Compounded Errors
The British Grand Prix was marked by costly and embarrassing mistakes: from Kimi Raikkonen's engine failure to the inexcusable gaffe of drivers chatting and laughing during the minute of silence held on the grid. Richard Barnes analyses the errors from the eleventh round of the season
It had been hoped that July, the busiest month of the 2005 F1 calendar with four Grands Prix almost back to back, would help the sport to recover from the Indianapolis debacle and return to a state of relative normality. The British Grand Prix at Silverstone was disrupted even before the weekend had begun, by the news of Thursday's horrific bomb attacks on the London transport system.
The F1 circus is usually adroit at handling disasters and tragedies beyond the scope of its own small and self-centred universe. Which made it all the more incredible, especially in light of the recent Indianapolis events, that the sport should once again shoot itself in the foot.
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