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[Fenderman]

Heh, heh. Great but not that great.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I've just found out that there is an official sarcmark it looks like this

there is a way of entering it as a font but it requires downloading a program for the unicode...

 

[MCLS]

I apologise if this has already been asked, but when was the last time Ferrari had a driver line up that had two world champions in it?

 

[no-FIAt-please]

MCLS Monza 1953 with Ascari and Farina.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Brazil 2008 for about 5 seconds

 

[GermanF1]

Mephistopheles

 

[Bill Boddy]

Massa was never World Champion, he was only in the lead of the championship.

Yours sincerely,

A. Pedant.

 

[The Pits]

No he wasn't. Points are not awarded until the end of the race.

A. Biggar-Peddant.

 

[Incubus]

Actually points aren't officially awarded until the cars have passed post-race compliance verifications, before which race results are deemed "Temporary".

There. I've out-pedanticked you all.

 

[Fenderman]

Nope, to be truly pedantic the correct way to put it is either "the race classification is provisional" or "the race results are provisional".

Edit: Of course one could always open a few cans of worms to argue the toss over several other results that season to demonstrate or counter arguments that poor young Felipe shouldn't even have been in with a shout by Brazil.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Whatever you do don't mention Singapore I did once but I think I got away with it.

 

[RasputinLives]

Nope, to be truly pedantic the correct way to put it is either "the race classification is provisional" or "the race results are provisional".

Edit: Of course one could always open a few cans of worms to argue the toss over several other results that season to demonstrate or counter arguments that poor young Felipe shouldn't even have been in with a shout by Brazil.

I've not heard that argument butbI've heard a very convincing one for him to have been champion already by the time of Brazil

Also a good one about Lord Lucan.

 

[Fenderman]

Yeah, right ...

 

[Mephistopheles]

Who lead the first lap of last Sundays Brazilian grand prix?

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

Rosberg, I think?

 

[Mephistopheles]

Well this is the problem I watched the highlights last night and according to the timing screens Vettel lead over the line on the first lap by 0.022 seconds so officially who lead the first lap even though Rosberg was in the lead for most of it but not off the line and and not over the line on lap one.

So my question is who officially lead the first lap and does this mean that Vettel actually lead all of the laps again? Or does Rosberg get credited in the record books with leading the lap?

 

[sushifiesta]

If Vettel crossed the start/finish line ahead of Rosberg then I would say officially he lead every lap.

 

[Wombcat]

According to the official lapchart Vettel led every lap:
http://www.fia.com/championship/fia...ship/2013/2013-brazilian-grand-prix-lap-chart

 

[Mephistopheles]

That's exactly what I was thinking but I couldn't be sure a bit harsh on Rosberg since technically he lead for about 99.9% of the lap but officially he wasn't in the lead at any time during the race, I find that mildly interesting...

 

[sushifiesta]

Can someone remind me which qualifying sessions were affected by rain this season (damp track, torrential rain, anything)? And which races?