After all the controversy of 2007...

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#1 Redders1989
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...there is another controversy that EVERYBODY has missed, and it concerns a legitimate reason why Kimicould've failed tobe World Champion!

(I know he is now, nothing can change it, but here's an observation I made that everybody missed)

for Christmas, I was given the 2007 Formula 1 Season Review DVD. As you'd expect with everything that happened, the first race I watched was the Canadian GP, and something caught my eye that everybody missed.

Remember the pit stop where Fisichella and Massa jumped the red light? Just a few seconds later, once the light had turned green, ON TRACK, and right by the side of them were waved yellow flags, Kimi Raikkonen passed Christijan Albers. No one picked this up (all focus was on what Massa & Fisi just did), so no penalty was imposed on Kimi.

Could've been a factor that made all the difference...

Also on the DVD, you see Alonso's full crash at Fuji, and boy oh boy, rookie mistake or what. He was driving very slowly and he must've thought he was going too slow or something, and then decided to speed up MID-CORNER. That, in Fuji weather = terrible, terrible mistake. I think it has to be a close battle between him and Hamilton for most embarassing retirement of the year...

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#2 Khoo1992
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Can u decrypt the video in ur PC and post it on YouTube??? :P
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#3 General-Doug
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Can u decrypt the video in ur PC and post it on YouTube??? :PKhoo1992

You know what will happen. YouTube would remove it ina matter of seconds. You know how bítchy big organisations are about copyright ;)

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#4 Redders1989
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I've got it on DVD, it's not on my computer. I think cjek has races on his computer, if he watches it, he'll be able to confirm it.

I'll try and see if I can find a link for you anyways, but I can't guarantee I'll be successful (for the reason stated above).

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#5 Redders1989
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Apologies, it's not JUST Raikkonen here, but quite a few (I guess I only noticed the Kimi one because when he did it he was literally at the side of the yellow flag). Watch from 40 seconds onwards = http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=frkZthE3ChE

I know it's in the exit of the pitlane, but surely that counts as the racetrack, unless there's a rule in which I've missed here?

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#6 cjek
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I've checked back to the video of the event, and here's my take on it. Kimi left his pit box and ended up alongside a Torro Rosso before the pit exit. The Torro Rosso slows slightly due to the slow moving BMW (who had reacted poorly to the green light), and Kimi ends up, legitimately, slightly ahead of the Torro Rosso at the pit exit line. The Torro Rosso then accelerates faster than Kimi, overtaking him under the yellow flag. Kimi then retakes this position by overtaking the Torro Rosso. If I hadn't have closely looked frame by frame at the first part of the incident (Kimi leaving his pit box), it would definitely look like Kimi was in the wrong. Luckily for him, he wasn't. The Toyota may also get off the hook because it was avoiding a collision with the BMW, who was ironically the only person in the whole incident who was clearly innocent.