My father emailed me a quote from somewhere else about this:

"Rubens may well wear his heart on his sleeve. Now we know why. His balls take up the rest of the space."

 

LOL

 

Schumacher ‘sorry’ Sniff Petrol

Michael Schumacher has said he is ‘sorry’ for strafing machine gun fire across the drivers’ press conference at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

‘On reflection my actions were too hard,’ said Schumacher on his website. ‘By spraying the entire room with countless rounds of intense gun fire I didn’t want to endanger anyone. If any of the other drivers had this feeling then I am sorry, it was not my intention to cause them to leap out of windows in a blind, terrified panic.’

The seven-time world champion initially denied that he had done anything wrong by hosing down a room of over 30 people using a series of rapidly discharging hand held weapons.

‘Immediately after the race I was still in the heat of it all,’ Schumacher’s statement continued. ‘But after I looked at the amount of furniture that had been cleaved clean in two by my intense bursts of hot lead, I have to say the authorities were correct to intervene.’

After analysing the way in which Schumacher inexplicably hammered at a crowded space with relentless machine gun fire, F1 stewards have decided to penalise the German driver by insisting that he leaves all belt fed weaponary at home for the next grand prix.

 

^^^

 

Just what I was thinking. Stuff has to be safer and lamer these days, don't they? I don't think his intention was to push him against the wall, rather to try and stop him from overtaking.

Btw, is it against F1 rules to prevent an opponent overtaking from behind?

 

Warwick: Schumacher was nearly disqualified - GPUpdate.net


FIA Race Steward Derek Warwick has explained that 7-time World Champion Michael Schumacher came close to being disqualified from Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix for his vigorous and dangerous chop on former team-mate Rubens Barrichello.

With Barrichello having pitted late in the race, the Williams was forced towards the pit wall before just sneaking through at the start of Lap 66. The incident has since resulted in a 10-place grid drop for Mercedes pilot Schumacher, who has since apologised via his website, at the next Grand Prix in Belgium.

“Throwing a black flag would have shown a better example to our young drivers,” former driver Warwick explained to BBC Radio 5 live, “but by the time we got the video evidence we ran out of time and had to do it retrospectively.

“We interviewed Rubens and Michael and it was kind of disappointing how Michael handled it, so we had no option but to give him a 10-place penalty. If we had enough laps (we would have been able to disqualify him) but you have to have video evidence and make sure all four stewards are in agreement.

“We felt a 10-place penalty is a big penalty to carry for Spa; it kind of puts him out of the race at Spa and hopefully he will learn from that and remember that the new stewards will not tolerate that driving.”

 

It was a game of chicken and i gotta give rubens for winning. I think Coulthardt made the most sense of this by saying the backlash is more a sign that ppl see a chink in Shuey's armor and dont fear/respect him like before. Before his retirement he'd shut up all naysayers with pole fastest lap and the win but that ain't happening with the silver arrow...

 

Good on Reubs for staying in it. Old Schumi or new Schumi, it was a stupid move pushing him that close to the wall.