A Rosberg suits that role perfectly, but i have a feeling that he is Brawn bound. Altho, if McLaren were to get a steady driver, one that can hold his pace, and give as good as he can get, whilst being consistant, Nick Heidfeld may be the answer, altho he is older, he fits that role perfectly. And he has been classified for arround 40+ races in a row now, a safe pair of hands he would be for the McLarens.richard_leeds wrote:Great race on so many levels.
Kimi showed that McL have a problem with Kovi. They need someone like Kimi. Whilst Kimi had a slower car, he held his place ahead of a faster Sutl. Meanwhile Kovi in a KERS car lost ground to slower cars. Trouble is that Kovi seems to loose his sense of place when it comes to hard racing.
Meanwhile the Brawns showed Kovi had the perfect fuel strategy. I said yesterday that McL had both strategies covered, the leading 2 stop car, and the leading one stop car. If Kovi had been able to hold his place, then he would have won.
McL need a steady Kimi style driver to cover the options while Hamilton does his banzai act. He'd probably be less of a banzai driver as well, the two would hunt as a pair, reducing the current tendency for Lewis to do his Rambo impression.
See, this is exactly why people shouldn't run their mouth.n smikle wrote:This track belongs to the BOSS this weekend.
He has the best line through the chicanes and Parabolica.. It is going to be an easy win for the #1 driver!
Is that why he crashed out of third place, after starting from pole with the best KERS system and highest HP engine in the field?n smikle wrote:He was kicking ass and talking names the whole race .. By the end he had 20 odd seconds on Kimi, superb driving to gain time, never dropping the pace. Still the BOSS when you look at all the predictions about Kimi and Heikki getting the better of him.ds.raikkonen wrote:
How do you feel now? Over exuberance from the BOSS ends him in the wall you could ve almost heard him crying! Kimi gets the podium once again Beat that BOSS
Yeah unlucky on the last lap with the spin out (whatever caused it. not driver error though) but that's what happens when you are that good; the only thing that can stop you is your machine or Nature itself! 8
Great Race by Barichello and Button though. The one stop was definitely the better strategy. Lewis Kimi and Sutil raced their hearts out to no avail.
...except for throwing away a 4 million dollar car for your idiocy, and the after race interview with Whitmarsh showed that he is NOT Hamilton's biggest fan...Super racing wrote:There was a chance, and he did not even have to pass him, just outdrag him out of the parabolica to the start/finish... and he had KERS to help him with that. He was already within 1 second and was catching JB's draft.Whilhelm wrote:3rd is a lot better than not finishing at all. Hamilton could have kept it on the road if he just calmed down and realized that there was no chance of him catching Button.
Not much of a chance, but a slight one, losing 3rd place for a driver out of WDC contention is not that big a deal.
C'mon mate, don't feed the troll..Conceptual wrote:See, this is exactly why people shouldn't run their mouth.n smikle wrote:This track belongs to the BOSS this weekend.
He has the best line through the chicanes and Parabolica.. It is going to be an easy win for the #1 driver!
How well did your subjective reality turn out today?
That is exactly the type of personality that leads to a teams demise much more than its domination.ringo wrote:I would also blame the team for not reigning him in. I have a feeling Whitmarsh was impishly curious enough to play russian roulette with this driver. He knows Lewis very well, he knew the stakes were high.
The race engineer had all authority to say "ok Lewis easy now, 2 laps left take the 6 points", like any sensible team would do, but no, the team went after the guilty pleasure of the Hamilton on the limit spectacle. And whenever Hamilton is ordered to gain a couple tenths, he sees red, goes into berserk mode and is blindly going to drive every lap like a final qualifying lap.
He is too pure,thinks its all about the passion and the drive, just get the damn points and call it a day!!
It was exciting to see him close into JB at the end but there were two few laps for him to make any real charge on JB. Lewis kept the pressure on in the hopes that JB would choke.Ray wrote:I was happy to see Lewis driving the wheels off and it really sucks he wrecked. I think he should have backed off and collect the points for the WCC. He gained absolutely nothing for himself or the team by pushing that hard and crashing.
I don't think the team is wholly responsible but it has to feel good when you tell a driver he has to push to make up 4 seconds in 2 laps when you know its almost impossible, then he actually ends up doing it. It's pretty tempting to ignore the risks and let him go at it.Conceptual wrote:That is exactly the type of personality that leads to a teams demise much more than its domination.ringo wrote:I would also blame the team for not reigning him in. I have a feeling Whitmarsh was impishly curious enough to play russian roulette with this driver. He knows Lewis very well, he knew the stakes were high.
The race engineer had all authority to say "ok Lewis easy now, 2 laps left take the 6 points", like any sensible team would do, but no, the team went after the guilty pleasure of the Hamilton on the limit spectacle. And whenever Hamilton is ordered to gain a couple tenths, he sees red, goes into berserk mode and is blindly going to drive every lap like a final qualifying lap.
He is too pure,thinks its all about the passion and the drive, just get the damn points and call it a day!!
For all of his races in F1, Hamilton still makes rookie mistakes.
Hello.. did you see the other predictions?Conceptual wrote:See, this is exactly why people shouldn't run their mouth.n smikle wrote:This track belongs to the BOSS this weekend.
He has the best line through the chicanes and Parabolica.. It is going to be an easy win for the #1 driver!
How well did your subjective reality turn out today?