A team member made a mistake, just the way it goes. It might not be Hamilton's year to grab the brass ring.JimClarkFan wrote:I feel sorry for Hamilton, couple of times this year bad luck has hit him. I feel pissed that he is now at the back of the grid, I wonder how he feels.
So how come no penalty for Button when he ran out in China (was it)?munudeges wrote:No excuses for the team. They knew the score after the last time they did this in Canada.
Logic would dictate that there would be a motive for such a position. What might it be?GrizzleBoy wrote:I don't want to sound like "one of those guys", but I can't help but agree withj n smikle that McLaren DO NOT want Lewis at McLaren and DO NOT want him being in front of Button in the championship.
Don't forget that they underfueled Button in Melbourne, forcing him to drive in a fuel-saving mode for the majority of the race.GrizzleBoy wrote:I don't want to sound like "one of those guys", but I can't help but agree withj n smikle that McLaren DO NOT want Lewis at McLaren and DO NOT want him being in front of Button in the championship.
Australia: Turns out Lewis' bad start was due to a problem with the clutch settings.
Malaysia: They give Button the undercut on Lewis (Button crashes his car anyway)
China: Out of the blue Lewis has a gearbox problem that drops him 5 places. They give him two awful stops. (Buttons wheel nut sticks anyway).
Bahrain: Hamilton has a 10 second stop. Then a 12 seconds top. Then a 6 second stop. (Button can't finish the race anyway)
Spain: "Oh btw we accidently didn't put enough fuel in your car and we are actually playing tetris on these computer monitors so we didn't realise till you had no fuel left."
Sorry, but this goes way beyond bad luck.
McLaren at this stage are a joke even to HRT.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.bhallg2k wrote: Don't forget that they underfueled Button in Melbourne, forcing him to drive in a fuel-saving mode for the majority of the race.
All of this suggests that there's more going on than either favoritism or bad luck. McLaren, for whatever reason, is simply incompetent this year.
The thinking of the stewards is that he failed his only fuel check and therefore they do not know if any of the runs were legal or not.McMrocks wrote:but ham did a legal Q2 so he has to start on p10!
he failed the post scrutineering check , therefore he got disqualified - that's the rules.myurr wrote:The thinking of the stewards is that he failed his only fuel check and therefore they do not know if any of the runs were legal or not.McMrocks wrote:but ham did a legal Q2 so he has to start on p10!
It's still a ridiculous penalty though - perhaps they should have checked the logs from the car showing the recorded fuel levels or suspension loads. I'm sure they could demonstrate that the final run had an anomaly.
And if he runs with much fuel they know it? u can run in q2 and q1 with fuel which is not enough for the check (only enough to come to pit)myurr wrote:McMrocks wrote:but ham did a legal Q2 so he has to start on p10!
The thinking of the stewards is that he failed his only fuel check and therefore they do not know if any of the runs were legal or not.
It's still a ridiculous penalty though - perhaps they should have checked the logs from the car showing the recorded fuel levels or suspension loads. I'm sure they could demonstrate that the final run had an anomaly.
No it's not a conspiracy, it's incompetence, plain and simple.n smikle wrote:I think it was done on purpose. There is a conspiracy going on in that team.
