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Pasta marinara will be demoted 10 places on the Italian Grand Prix grid as a punishment for both jumping the start in Belgium and colliding with Timo Glock. http://www.autosport...t.php/id/102186 Caterham has been given a €10,000 fine for releasing Heikki Kovalainen from the pits in an unsafe manner during the Belgian Grand Prix, but other pit incidents involving Mark Webber and Michael Schumacher were not punished. http://www.autosport...t.php/id/102203 Romain Grosjean has accepted his one-race ban for causing the multi-car accident at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix, but says the punishment is hard to take. The 26-year-old Frenchman was banned from participating in next weekend's Italian Grand Prix and fined €50,000 after the Spa stewards concluded he caused an avoidable crash at La Source. "When you love racing this is very hard," said Grosjean. "I accept my mistake." Grosjean maintained he did not intend to squeeze Lewis Hamilton's McLaren towards the pitwall on the inside, prior to the contact that caused them both to collide with Fernando Alonso's Ferrari and both Saubers. "We know that La Source is a very tough corner. It was a bit of a crazy start as well with [Pastor] Maldonado leaving [the grid early] and the Sauber [Kobayashi] smoking a lot," said Grosjean. "I did a mistake and I misjudged the gap with Lewis. I was sure I was in front of him. So a small mistake made a big incident. "I didn't change my line, I went from left to right. I was not really wanting to put anyone in the wall - I'm not here to stop the race in the first corner. I'm very, very sorry and I'm glad that nobody is hurt. "But I have to say it is a very, very hard decision to hear." Grosjean, who has been involved in five early-race incidents this year, said he was more angry with himself than with the penalty, but added that the accidents were not all caused by over-aggression. "I did too many," he said. "If there is more than one then that is too many, I agree. But as I say it is not always the same. It's not over-aggressive by braking 200 metres too late, it's just most of the time misjudgement of the space I have in front or the space I have on the side. "It's true that we don't see much in the mirrors and stuff like that and it goes very quick at the start. "I was to be honest 100 per cent sure I was in front of Lewis but I was not so I need to rethink about my view of the car. "I am the most angry at myself to have misjudged the gap with Lewis's car." Grosjean said that his focus now was on analysing what led to the ban and to ensure that the rest of the season continues without error, adding that he hoped it would not affect his chances of keeping his drive with Lotus in 2012. "It is too much. I know that. Some are not my fault, but yeah I will analyse that and I will try to not repeat it in the seven last races," he said. "For sure I don't want to do any more [crashes] by the end of the season. So I will work, I will analyse as much as I can to try and avoid those. Some were misfortune, some were my mistake but now it is time to finish that." http://www.autosport...t.php/id/102205

i want to go to spa..

the tweet everyone was talking about.

yay for kobayashi. Pos Driver Car Time Gap 1. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m47.573s 2. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m47.871s + 0.298s 3. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m47.893s + 0.320s 4. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m48.205s + 0.632s 5. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m48.219s + 0.646s 6. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m48.313s + 0.740s 7. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m48.392s + 0.819s*** 8. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m48.394s + 0.821s 9. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m48.538s + 0.965s 10. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m48.890s + 1.317s Q2 cut-off time: 1m48.993s Gap * 11. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m49.722s + 0.472s 12. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m49.362s + 0.112s 13. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m49.742s + 0.492s 14. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m49.588s + 0.338s 15. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m49.763s + 0.513s 16. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m49.572s + 0.322s 17. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m49.958s + 0.708s Q1 cut-off time: 1m50.126s Gap ** 18. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m50.181s + 1.188s*** 19. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m51.739s + 2.746s 20. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m51.967s + 2.974s 21. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m52.336s + 3.343s 22. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m53.030s + 4.037s 23. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m53.493s + 4.500s 24. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m54.989s + 5.996s http://www.autosport...t.php/id/102121

p3 Times 01 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:48.542 18 laps 02 Kimi Raikkonen Lotus 1:48.683 0.141 21 laps 03 Sergio Perez Sauber 1:48.850 0.308 23 laps 04 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber 1:48.863 0.321 20 laps 05 Jenson Button McLaren 1:49.091 0.549 18 laps 06 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:49.092 0.550 16 laps 07 Mark Webber Red Bull 1:49.164 0.622 21 laps 08 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1:49.266 0.724 23 laps 09 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:49.292 0.750 23 laps 10 Paul di Resta Force India 1:49.382 0.840 22 laps 11 Pastor Maldonado Williams 1:49.561 1.019 23 laps 12 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:49.615 1.073 19 laps 13 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:49.621 1.079 26 laps 14 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1:49.674 1.132 23 laps 15 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 1:49.710 1.168 21 laps 16 Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 1:49.776 1.234 22 laps 17 Bruno Senna Williams 1:50.027 1.485 20 laps 18 Heikki Kovalainen Caterham 1:52.339 3.797 21 laps 19 Charles Pic Marussia 1:52.566 4.024 20 laps 20 Timo Glock Marussia 1:52.630 4.088 18 laps 21 Vitaly Petrov Caterham 1:52.809 4.267 22 laps 22 Pedro de la Rosa HRT 1:53.383 4.841 22 laps 23 Narain Karthikeyan HRT 1:53.562 5.020 23 laps 24 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:58.113 9.571 5 laps Perez hit the front before Alonso, back on the medium tyres, went quickest with a 1:48.542. Raikkonen went second quickest after setting a fastest middle sector time with Perez dropping to third. Button finished fifth behind Kobayashi and ahead of Massa and Webber. http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/8040603/Alonso-Shines-In-A-Dry-Final-Practice

yep, webber = f**ked.

Michael Schumacher has been hit with a fine of €2500 for not using the pit-entry road correctly during Friday afternoon practice at Spa. The stewards, which includes ex-March, ATS and Ensign grand prix driver Eliseo Salazar found that Schumacher "did not stay to the right of the bollard on the left in the pit entry" when he drove into the pits with 28 minutes of the session remaining. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102101 Mark Webber will have a five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix because of a gearbox change. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102106

$14pw. it's got squash courts, cycle spin room + treadmill room and cardio room, boxing rooms, male weight room and woman only weight room (both free weights and machines), 55 exercise classes and three pools.

Spa secures Formula 1 date for next three years The Belgian Grand Prix's future has been guaranteed for the next three seasons, after race organisers signed a new deal with Formula 1 chiefs. The fate of the Spa-Francorchamps event has been the subject of uncertainty over recent years, amid suggestions it was seeking a race-share deal with the Nurburgring or Magny-Cours. But with the Nurburgring alternating with Hockenheim, and French GP plans collapsing for now, Spa chiefs have agreed their own deal. The contract, which was announced by the Walloon Region's economy minister Jean-Claude Marcourt, will run from 2013 to 2015 - and is on more favourable financial terms for the circuit. However, neither Marcourt nor Belgian GP chief Etienne Davignon were willing to speak about the financial terms of the contract during a press conference in Belgium. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101908 it is also schumi's 300th gp this weekend.

well nismo?

if only Princess trozzle was still here................. she was a good sort, always up for it. or so i was told.....

in what car?

no need for that, i made my own 'tool' to do it a few years ago. you put a bolt in one of the engine to gearbox bolt holes then you stick the fork on the bolt then jam the pointy end in the flywheel and then remove flywheel bolts.

spotted a red 430, a white gallardo and a bentley yesterday in jesmond.

spotted a silver r33 gtst trying to do a skid at crossroads. he probably wouldn't have done it if he knew that four hours earlier a bloke took out a power poll up the road trying to do the same thing.... i lol'd

the bloke at suzuki said 50.000km till i should have to take the head off lol.

this is true zebra... but at least i don't have to do my valve clearances till 11.000km.

f**k me i spent over 2g less then that on my 650, you could buy a new one for that...

if they did that alot of scooters wouldn't be on the road.

Grrrr, not happy janice!