Firstly, respect to Forensic who has already dedicated part of his frame-by-frame post to the very incident I am about to tear apart.

F1 has always been home to a sizable dollop of controversy, most of it to do with the FIA, the body who sanction F1, having a bias toward Ferrari. Whether or not this is true is not really up for discussion, although if you look hard enough you can probably find it discussed ad infinitum

The latest chapted in the epic tome came on Sunday, when in a race that ended in a situation where I was ready for Penelope Pitstop to come past in the Compact Pussycat, and at a greater speed than any of the, supposedly top, drivers was managing. Picture the scene, Lewis Hamilton is looking to make a pass into the pedestrian-slow Bus Stop Chicane, round Kimi Raikonnen's Ferrari, already tip-toeing round a mildly wet track. He moves up the outside for the right-hand side section and was alongside the Finns car as the two went to the left hand side portion of the corner.

As the two approach the corner Kimi forces Lewis off the track and on to the tarmac run off area on the inside of the corner. This forced move meant that Lewis had cut the corner, and as is excepted in F1 he had to give the position back. A similar set-up is used at numerous F1 tracks, the Nouvelle Chicane (after the tunnel) in Monaco, the final turns of Montreal's track and the various chicanes of Mangy-Cours, where Lewis was penalised for a similar misdemenour earlier this season.

Snd he gave the position back, allowing the Ferrari man past to the extent where Kimi could pull infront of Lewis heading down to the La Source hairpin. Lewis duly outbraked Kimi into the hairpin, in what most of the world saw as a fair move, regardless of the remaining two laps of (what turned out to be) chaos.

But the FIA decided it was not so and docked Lewis 25 seconds for gaining an unfair advantage, and while it may not have been openly said, it has to be preseumed that it is for the events described above.

Now, let's look at the FIA rules, or what is published on Formula1.com for what they have to use in giving penalties, using the relevent section (Driver penalties). And imeadiately there appear to be giant holes in the FIA ruling.

Lewis was forced off the track - his only other options were to run straight into the Ferrari or run over the curb and wet grass/astroturf, which probably would have had the same result. In my opinion this was something that should have been ruled against Kimi, with Lewis being mostly alongside, consistent with the B-pillar ruling that is part of the rules in a majority of touring/stock car series. Basically Kimi should have given Lewis the room to take the corner.

But Lewis, forced off, does give the position back, and once in front by a car length Kimi pulls infront of him. Lewis had said that he hoped, once he'd let Kimi past to take advantage of the tow down to La Source. However, there is no rule that Kimi had to pull over to the racing line, if he believed he was that slow he could have taken the defensive line, rather than allow Lewis to get in his tow.

On top of this there is absolutely no sign that any of this actually influenced the result. Lewis and Kimi swapped places at least once more in the following 3/4 of a lap. The eventual accident that saw Kimi smear Ferrari all over the wall was nothing to do with Hamilton, and so it may well have happened no matter who was infront.

To cap it all off, I can't find mention of the rule that means you have to give the position back, but perhaps that's just because the F1 rule book has more holes than swiss cheese. Hmmm. sounds familiar.