June 13, 200718 yr how good was canada???? As a Kimi fan and Massa fan the race was about as pleasurable as getting the ebola virus
June 13, 200718 yr Author It showed exactly how safe F1 cars considering Kubica only really got a sprained ankle out of that horrific 180 mph crash! As a Jenson fan it wasn't so great :lol: But as a Hamilton fan it was brilliant and a race to remember :cheer:
June 13, 200718 yr As a Kimi fan and Massa fan the race was about as pleasurable as getting the ebola virus Well it's their own faults. Kimi has been $h!te this year which is a shame. It was great seeing Heidfeld he's a top class driver YET AGAIN! :D
June 13, 200718 yr Because they spend millions upon millions of pounds making them that safe. If road cars were that safe they would be unnaffordable to about 98% of car owners. Edited June 13, 200718 yr by RabbitFurCoat
June 15, 200718 yr It was great seeing Heidfeld he's a top class driver YET AGAIN! :D I agree I hope the next step for BMW will be a win!
June 16, 200718 yr All bow down and worship Lewis Hamilton: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43057000/jpg/_43057277_hammy203.jpg Another poll position for tomorrow's USA Grand Prix.
June 17, 200718 yr All bow down and worship Lewis Hamilton: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43057000/jpg/_43057277_hammy203.jpg Another poll position for tomorrow's USA Grand Prix. And another victory. Seven straight podiums in seven races, 10 points ahead of team mate Alonso in the Drivers Championships.
June 17, 200718 yr I agree I hope the next step for BMW will be a win! Only 1 point, from Vettel :( Good race though, great for Hamilton! Sports Personality is one horse race, surely?!
June 19, 200718 yr hamilton to hit a wall HARD!!!!!!!!!! stupid gimp is gonna ruin f1 single handedly!! hes such a cocky git! a f***!ng monkey could put that maclaren on the front row! even fisichella could win a bloody race in the maclaren. if hamilton is so good i'd like to see him try 2 drive the r27 from the back of the grid (22nd) to 4th like hekki did. but i guess nobody relly saw true talent coz hamiltons ego overshadowed everything else. reminds me of button in 2004. "yeah i think we've got a good chance of a win" my arse by the way, he usually said that from 12th on the grid. cocky git
June 19, 200718 yr Exactly, Hamilton is driving the car that is the absolute class of the field he SHOULD be finishing in the Top 2 every race with the superiority that McLaren has atm so I am just regarding him as doing his job atm, if he was winning races in a BMW or whatever I would be hailing him from the rooftops but the fact he is getting the best car on the grid that has bullet proof reliability onto the podium to me is no more than he should be doing anyway
June 19, 200718 yr Author The thing that's so great though is the fact that Alonso who's won it twice on the trot has EXACTLY THE SAME CAR yet he's currently beating him, Massa and Raikonnen also have bags of experience and the Ferrari's aren't too far behind the McLaren's in terms of pace yet he's beating them as well! Not many drivers can get seven podiums in a row no matter what car they are in so it's a massive achivement! The car is why Jenson is not doing so well however :( Hamilton has showed he's a world class driver just like he did before F1 hence why Ron Dennis had the confidence to put him straight in a McLaren rather than wait for a Spyker or a Torro Rosso to get him to see how he does at this level first.
June 19, 200718 yr hamilton to hit a wall HARD!!!!!!!!!! stupid gimp is gonna ruin f1 single handedly!! hes such a cocky git! a f***!ng monkey could put that maclaren on the front row! even fisichella could win a bloody race in the maclaren. if hamilton is so good i'd like to see him try 2 drive the r27 from the back of the grid (22nd) to 4th like hekki did. but i guess nobody relly saw true talent coz hamiltons ego overshadowed everything else. reminds me of button in 2004. "yeah i think we've got a good chance of a win" my arse by the way, he usually said that from 12th on the grid. cocky git To be fair all Kovelainen and Wurz had to do in Canada was keep the car on the road. I'd hardly call it a brilliant drive, it was mostly luck and the teams decent strategy! I know that Lewis SHOULD be finishing high every race, but to be better than a double world champion hailed as the successor sto Schumacher is incredible. He does have a huge talent. You can say all you like about him driving other cars but you can only do your best with the car you have. Hamilton is doing that and doing it bloody well too!
June 19, 200718 yr Alonso does crack under pressure at times though and forced into mistakes Jarno Trulli put him under real pressure in 2004 and was ahead of him in the points standings when he was fired and he started making mistakes, in 2005 and 2006 Fisichella was too mentally weak to put him under pressure but Hamilton is not fazed by Alonso's mind games and so on I think it is a case of Alonso has under performed a bit this season
June 19, 200718 yr And just because you're in one of the best cars doesn't mean you're always going to be at the top. For the whole time I've been watching F1 I've thought that Barrichello and Ralf Schumacher have vastly underperformed in their good cars, and Fisi in the last two years too. They're all decent drivers in top 3 cars but they always seemed to be outperformed by their teammate and looked out of place. I never understood how Rubens got 6 years in a Ferrari!
June 19, 200718 yr Ferrari was Team Schumacher though, Barrichello was willing to take a nice $6m a year to be Schumacher's slave without moaning about it like Irvine did so that is why he stayed so long IMHO A mid grid level driver driving in what was the best team he knew what side his bread was buttered
June 19, 200718 yr An interesting article: Giving Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso equal-number one status at McLaren is a huge mistake, according to four-time world champion Alain Prost. McLaren boss Ron Dennis has always insisted that his drivers are free to race each other, but Prost, a four-time world champion between 1985 and 1993, believes taking this approach will simply cause a ruckus stance is simply playing with fire. "I think it's a mistake to have two cars of the same status in the same team," the 52-year-old Frenchman told Spanish newspaper El Pais. "In the end it will work against them because it will create too many tensions." Alonso's tension was already obvious after Hamilton's Canadian Grand Prix win as he produced a ragged performance, and then declared he was "uncomfortable" with the balance in the team. And following Hamilton's victory in the United States race after a straight fight with the Spaniard, his mood is unlikely to have improved. Prost knows a thing or two about inter-team rivalry at McLaren, having been paired with Ayrton Senna for two years. Senna won the 1988 title in a good-natured battle, but tensions exploded a year later when the Brazilian broke an agreement with Prost and won at Imola. The season culminated in a collision at Suzuka in Japan that resulted in Prost retiring from the race and Senna winning before being disqualified for his part, handing the Frenchman a third title. Such was Senna's disgust that when they arrived at the same race 12 months later, he vowed revenge on Prost, who had moved to Ferrari by that point. Prost, who needed to win to keep his hopes alive, got the edge off the startline but Senna simply drove him off the road at the first corner, putting both out of the race and handing the Brazilian the title." The Frenchman believes McLaren's hi-tech simulator which has been so lauded by the team is helping Hamilton, but not by enough "Hamilton has used the simulator much more than Alonso and he drives more smoothly than the Spaniard," he added. "As a result I think it is easier for McLaren to adjust their cars to Hamilton's characteristics. "But that doesn't disguise the fact that Alonso is a super driver, a great, great driver." Source: Eurosport.com
June 19, 200718 yr Ferrari was Team Schumacher though, Barrichello was willing to take a nice $6m a year to be Schumacher's slave without moaning about it like Irvine did so that is why he stayed so long IMHO A mid grid level driver driving in what was the best team he knew what side his bread was buttered That, for me, just proves how good Hamilton is! It proves that Barricello had no real ambition to be any good. He was happy to be number two but if he really put work into it he couldn't matched Schumi far more often. It's a great credit to Hamilton that he's not only mirrored what Alonso's doing but bettered him. He's put the pressure on him and forced him into mistakes. Characteristics of a World Champion, I feel.
June 28, 200718 yr urgh hamilton fans. support sum1 with talent, not dumb luck an a car with a second an a half advantage
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