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Apr 24 25 tweets 17 min read
Formation Lap. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lights out!!! #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Disaster for the Scuds at the start. Lec loses two places at the start and Sai beached on the gravel by Ric's McLemon bringing out the safety car. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Scuds may have the best car but they can't seem to shake their run of bad luck. Sai did nothing wrong there and was taken out. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 5. and we're racing. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 7. This is depressing. Lec is already 5s off the lead. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 8. Lec breezes past the McLemon of Nor. Now setting off after Per who's 3s up the road. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 12. Lec is catching Per, just under 2.5s behind. But needs to get a move on if he's to pass and catch Ver. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 15. Lec is under 2s behind Per. But over 8s off the lead. And RB will be happy to sacrifice Per's race to help Ver. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 18. Lec is under 1s behind Per but no DRS. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 22. Lec has it all to do again after everyone pits for slicks. But he's now 0,5s behind Per and doing fastest laps. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 24. This is ridiculous. Why Isn't DRS enabled? Per is just holding Lec up. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 30. The refusal to enable DRS is just handing the race to Ver and turning this from a race into a procession. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 33. Lec is now 12s off the lead thanks to the Race Director, so even if he were to get past Per, it will be hard to catch up to Ver. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 36. Finally, DRS is enabled. Lec is 2.3s behind Per but can now get after him seriously. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 39. Recalling how long it took Lec to catch Per and the fact that the Scuds are harder on their tyres, we'll be lucky to get P2 out of this. That atrocious delay in enabling DRS has completely ruined the chances for the win. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 43. Scuds should just pit Lec for soft tyres and give him the chance to chase down Per if he doesn't respond or undercut him if he does. Even if he drops behind Nor, it should be easy to get past. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 47. Lec is just dropping back from Per. Over 3s behind. Clearly won't catch him on track. Scuds should throw the dice and pit him unless there's a chance of rain. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 51. Lec pits and Per responds. But the gap is now 1.3s. We have a race for P2! #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 52. Lec is within DRS! #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
FUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!! Lec spins into the wall and has to pit for a front wing. Now P9. And that the end of the race. 8 laps to go.
Such a disaster of a race. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
3 laps to go. From a potential P2, Lec will be luck to finish P6. Nothing has gone our way today. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Ver wins. Per. Nor. Rus. Bot. Lec. Tsu. Vet. Mag. Str. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
And just to rub salt in Scud wounds, one McLemon took out Sai and the other benefits from Lec's error to get on the podium. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1

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Mwai Kibaki epitomised Kenya's tragedy. A brilliant guy who talked a good game but when it came down to it was incapable of confronting the colonial legacy and became an intrinsically corrupt element of the "Old Establishment" he had warned about.
“Will the elite, which has inherited power from the colonialists, use that power to bring about the necessary social and economic changes, or will they succumb to the lure of wealth, comfort and status and thereby become part of the Old Establishment?” Kibaki asked in 1964.
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