Hamilton in the wet

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:42 pm

Dominic wrote:Toys, pram, put back in

Nah its a good sign that F1 is once again worth arguing about.

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:42 pm

1 car in 20 years.

Even the insurance company said they should not have written it off.

Ye I have been lucky only to do one

Post by **campbell** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:23 pm

Haven't watched the YouTube stuff, however from memory there was a fairly crazy period just after the Safety Car pulled in, where I did think "hm Lewis, you are pushing your luck a bit there". He was basically on the gas then the brakes several times - very aggressively indeed - trying to faze Alonso behind him I think.

This seemed a lot more extreme than the usual cat & mouse played by the leader just after the SC pulls in, when they are trying to catch the no. 2 sleeping, or wrong foot them, etc. Don't think even Schumi was ever that erratic!

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:32 pm

^^^^^^
Yep... that's the incident I was referring to in another thread also. He was lucky not to get his arse felt about that. I don't think that he had much to do with the Webber incident though.

tuscan_thunder · Post by **tuscan_thunder** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:33 pm

He's not been penalised which, in my view, is correct.

To say he's cocky is perhaps taking it too far - I would say he 'oozes self confidence' and, in my view, rightly so.

Look at Senna in the late 80s - he was far more 'self confident' but again he was able to back it up.

And let's compare Hamilton to Schuey - or even Alonso who is certainly a 'self confident' individual.

Ever great driver HAS to have self confidence even if it's a facade - it's all mind games - JYS was always convinced he'd NOT win a race but outwardly he had rivals beaten just by being on the grid.

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:35 pm

Seems he has escaped punishment http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 029797.stm

I was kinda hoping for a punishment moving him 10 places back on the grid in China a) because he deserved it - his driving was highly erratic behind the safety car (Martin Brundle clearly thought so too), and b) because it would really have spiced up the last 2 GPs

Mark

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:18 pm

But that would have made it interesting and we can't have that.

ryallm wrote:Seems he has escaped punishment http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 029797.stm

I was kinda hoping for a punishment moving him 10 places back on the grid in China a) because he deserved it - his driving was highly erratic behind the safety car (Martin Brundle clearly thought so too), and b) because it would really have spiced up the last 2 GPs

Mark

caleebra · Post by **caleebra** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:30 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:But that would have made it interesting and we can't have that.

Not without the conspiracy theorists grumbling about a Ferrari stitch up again

RE: Hamilton being a knob, this quote from a member of a VX forum about sums it up better than I could put into words!

shinyandy on type116.com, today wrote:Nothing really, he's clearly very talented but he's clearly a very successful marketing/development experiment that has had millions thrown at it and thus seems devoid of any real character and comes across as a corporate machine with carefully scripted comments all the time

Motorsport should be full of characters and zest and you just know he was bullied at school, sat at the front of the class and was hall monitor

I'm also sick of the Hamilton Mania which portrays him as some God like person plucked from obscurity that will suddenly become the F1 World Champion

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:05 pm

He said on the newsd that if people don't stop bad mouthing him he will quit F1 (yea right) although I am waiting for him to quit the UK because of "the press intrusion"

mac · Post by **mac** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:16 am

NOOPS 160 wrote:It appears Hamilton is on poll for tomorrows GP

I would have thought the DC's position is more deserving a post.

Mac

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:02 pm

mac wrote:
NOOPS 160 wrote:It appears Hamilton is on poll for tomorrows GP

I would have thought the DC's position is more deserving a post.

Mac

Mac in 'i hate hamilton' shocker.

Personally i think they are both deserving of a post, equally as much as each other. They both beat there teammates by a sizeable margin, and did it by driving superbly.

Thats why they BOTH deserve all the praise they recieve.

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:16 pm

Yeah.... come on the Brits!

Maybe it is the sheer number of people reading DC's book that is bringing him good luck...!

The book is good though!

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:21 pm

Rag_It wrote:Yeah.... come on the Brits!

Maybe it is the sheer number of people reading DC's book that is bringing him good luck...!

The book is good though!

and he's got an excellant range of male grooming products out as well

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:57 pm

Was out on a run with TRS so didnt see the qualifying but heard DC had a good result. Looking forward to the race.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:37 pm

Fingers crossed for a wet one