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Topsy-turvy last few laps with a smattering of rain see Glock fall back and Hamilton take the title.

The FIA have thrown out Hamilton and Mclaren's appeal against the 25 second penalty which lost him the best race of the season and probably the last few years.

Article 152 of the International Sporting Code states that drive-through penalties are “not susceptible to appeal”.

Silverstone was fantastic, if a little wet.

For the trip up, left at Portsmouth 2am (so as to avoid the traffic) as it turns out we maybe left too early and arrived at about 4.30am without encountering any mass traffic. Though I wasn't too bothered as that was only 30 minutes before gate opening time and left a mere 4 hours before the first race.

On gates opening the clearly experienced F1 fans who didn't have stand tickets ran for their favourite spots around the track - having to sit there for the four hours until the first race - definitely the hardcore.

We had a wander around the track starting at the F1 Village then heading clockwise via our seats at Stowe C and back to the entrance, passing maybe the first race of the day on the way.

The F1 Village is unsurprisingly basically a big food and merchandise market including teams cars and various other promotional fun.

So onto the races and the weather: first up was the GP2 which wasn't too wet and was the first loud cars. I'm not too sure who was who as I don't really follow the GP2 much but it was a good race with some close battling and a few cars going off track or coming together near us; Next was a Porsche cup which was wetter but with surprisingly few incidents and I have even less idea of who was who.

After the drivers parade and The Red Arrows came the main event, this time the stands were full and I won't try and do a blow-by-blow review of the race as we all know what happened and I'm not a good writer so I won't torture anyone much longer. The rain came and went, never really being very heavy and then completely cleared to bright sunshine about 20 minutes from the end.

After the mass evacuation of the stands following the race we hung around a for an hour or so to try and let the traffic ease and then went. The traffic wasn't too bad - about an hour from Silverstone to the M40 - then home.

F1 Silverstone 2008 - a set on Flickr

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Formula 1 will finally get a new video game title in 2009, three years since the last official F1 game made by Sony. Formula One Management were reported to be demanding up to $200m for the rights.

First, the good news: the game won’t be exclusive to a single machine, and is expected to be available for ‘major home consoles’ (presumably PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii), PC and other formats. This is very important and I’m sure Codemasters’ expertise in producing cross-format titles helped them win the contract over the likes of Sony. #

I wasn't overly impress with the last revision of Colin McRae's DIRT (some annoyingly over-excited yank commentating 'dood!') and the demo of Race Driver GRID, whilst admittedly only available yesterday, has a shockingly wooly, inaccurate and easy driving engine (compared to Forza 2 anyway) - though the commentator is less excitable, so I'm hoping the F1 game will improve upon this.