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..... i don't get 1 thing. Why FIA (Charlie) investigated after race incident with blue flag??? so now Michael will get minimum 5 grid penalty
This team is ridiculous ... even Michael was nervous .. i'm wondering why he don't start to talk about what really happen with this "TEAM" so whats next?? i'm so frustrated about what happened with Perez
The performance is currently even worse than in the previous years. In the years before they were at least finishing P7 or P9.
Now they constantly finish out of the points.
Today is the third race in row that they have proven once again; they really dont know what the f#ck they are doing.
They are always optimistic for the next race, but they get dissapointed race after race.
I dont mean it bad, because they are really trying to make something of it. They have updated their diffuser for this race and other small things, but they seem to be a child who is trying to cook a chicken in the microwave.
Good intention, but not knowing what to do.
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wow ..that must be one of their worst races so far.
Schumacher plugging on after the first lap incident and retired with a few laps to go.For what? they could have done a test session as well ..
The picture of Schumacher retiring the car and walking just away was a fitting end to the weekend .I don´t see any hope to score points on merit any more let alone podiums.
This team is sure facing a hard time these days and an explosion is immanent .Is this good or bad for Hamilton next year?
marcush. wrote:wow ..that must be one of their worst races so far.
Schumacher plugging on after the first lap incident and retired with a few laps to go.For what? they could have done a test session as well ..
The picture of Schumacher retiring the car and walking just away was a fitting end to the weekend .I don´t see any hope to score points on merit any more let alone podiums.
This team is sure facing a hard time these days and an explosion is immanent .Is this good or bad for Hamilton next year?
schumi retired with 4 laps till end of the race because he want a new gearbox next race so they test enough (44 laps) and Rosberg this team is bad but for Hamilton is very good.
No matter what he do next year he will achieve more than this season .... and car will be better than this so if he win 1-2 races all ppl will blame Michael (especially Jordan , Coulthard and Hill)
I am starting to pity Rosberg more than Schumi somehow. Schumi at least had achieved so much already in the 1st part of his career. But what about Rosberg?? He wasted 4 years of his career trying to make Williams a strong team and now wasted another 3 years in Mercedes and this team seems to go no where at all.
Glyn wrote:What are the chances of Mercedes buying team Lotus / Sauber
Zero, considering the amount of effort they have put in restructuring over the past 3 years, and the biggest point being ENGINES. Lotus will always be a Renault team and Sauber will stick to Ferrari.
banibhusan wrote:I am starting to pity Rosberg more than Schumi somehow. Schumi at least had achieved so much already in the 1st part of his career. But what about Rosberg?? He wasted 4 years of his career trying to make Williams a strong team and now wasted another 3 years in Mercedes and this team seems to go no where at all.
+1 completely agree
Sad career fortune for Nico
Maybe the 2014 engine change will help them
That is what Lewis is looking forward.
rosberg..well he might end as a second Frentzen with only a few wins ..amazing how he was unable to lead his teams to success.
Lets turn back time which are the drivers who had comparable kack handed decisions in their racing career? One might think of Alesi,Frentzen,Trulli ,Fisichella. all drivers wh wasted the best years in teams that could not win or only once a year ...
marcush. wrote:rosberg..well he might end as a second Frentzen with only a few wins ..amazing how he was unable to lead his teams to success.
Lets turn back time which are the drivers who had comparable kack handed decisions in their racing career? One might think of Alesi,Frentzen,Trulli ,Fisichella. all drivers wh wasted the best years in teams that could not win or only once a year ...
Yeah but what about those drivers in great cars that are similarly unsuccessful..
Coulthard, Berger,
Mercedes is a ghost team, they are in the championship but they are nowhere to be seen. Hamilton such a great driver will not be competing at the top for the comming 3 years. If i where on the Mercedes board i would have pulled the plug, and only be a engine supplier in F1. And try to get a contract with Red Bull for 2014 and beyond. This team is incapable of doing something right. What a waste of money! In 2009 Mercedes could have saved a lot of money if they had chosen you suply Red Bull with engines. Now the have nothing, Since Mclaren isnt the works team anymore they will make switch after 2013, Mercedes F1 is subpar. So after 2013 Mercedes wil not be winning race's. Maybe they can convince Red Bull to make a switch to Merc for 2014.
Irvine:"If you don't have a good car you can't win it, unless you are Michael or Senna. Lots of guys won in Adrian Newey's cars, big deal. Adrian is the real genius out there, there is Senna, there is Michael and there is Newey.They were the three great talents."
Reading the posts it's very said to see them. Of course even harder to see a true legend and a still young and great driver struggling with a car that isn't updated properly. At least much of the early reliability problems now solved.
Just only for one small reason I give another year for this whole Mercedes rebuilding project. That is because I believe that this sport is very hard and what this team is going trough since 2009 is not an easy challenge. Next year if they can keep up or can close the difference to the front during in season, it will be a good sign for 2014.
There were some signs already this year that they can be fast. The problem was that they failed with in-season developments. That is partially now explained by Brawn. The aero team was a crap and there are new guys, a new organisation mid-season and they need to settled down. So one more year but in 2013 they need to show strong in-season developments to make me believe they can make it in 2014.
Just my thoughts...
Michael Schumacher: When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.
at least Ted Kravitz tell us how Michael get injured .... he played football match and tried a tackle (probably on artificial grass) [and also he said "at least i got the ball" ]
i really don't know what to say i just watched SKY Sports post race interviews and Michael have no hope for something nice in last 3 race .... he seemed so (i really don't know what word to say) ... so calm and released? probably he now realize that how naive was to believe this team can win a championship
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this team is bad but for Hamilton is very good.
(especially Jordan , Coulthard and Hill)
