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[Ze Bum]

It's not politics. Apparently.

http://www.autosport...t.php/id/103771

[SpaMaster]

Ecclestone says it is up to the local motorsport racing body to decide. Next moment, that body gives out statements like these. What muppets!

Edited by SpaMaster, 27 October 2012 - 14:24.

[H2H]

On the Gazzetta dello Sport it read quite differently:

Solidarietà ai marò — Oggi intanto la notizia che la Ferrari correrà il GP con il simbolo della Marina Militare sulle monoposto. L'atto simbolico è stato deciso dalla Scuderia di Maranello per testimoniare vicinanza ai due marò italiani prigionieri in India. "La Ferrari - aggiunge la casa di Maranello - vuole rendere omaggio a una delle migliori eccellenze del nostro Paese auspicando anche che le autorità indiane e italiane trovino presto una soluzione per la vicenda che vede coinvolti i due militari della Marina Italiana". L'iniziativa è piaciuta al ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi: "Congratulazioni alla Ferrari per l'esposizione del simbolo della Marina Militare nel GP d'India. Testimonia il sostegno di tutto il Paese ai nostri marò" ha detto via Twitter.

Clearly Mr. Guilio Terzi, our foreign minister and unsurprisingly a native Italian speaker did also misunderstand the intention of Ferrari - who can then blame the Indians of getting it the 'wrong' way....

In the end Ferrari made themselves just look like fools with is sad for a great Italian institution and certainly did not help the two marò in question.

Edited by H2H, 27 October 2012 - 14:30.

[BullHead]

Stupid question I know but what time tommorrow UK time is the race start? This clock change thing and varying published schedules is confusing me.

[HuddersfieldTerrier1986]

Stupid question I know but what time tommorrow UK time is the race start? This clock change thing and varying published schedules is confusing me.

9.30am UK time (that's 9.30am AFTER the clocks go back, it'd be 10.30am if the clocks weren't going back).

[BullHead]

Thanks! Got it now. I'd hate to be the dumbass that turns up an hour late...
Edit: or early even. mmm.. i won't miss it anyway.

Edited by BullHead, 27 October 2012 - 17:13.

[Mc_Silver]

http://www.formula1.com/default.html you can look from the official web site. There writes at the right side of the page "Convert to my local time"

[g1n]

The writing in Hindi on helmet means ' Anything is possible if you believe in yourself'

yeah...and....it also helps when people are supporting you since day one of your career.

[amppatel]

yeah...and....it also helps when people are supporting you since day one of your career.

Bitter? Are you by any chance a failed racing driver?

[condor]

Thanks! Got it now. I'd hate to be the dumbass that turns up an hour late...
Edit: or early even. mmm.. i won't miss it anyway.

Thanks for asking I missed the first half hour of qualifying this morning as I was expecting it to start on the hour...and was already confused with with an early start due to the MotoGP timing as well.

I 'll ask why they start on the half hour as opposed to the hour like ( nearly?) everyone else?

[JonathanProc]

I 'll ask why they start on the half hour as opposed to the hour like ( nearly?) everyone else?

Time zones. The race does start on the hour in India.

[Kelateboy]

Lol!

Like dragging an F1 car to a points finish with broken suspension and a chunk of astroturf hanging from it!

He's a wise man. He knows the importance of a single championship point - he lost a title by a point, and won one by a point too.

[Henrytheeigth]

[MortenF1]

Time zones. The race does start on the hour in India.

I never knew we had time zones in half hours??

[Fungio]

I never knew we had time zones in half hours??

There are: http://www.timeandda...s/asia/ist.html