After all the complaining Jarno Trulli has already done from his crash into Adrian Sutil at Interlagos 2 weeks ago, he still continues to cry foul. Not only does he continue to defend his viewpoint, but he even has pictures to show to Sutil to prove he is right! Sutil left plenty of room for Trulli. He needs to stop complaining. Move on.

[F1-Live and Autosport]

A while ago, my father discovered YouTube, and decided that he would start searching for possible sightings of him at either Woodstock (the original) or some of the Watkins Glen Formula 1 Grand Prix from the ’70s. Sure enough, he found, well, himself. There he was, at the 1971 Watkins Glen Grand Prix at 21 years of age. Unforunately, the YouTube video disappeared, and we couldn’t find the video anywhere…

So just the other day, I did a search on Google for the video……..and found it! My father Chris Riley (boss of Riley Racing) can be found at film time :13 at the far right, just behind Jody Sheckter. He’s got dark long hair, a mustache, and a white shirt.

Luca Badoer has been given the chance of a lifetime to race for Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1, and he’s slower than the 19 year old rookie from Toro Rosso, Alguersuari. Not only is this embarrassing to Badoer and his abilities, but it is an even greater mistake by Ferrari and Di Montezemolo. Why didn’t Ferrari learn from other teams’ mistakes of using a test driver to replace a racing driver in a Grand Prix weekend? Most recently, De la Rosa got a chance in the McLaren and while still running a decent pace for the event weekend, a regular test driver just cannot be expected to jump into a Formula 1 car and be competing for a win, or even points, during a Grand Prix event.

Marc Gene has just recently won the 24 hrs of Le Mans with Peugeot, so why not use Gene to replace the injured Massa? Many speculate that Ferrari wanted to payback their loyal test driver, but at what cost? This is a Championship winning outfit, why would you put a driver in a car just for loyalty? Why wasn’t Ferrari loyal to Schumacher when they kicked him out of the team to make room for Raikkonen? These are questions that will likely remain unanswered.

Ferrari will obviously wait to see what sort of race results Badoer can provide before replacing him for GP events, but Ferrari needs to make sure they get a driver who has been racing recently, and can at least lap faster than 20th place.

After the last (and first) two races of the 2009 Formula 1 season, and the promise of so many improvements over last year, Formula 1 and the FIA quickly disappointed fans, including this one.

What’s the point of a checkered flag anymore in Formula 1? When the checkered flag falls, the race is over, and positions are set. The only classification changes that should be warranted are for CLEAR violations of the rules that happen within the last 5 laps of the race. Let me clarify “CLEAR”: any violation that even the blind could have identified. Any other violations that warrant a penalty should be taken care of during the race so that the results are accurate when the checkered flag waves.

There are too many rules for not only the drivers to follow, but there are far too many for the fan to follow. Rules can easily be remembered and recited for the majority of the worlds’ most popular sports; in Formula 1, you now need to watch a race with the Official FIA Rule Book on the table for reference.

As far as the Lewis Hamilton “liargate’ issue is concerned, since when does an athlete admit to a mistake??? When a baseball runner slides into homeplate, and knows that he did get tagged, but it was a close call…do you think that runner is going to admit to the umpire that “Oh yeah, I got tagged…I don’t want to be dishonest.” NO. When a football (American Football) player has a questionable call if both of his feet were on the ground at the line for a touchdown, do you think the player is going to tell the referee “Actually, don’t give my team that touchdown, I didn’t really have both my feat down.” NO. Point being: why is it considered horribly dishonest in Formula 1 to claim your innosence, even if it is false, and it is considered normal in other sports? And even if there is audio or video proof of one’s wrong-doing in motorsport, why should such evidence allow further incrimination?

Yes, the rules are the rules. But where does the FOM’s and FIA’s ruling end? It should end at the checkered flag. Let the race be a race. Don’t ruin Formula 1 by classifying the results in a court.