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Or does it seem like Lewis Hamilton is slowly losing his grip?
He's increasingly making wreckless mistakes and generally not thinking properly when things don't work right. His season seems to be slowly unravelling
Today he dirfted off in quali 2 (fair enough **** happens he was trying hard and the wind was causing problems) but instead of ducking into the pits which is an obvious thing to do after an off with plenty of time left in the session, he stayed out for a nothing lap and burnt off a load of precious fuel for no good reason. WTF:confused:
He looked far more stable in his first season although to be fair he had a good advantage over Ferrari then which he doesn't have now
He's pretty "ordinary" this season IMO, nothing special at all. Theres much much consistent drivers not making the silly mistakes he has so far.
Last seasons performance was a one off, just like i said it would it about a year ago :)
oh come on people..... he is still driving very quickly, not many people have a good second year in F1... especially when Mclaren struggle to put 2 good consecutive seasons together, & having had ferrari rifle through their designs & been fined $100million, the poor lad is just overdriving a not great car.
Rick Draper
06-07-08, 12:39 AM
TBH i think the main issue is Mclaren are missing the development drive and focus Alonso had on the team.
O and i dont think Ferrari have rifled through any of the Mclaren designs....
I think its all about pressure. Last year he was bound to impress as there were no expectations. This year, everyone expects him to win.
He will be a champion, there is no doubt. Its just everyone expects him to do it now ffs.
is this the Abbey national advert? lol
mikey14sr
06-07-08, 12:30 PM
Ferrari didn't, but the FIA took both designs under the microscope and forced McLaren to change a couple of bit's that looked identical.
Hamilton lost touch when he wore his tyres out last year imo, everyone could see the carcass showing on the fronts, but he just kept going round.
give him a few seasons and he will win it. he still learning about it and will make many more mistakes yet. but for his age and how long he has been doing it he is doing very well imo. but dont help as i think Mclaren arnt quite as good as they were a few years ago
lee-loon
06-07-08, 12:47 PM
hes got a lot of pressure on his hands,hes only human.
TBH i think the main issue is Mclaren are missing the development drive and focus Alonso had on the team.
O and i dont think Ferrari have rifled through any of the Mclaren designs....
Have you ever heard of the j damper, mclaren have a patent on it, & ferrari nicked it, but ron dennis is not a man to go to court over things like that.
ps. LEWIS JUST STUFFED EVERYONE PROPERLY!!!!!!!! THAT WAS THE SORT OF DRIVE ONLY SENNA OR SCHUMACHER COULD HAVE DONE
Respect to Hamilton for todays race :)
Rick Draper
06-07-08, 08:51 PM
LEWIS JUST STUFFED EVERYONE PROPERLY!!!!!!!! THAT WAS THE SORT OF DRIVE ONLY SENNA OR SCHUMACHER COULD HAVE DONE
Personally i am more impressed with Rubens, afterall his car is a right ****box.
O and I am sure if ferrari had had there hands in mclarens designs just like last year the fia would take a dim view on it...
same here rick, rubans was fecking flying. was well happy for him
lol well there was the answer. An emphatic NO!lol
I think what was particularly special about his drive today was the series of back to back to laptimes he put in on inters - very close to those on the full wets when it was teeming it down and way faster than everyone else on inters.
He won by a over a full minute by sheer ability with the right equipment at the right time. It was reminescent of a Schumacher win in Jerez in similar conditions. He clearly has a feel for grip that the rest dont really have - look what a mess Masa made.
This may have been a season defining moment
Personally i am more impressed with Rubens, afterall his car is a right ****box.
O and I am sure if ferrari had had there hands in mclarens designs just like last year the fia would take a dim view on it...
The whole fiasco last year, was because 2 men working for the 2 best teams, thought they could go to Honda & earn tons of money, then Alonso threw his teddy out of the pram because the newbie was getting equal treatment, & told Ron Dennis that he wanted top spot or he was going to tell the fia about their contact who was feeding them some info on the ferrari. Ron actually made the call himself.
ferrari have a special relationship with the fia, haven't you noticed how every time the fia come up with some rule change, the red ones are in there straight away, agreeing to it. they even had their lawyers at the fia tribunal!!!!!!
Ferrari's technology partner AMD is also supplying equipment to the fia, Ferrari have been caught with illegal items on their cars which have miraculously been found to be legal after a short meeting behind closed doors, WHY? because they threaten to sod off to do leMans, or indy or whatever, every time something doesn't go their way...... they even built an indy car in the nineties just to get their way.
I'm not being anti red, but I find some of their actions to be a trifle unsporting. I have been following f1 since 1981, & I remember when Berger crashed in the silverstone pitlane, having got provisional pole to try & get the session redflagged.... Sound familiar????????
Ive never been a fan of Ferrarri tbh. I thoroughly enjoyed yesterdays race purely to watch Massa attempting ballet, and ****tenhan trying to leapfrog lewis by not changing tyres.
I felt the most sorry for Kovi.
Ham for the win this year!
Ahh so there you lot are, the arm chair experts Ron Dennis was on about lol
:p
Ahh so there you lot are, the arm chair experts Ron Dennis was on about lol
:plol that was a quality comment
Lol you're right Dar.
No-one is saying its easy being Lewis, and he's clearly top top talent but you gotta admit some of his mistakes have been school-boy errors.........
er..... oh yeah thats cos he is onelol
lol
Typical "British" sports person - it's like Murray in the tennis - the press get so hyped up and build them up and we know - we just know - theyre gonna bring them down in a crash!
Hamilton's doing okay - if the press and the pundits left him alone and we supported them "properly" rater then speculating I think he and hundreds of other sports personalities in the UK would do so much better...
Typical British attitute - we think we're great at everything and our press ham it but big style and then when the reality "we're average" strikes - everyone blames the hyped up "average" spots person...
Ade
(living in Scotland where we have a real expectation on our National teams)
lol
ADE, you have had a scottish driver since 1994, he is due to retire at the end of the year, he came 2nd in the championship.....not bad for a country that hasn't actually existed for 300 years..........
dar, us armchair experts are the people who buy the products that keep them in jobs, so we are entitled to an opinion.....
dar, us armchair experts are the people who buy the products that keep them in jobs, so we are entitled to an opinion.....
That you are:thumb: I had to break out the Ron Dennis comment though. It was just too good to miss:D
ADE, you have had a scottish driver since 1994, he is due to retire at the end of the year, he came 2nd in the championship.....not bad for a country that hasn't actually existed for 300 years..........
the square jawed one? my point exactly - he got hyped up - the next big thing. Rose high then fell with a crash - press slaughtered him (he rakes in the cash) - drops out the limelight and is now retiring because everyones forgotten about him...
:wtf:
meritlover
09-07-08, 01:20 AM
jenson button was another of a British man that raced a good race, then didnt race a good race, now is not talked about much anymore.
jenson is in the unfortunate position that Jacques Villeneuve was in... being in a woefully underperforming team, but getting HUGE money for dragging a pile of crap round every 2 weeks, then it goes & rains, & he shows he can still drive...
The thing you have to remember is that every single guy sat in every car in F1 used to be a championship winner in the lower formulas. You dont get to pilot an F1 car by being average.
Its mostly the machinery thats competing in real terms, not the drivers.
The thing you have to remember is that every single guy sat in every car in F1 used to be a championship winner in the lower formulas. You dont get to pilot an F1 car by being average.
Its mostly the machinery thats competing in real terms, not the drivers.
there are loads of f1 drivers who are there because of money & connections & not from being a champion.
I don't think Jenson Button won a championship..
I don't think Nelson Piquet jr is in the 2nd renault because of talent, if so, he has a funny way of showing it.
I am shocked at just how poor Sebastien Bourdais has been in the STR. He won champ Car 4 times in a row.
not to side track the thread but i reckon amir kahn should fight someone worth fighting. he fights people on there way down and makes a big deal of it.
oh and yeah lewis hamilton aint all that and a bag of potato chips
I don't understand the relevance of this, but Kahn fights official opponents, and thats how boxing works, it is not a championship but a series of promoted matches.
from your last comment, I take it you have not followed his career much...
every championship so far, he has been either the best rookie, or won it, so on results alone, he is all that.
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