Thankfully Kubica's manager said he was concious and talking with no injuries, hopefully he's been unbelievably lucky but given the speed and angle I think it's as much luck as safety design that got him out alive.
This GP has been the only good GP for around 3 or 4 years, F1 has just gone to crap the last few years. There is barely any driver skill anymore. Ban everything and bring back good racing
It's funny that you say this GP (incident-filled and full of driving mistakes) has been the "only good GP for around 3 or 4 years," and then go on to say that driver skill has gone to crap.
At the very end of the comms from Hamilton's engineer you could hear him saying "Kubica has broken..." so it sounds as if he has indeed done some more damage than we were first told. Need to wait for confirmation on that one though.
Don't think it's really been a great Grand Prix, too many safety cars/crashes including Kubica's horrible crash, the racing hasn't be great, Raikkonen and Alonso are no where. Credit to Hamilton and Heidfeld they've got in their cars and driven them quickly whilst everybody else has been crashing. Man of the race has to be Sato, for passing Alonso and Raikkonen in a Super Aguri and Wurz has done an impressive drive, up 16 places
The commentators have pissed me off with James Allen's decision that Hamilton has the 'speed of Senna' and Brundle's rambling on that Fisi and Massa shouldn't have been disqualified because the light shouldn't have been red, you don't go through a red light whether you think it should be on or not end of.
The darkest GP since Imola '94 was Austria '03, when Barrichello followed team orders and let Shumi win but made it slightly obvious by parking it on the line. Seem to remember it being a fair crap season with Shumi domination.
Just heard that as well, hopefully that wasn't the full message
Wow, what a dramatic race this was: from Kubica's horrible accident to Sato's amazing drive and Hamilton's first win. Looks like Hamilton's got the championship lead for real now.
Edit: Just read tristan's post, that's very saddening to hear, I was hoping he would be unscathed somehow.
You're thinking of 2002 (2001 Barrichello also let Schumacher pass at Austria but then it wasn't for the lead). 2003 was most certainly not a Schumacher dominated season.
