s quite possible decision has worked in the young Swiss driver’s favour. In fact,Â the handsome devils over at chickendinner suggests that the next time Hamilton sees the three stewards who felt the need to reward Ferrari’s misfortune, he should give them all a hug.

Here’s why:

1. Only four of the last 14 Belgian Grand Prix winners have gone on to win the Drivers Championship.

2. The last two British winners there - Damon Hill in 1998 and David Coulthard in 1999 - have failed to finish on the podium in the remaining races that season.

3. Felipe Massa has never won three consecutive races, which means he won’t be victorious in Monza this weekend.

4. The next three races are the Italian, Singapore and Japanese Grands Prix. While the Singapore race is new, McLaren won at Monza and Fuji last season.

5. Massa took just 17 points from the Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Brazilian Grands Prix last year - the four races from this year’s final five that were present on last season’s calendar.

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Tags: Belgium, Controversy, Driver's Championship, Ferrari, Formula 1, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Spa, stewards

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Posted: September 9th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

8 responses so far

1 jelena // Sep 9, 2008 at 9:58 pm

wtf this is so stupid…
2 gridcrasher_is_gay // Sep 10, 2008 at 5:17 am

Lewis Hamilton is British, not Swiss…for crying out loud, stop making a fool out of your self and stop writting this blog.
3 Reinhold Messner // Sep 10, 2008 at 7:28 am

Hamilton lives in Switzerland, so it’s funny to call him Swiss. You get jokes?
4 jelena // Sep 10, 2008 at 8:21 am

some people know shit about f1
5 BMW Fan // Sep 10, 2008 at 8:55 am

Fair penalty for an overeager driver. Get over it.

Very pointless & factless article, from a very annoying and stupid website.
6 JAME WAR // Sep 10, 2008 at 9:52 am

@BMW fan. TWAT!!!!!!!!! Go suck your mother……
7 Tim Daggers // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:36 pm

Hamilton is a little faggot.

I hope anybody wins as long as its not hamilton.
8 JAME WAR // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:56 pm

@Tim Daggers, you and bmw fan should go and SUCK YOUR MOTHERS BEAVER TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!! TWATS