Hamilton wins the Belgian GP. From third place

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Yep, now he’s won it, a few minutes later he got a 25 seconds penalty that saw him drop two places, behind Massa and Nick Heidfeld. And all this because he cut through a chicane while battling with Kimi Raikkonen for the lead in the penultimate lap.

Have you seen the manoeuvre? If not, check the video below and then come back for a talk. I’m going to commit one of the journalistic faux-pas and tell you that I like Hamilton. Not because he’s British, not because he’s black and not because he races for McLaren, but simply because he’s the only pilot that still acts the way I feel a pilot should.

That said, it’s really hard to judge what the race officials have decided. The way I see it, he cut through, there’s no denying, but the only advantage he got out of that is that he remained in the race, despite Kimi’s attempt to push him out on the grass. It was either that or a crash for both drives so I think he cose well.

Besides, he came behind Raikkonen when he entered back on the track, so there’s no advantage there. What happened after that… well, that’s another story, one that you might tell your grandkids about considering how scarce overtakes have been lately.

So to sum it up, I I’d say that the officials were wrong. It wasn’t an easy choice, as they might be afraid that was it for Hamilton’s manoeuvre to go unpunished, other pilots would do the same thing in the future. Which is absurd, if you ask me. Anyway, the championship table looks the same at the top, with Hamilton just two points clear of Ferrari’s Massa.