Hamilton in the wet

tuscan_thunder · Post by **tuscan_thunder** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:13 pm

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qt_PJqM-sRc

takes a minute till the race starts. it's his first race in that class.

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:57 pm

The boy is simply awesome, and fook knows how they have such good control of the karts when it is that wet!!!

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:31 pm

Good skills - although the karting wets are very good

dlogan · Post by **dlogan** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:53 pm

shooomer wrote:Ace!
My first drive at Larkhall was that wet and I was crap

Larkhall is usually that wet

Superb footage, Larkhall is an awesome track, was my favourite (best results) Scottish track.

caleebra · Post by **caleebra** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:43 pm

Have done the prokarts at Boyndie in the wet with slicks on

it was shall we say, interesting?!?

PS Hamilton still = a knob

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:48 pm

caleebra wrote:PS Hamilton still = a knob

I have been listening to his interviews recenlty and he is.

Stu160 · Post by **Stu160** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:33 pm

It is speeded up quite a bit

You should all come along this weekend and watch Steven,we always want the rain

Stu

mac · Post by **mac** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:09 am

NOOPS 160 wrote:
Stu160 wrote:It is speeded up quite a bit

You should all come along this weekend and watch Steven,we always want the rain

Stu
By all accounts his sister is faster .......is this still the case

Just like DC then!

Mac

Stu160 · Post by **Stu160** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:23 am

She was in testing last month,but could not pull it off in the race.I think Steven was just playing with her.Come Sunday,Steven always goes faster,thre are trophies to win

Stu

Post by **campbell** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:04 pm

caleebra wrote:
PS Hamilton still = a knob

why's that then?

Edin430 · Post by **Edin430** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:06 pm

campbell wrote:
caleebra wrote:
PS Hamilton still = a knob
why's that then?

loaded - young - famous....

good on him

caleebra · Post by **caleebra** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:56 pm

campbell wrote:
caleebra wrote:
PS Hamilton still = a knob
why's that then?

At the beginning of the season he came across as just genuinely excited to be there, but as the season has wore on he's come across a lot more arrogant and smarmy and has way too much to say (maybe it's in part down to the hysterical media and twats like James Allen). I cant be bothered with his "I love the team" and supreme Ron Dennis arse kissing of late either.

Post by **campbell** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:06 am

caleebra wrote:
At the beginning of the season he came across as just genuinely excited to be there, but as the season has wore on he's come across a lot more arrogant and smarmy and has way too much to say (maybe it's in part down to the hysterical media and twats like James Allen). I cant be bothered with his "I love the team" and supreme Ron Dennis arse kissing of late either.

Ah.

Right enough, I haven't watched many interviews with him since earlier in the season, and I confess the one I did see after Japan was certainly a bit sanguine.

However I think all the F1 jockeys are in difficult positions, moreso the better they finish and higher up the chart their teams go - let's face it many of them are puppets to the sponsors or Mosley or Ecclestone or whatever. Not maybe that surprising that Lewis' interview style has "adapted" therefore

Anyways, he's a gutsy racer and fully earned his stripes on that sodden track at Fuji, IMHO. Were it not for that, I wouldn't be watching the final races of the season [yawn].

Where is James Hunt when you need him eh.

Campbell

caleebra · Post by **caleebra** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:10 am

Not doubting the lads talent at all, he's obviously up there with the best, just think he's a knob

He's obviously at the ol' mind games as well.

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:19 pm

caleebra wrote:Not doubting the lads talent at all, he's obviously up there with the best, just think he's a knob He's obviously at the ol' mind games as well.

Sad fact is that the personal qualities you need to be a really top F1 driver are not compatible with being a nice human being. If you look at the best - e.g. Alonso, Schumacher, Senna - they are nearly all obsessively driven, arrogant, self obsessed, and petulant. All the F1 drivers who seem to be genuinely nice blokes - Herbert, Alesi, Brundle, Webber spring to mind -never seem to make it to the very top of pile. The only F1 driver I can think of in recent times who got to the top and didn't let himself become an arrogant plonker in the process is Damon Hill. Prost and Hakkinen both seem to have mellowed a lot since they left F1, but there are plenty of stories of them both behaving like spoilt children when they drove for McLaren. Lewis is obviously very gifted, but seems to be going the same way as Schumacher et al on the personal front

Mark