WARNING:  If you haven't seen the Monaco GP race yet, and don't want to have everything spoilt for you by me, DO NOT read this. If you have and you want to read thinly veiled rant about the result, read on.

Firstly - why can't Formula 1 (and European based series in general) understand Safety/Pace Cars?

Safety cars are a thing that have become normal in Formula One in recent years, especially at tracks like Monaco and Montreal. Before last season a new rule was introduced on safety grounds. The pit road would now be closed for a number of laps while the entire field was collected behind the Safety Car. The thinking being that it stopped drivers from hurtling round the track, through, hypothetically, shards of  Carbon Fibre, Turn Workers and Medical/Recovery vehicles, to take advantage of the SC. To me this makes perfect sense. However, to the big wigs and brains behind Formula One strategies fail to understand this. As part of the rule if you pitted for fuel before the pits were open you would be given a drive-through penalty. Of course in order to do this a car may have to carry a few laps surplus fuel compared to when they want to pit. THAT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. Yet people continue to be caught out by it. While the SC periods of this race went off without incident, mainly due to their timing (very early and very late), the rule has cost people in the past - Alonso at Canada last year, Hiedfeld at Barcalona earlier this season after Kovalienen's crash. It's not like this rule is sprung on the at the last minute. It's in the rule book. The same rule book teams probably pour over for months trying to find a grey area and push the envelope on their cars and strategy.

Worst comes with the farcical rule that ALL lapped cars can overtake the leaders, unlapping themselves. This isn't just a lucky dog - it's a whole litter of them. I can understand why this is done. In years past a lapped car stuck between the leader and 2nd (or similar scenario) has allowed a massive gap to open up, killing off any race. However, wouldn't it be easier ( and a lot quicker) to have them drop to the back of the train of cars - preserving the one lap deficit that the lead cars have been good enough to build up, rather than gifting a lap back to those who have up to that point struggled. Today's race saw Kovalienen and Hiedfeld take a number of laps to overtake the lead pack, and who knows what effect that had on results (both theirs', and others' - well specifically Kovalienen's as Hiedfeld was already about 4 laps down.

Today's other big races. The Indy 500 and the Coke 600 will both see numerous Safety Car periods, and all will be handled far better than F1 ever does.

Secondly. Apply here to join the 'We hate Kimi Raikkonen Collective'.

The man is a --------- (something that FOX will probably censor, so I'll let you choose your own word to fill that gap). He is utterly uninspiring (I've referred to him on here before as 'The world's most boring Finn' and I stand by that) and incredibly overrated. He spent years at McLaren breaking cars simply by looking at them, lucked into his only championship because the other team got it's knickers in a twist and has spent this a fair chunk of this season missing bits of car. Round 1 Australia. Spins a few times in some truly rookie errors. Rounds Then-Now. Looks second best to Massa, who, while far from perfect, looks like he should have the number 1 on his car.

Now he proves his talect is very limited. Going straight on at the first corner and making a royal hash-up of the chicane to take out Adrian Sutil - this week's unluckiest man in sport. If it was the other way round - Sutil in the inferior car, screwing up and taking Raikkonen out, everyone would be up in arms about how Sutil doesn't deserve to be in Formula One. But when Kimi does it nothing happens. Mike Gasgoyne, part of the upper echelons of Sutil's Force India team, says that the team have complained to the stewards about the accident, and well they should. Drivers have been penalised before for causing avoidable accidents - and that's what it was. I'm saying Kimi went out ot try and take Sutil out, but I can't help but think that he always knew he had the car there as his own personal crash barrier, and so made little/no effort to avoid it. However, nothing will happen as it's a Ferrari that the FIA will be punishing, and that's like Turkey's voting for an early Christmas.

What made it worse is that post race the head of Ferrari was interviewed by British TV, and asked if he felt bad because one of his driver screwed up and cost a team and a young driver their first points. His primary concern is that THEY lost points. I understand the competitive nature of sport, but have some heart. It's not like they are battling with Force India or Sutil for a title. It's not like Sutil didn't deserve to be there. He earnt that position, by not making any mistakes, something that cannot be said of Ferrari today. I hope that there is some sort of apology from Ferrari, either verbal or financial (Ferrari supply Force India's engines) to show that Ferrari are not complete --------- (use you chosen word again).