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18 Jul, 28 tweets, 19 min read
Formation lap. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lights out!!! #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 1. Red flag. Disaster for RBs as Ver is taken out by Ham. Joy for Scuds as Lec inherits the lead. What will the stewards make if it?
Ham should get a penalty for that!!! #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Scuds running P1 and P8 after starting P4 and P10. With Ver out and Ham facing a penalty, a podium is possible!! #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Race to resume in 15min. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
If they're to give Ham a penalty, I hope it's not a time penalty but either a drive through or a stop-and-go which he would have to serve within a few laps of the restart. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
A time penalty for Ham, with Ver out and Per at the back would be no penalty at all. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Second formation lap. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lights out!!! #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 7. 10s time penalty for Ham is ridiculous. That Merc will disappear into the distance in short order. And he won't have to stop till the field has been properly stretched out. Lec leads. Sai P6. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 10. 10s penalty at the moment only costs Ham 5 places which is not a bad return for taking out his main rival, is it? Lec leads by 1.3s. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 12. Would actually only cost Ham 4 places. From P2 to P6. That is ludicrous. Anyway, Lec doing well to stay nearly 2s ahead. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 19. Lec having issues with his power unit but hopefully that's been fixed. Ham is within DRS and now effectively P5. What penalty? #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 26. Everything seems to be conspiring to gift this race to Ham. He takes Ver out, gets little more than a slap on the wrist, Nor has a terrible stop and Lec at the front having engine issues. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 30. Horrible stop for Sai. OK stop for Lec. He leads by 6.7s. Sai is P6. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 33. Lec leads Bot by 9.5s with 20 laps to go. A win is actually on the cards!! Who'd have thought of that at the start? #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 36. Aside from the horror stop, Sai is having a stonking race. He'd have been comfortably ahead of Ric but for it. And he might still snatch P5 on track. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 38. Lec's lead has dropped by over 1s. 15 laps to go. This is not in the bag by any means. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 42. Lec's lead over Ham is under 7.5s with 11 laps to go. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 51. Ham passes Lec for P1. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Ham wins. Lec. Bot. Nor. Ric. Sai. Also. Str. Oco. Tsu. A travesty one has to say. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
The dominance of Ver this season is underlined by the fact that despite 2 DNFs from the lead, he is still ahead in the Drivers' Championship. Ham has needed all the luck in the world to stay in touch. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Still, good to have a Scud on the podium. P2 and P6. Great drives from both Lec and Sai. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Anyone believe Ham would have won if he hadn't taken Ver out and only gotten the 2nd most lenient penalty available? #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
This is so reminiscent of the 2018 season when Scuds were running away with the Championship and Vet threw it away. By rights, Ver should be miles ahead in the points but for a red flag in Imola, tyre blow out in Baku and now being taken out by Ham. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Never really been a fan of Max - he's cost the Scuds many a race (I still have nightmares about Singapore 2017). But one feels for him this year. Hope he can come back strong in Hungary. This is still his championship to lose. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
I think Hungary will definitely by spicy given Max's past race behaviour. He had mellowed of late but I suspect the gloves are now well and truly off. Still, more crashes at the front can only be good for the Scuds if they can capitalize. #BritishGP #ForzaFerrari #F1

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THIS!!! What law in Kenya creates the office of the First Lady, and why have we been paying for it since Kibaki's time? (In 2008, the GNU @RailaOdinga and Kamau are attempting to resurrect via BBI tried to include PM's and VP's wives in that deal as well).
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In 2014, then AG Githu Muigai (also of the BBI Brigade) argued that there was no provision in our laws for creating and funding offices of County First Ladies but did not share the law creating one for his boss' wife.
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As "civilized" Europe, including France which had looted Haiti for a century to compensate former slavers, dissolved into WW1, the US robbed the Haitian National Bank then used the killing of the Haitian President as a pretext for a 19-year occupation.
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Question: Kamau says GoK has negotiated with @JNJNews to get 13m vaccine doses for delivery in August. A few weeks ago, the director of @AfricaCDC told CNN they already had 220m doses of the same vaccine available for African countries to collect. Why didn't GoK go for that?
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