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I don't want to get into this, specially when such person is involved, but I can't remember anything like that from Hamilton, but certainly I could be wrong.
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Autosport Top Story- 31st May 2007
Q&A- Ron Dennis What was your reasoning behind running such a strategical race? Our strategy was based on the probability of a safety car period and other cars that could threaten us as a result of the safety car being deployed. I don't like to slow drivers down, because I am an absolute racer. Why is Monaco such a special case? It's a place where one driver pushing another driver can induce a mistake. Then everybody would have said, "What an idiot the team principal from McLaren is for allowing his cars to compete, where one of them's in the barrier". That's not the right way to go. Does Lewis have an equal shot at the world title? Of course he does. I've been criticised in the past for not favouring a driver and frittering a way a world championship. We will never favour one driver, no matter who it is; we never have and we never will. Where do you draw the line between team orders and team strategy? Strategy is what you bring to bear to win a Grand Prix. Team orders manipulate a Grand Prix. And we have not manipulated Grands Prix- unless there were some exceptional circumstances that occurred. Q&A- Lewis Hamilton It looks like your team-mate is continually fuelled shorter to gain the best shot at pole in Q3. Does that frustrate you? At the end of the day, I am a rookie and I finished second in only my first Monaco GP, so I can't complain. And to see I am of a similar pace to Fernando is a positive for me. But it is something I have to live with. I've got the number two on my car. I am the number two driver. Why did the team decide to pit you earlier than planned? We were both on two-stop strategies, and if the safety car had come out it could have had a big effect on us and we wouldn't have ended up with the points we finally scored. It was important to get us both in because anything could have happened. It was the safe route. Is it difficult to come to terms with being the number two driver? Well, there wouldn't necessarily any team orders. The team didn't say I had to stay behind Fernando. It would have been easy for me to maybe push a bit harder and touch the barrier or push Fernando into a mistake. Coming into this year, I expected to be the number two driver. I am just a rookie. Last edited by Born Racer; 2 Oct 2010 at 11:21. |
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What does it tell you, do you reckon?
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Only that at some later point in the season Hamilton had a complete change of attitude!
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That there was a driver hierarchy and team strategy was a euphamism for team orders; although it's all very well reasoned.
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Reading that reminds me just why Alonso felt the need to sabotage his own team.
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Uhn... what a need.
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Getting back to the original question and in the light of what happened today there is, for once, quite an interesting about Lewis on Crash.net: http://www.crash.net/f1/news/164087/..._downfall.html
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Interesting article, Strider. It is one of the reasons why Lewis is such an interesting driver that he races all out. Unfortunately that can cause a lot of problems, as we have seen lately.
As for his 2010 title hopes - well after his last crash in Singapore and what with his McLaren's lack of pace I can't help but think that he is out of the hunt. I know it is still close at the top and anything can happen in the race, but still I think the odds are against Hamilton. |
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I have this feeling that you're right. I was watching P1 and he only had about 45 minutes in that plus another 10 in P2. It's going to be tough, particularly if tomorrow is wet and the race dry.
Maybe that never-say-die attitude will help him pull something out of the bag. I hope so. |
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So Lewis has had 1 win, 3 DNFs, 2 crashes and one more today since I started this thread.
Jinx. |
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Yes, I must admit in my eyes his stock value has with a few stutters, gradually declined over the course of this year.
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He's just hit that crap run of results/form that every great driver suffers from at some point, it's not as though he's been slow is it, just an unfortunate run of events and subsequent incidents.
In 2008, the sort of thing that happened to him in Singapore would probably have gone in his favour, not Webber's as it turned out. Sometimes things just go against you and there's nothing you can do? |
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Think if he didn't crash in Monza or Singapore. He'd finish behind webber in the latter but not Monza. I don't think it was entirely his fault at Monza, nor at Singapore. But what happens, happens. Those points are valuable, but Hamilton will rebound. There's 4 races left including Japan. that's a possible 100 points. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say he has the possibility to win Korea and Abu Dhabi. Long straights, tight corners, high speed will play into McLaren's car. Brazil is another potential circuit he could win at. There's nothing but up from here. He's aggressive, good. I'd rather someone go all out and try to pass than watch 'follow the leader' like almost every other driver, bar some Alonso or Kobayashi.
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I have no doubt there will be. It doesn't take 2 weeks for the pavement to cure. And if what they're saying is true the final layer was laid yesterday. So I HOPE there is one, and I expect there to be one. If there wasn't one we'd probably know by now.
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On the thread about the possibility of the Korean GP going ahead, it was said it can take 4 weeks to cure.
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The subject seems to have changed somewhat, but Charlie Whiting is not going to inspect the circuit until after Japan, so we won't know until then.
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