Monaco GP 2011 - Monte Carlo

[FrukostScones]

....You just love Hamilton or hate him,....

nah, I don't love Hamilton... I really like him as a racer, but that he would cause havoc in Monte Carlo was so predictable for me after the disappointing qualifying...
his problem is that he can't back down... even when he knows that he is pushing to hard... maybe that is what makes a true racer, but sometimes I wish he would use his brain a little bit more...

[wesley123]

Have to agree, after a dissapointing and unlucky qualifying you just want to try harder to make things right, just causing mistakes.

Same for anyone else, you worked your ass off on something, but at the end it isnt good enough, next time you would try harder, too hard and it will only become worse. Dont think it is a part of using your brain, it is just trying too hard. We have seen it before too, Webber in Valencia, Hamilton in france 2008, just two examples.

I dont even think drivers use their brain when driving, they just do it a natural way. Do not think, it is right there. These guys can dream a whole race simulation and I am sure can drive laps on the track blindfolded. They dont think, they just go by what is antural for them, thinking is what causes mistakes.

[Ray]

. These guys can dream a whole race simulation and I am sure can drive laps on the track blindfolded.

Pretty sure it was Graham Hill that 'drove' Monaco from memory for the movie Grand Prix on a airport runway so they could have authentic sounds and shots of a drivers footwork. That's what James Garner or John Frankenheimer said anyway.

[andartop]

Come on now everybody, let's just let this go. It was obviously just a poor attempt by Lewis to be funny, same thing as with those Spanish spectators that have painted their faces black, no? I mean, Ali G is after all a white British guy dressed up as a junglist, right? See the humour there?

[djos]

Lewis has now apologized to both Massa and Maldonardo via twitter, nuff said really!

Btw, while not agreeing his moves where legit, I did find the Ali G reference funny and not offensive.

[andartop]

Btw, while not agreeing his moves where legit I did find the Ali G reference funny and not offensive.

Same here! But I do have a black sense of humour.

[Ray]

Good to see Lewis publicly apologize but I don't think it was necessary. After watching it that interview a few times I realize I was really harsh on Lewis. I believe him when he says he was merely joking, but I do think he was colossally stupid for saying it. Emotions get the best of people obviously. He's done himself favors by apologizing and I hope that he can be more level headed in the future, after all he did finish 6th after an absolutely brilliant drive. Pot calling the kettle black, he really does need to learn to control his emotions, be a little more humble and accept that not everyone will get out of his way when he wants throguh and he'll have to calm down a little on track and in interviews. Even Brundle said that it's not always someone else's fault. Glad to see he's apologizing and I take back most of what I said as well, I was wrong to jump so quickly to conclusions.

[djos]

I think to anyone who actually watched the interview it is exceedingly obvious he was just trying to lighten things up at the end of a tough interview - it may have been poor taste but imo it was still pretty amusing, it was just a silly answer to a silly question.

[Mr Alcatraz]

Good to see Lewis publicly apologize but I don't think it was necessary. After watching it that interview a few times I realize I was really harsh on Lewis. I believe him when he says he was merely joking, but I do think he was colossally stupid for saying it. Emotions get the best of people obviously. He's done himself favors by apologizing and I hope that he can be more level headed in the future, after all he did finish 6th after an absolutely brilliant drive. Pot calling the kettle black, he really does need to learn to control his emotions, be a little more humble and accept that not everyone will get out of his way when he wants throguh and he'll have to calm down a little on track and in interviews. Even Brundle said that it's not always someone else's fault. Glad to see he's apologizing and I take back most of what I said as well, I was wrong to jump so quickly to conclusions.

Indeed,
I'm the last guy you would call politically correct. But it would not go over very well if It was a Caucasian competing against predominantly blacks saying he was persecuted for being white
However it was in jest.
He just needs to work on his delivery. For example like the comments that the Heavyweight contender Randal "Tex" Cobb made at a large Banquet of Heavyweight Boxers back in the late 70's.
He may have been the only Caucasian Heavyweight there
It went something like this:
Cobb proposes what you could loosely refer to as a toast, ejaculating:

"I'm honored to be here with 25 of the baddest Ni**ers in the world".

Renaldo Snipes (a very talented heavyweight but had a glass jaw and he wasn't a good "finisher") said:

I resent that remark!

To which Cobb replied without hesitation:

"Sit down Renaldo I was referring to the bad ones

[ringo]

Indeed,
I'm the last guy you would call politically correct. But it would not go over very well if It was a Caucasian competing against predominantly blacks saying he was persecuted for being white

Well the reality is there is never going to be a situation like that.

If you say that then the whole world would have to be changed right back to the roman empire for it to have the same effect. It's not as simple as a bunch of guys in a room and 1 of them is a different background.
World history is simply set in a way where what you are putting forward simply fails as an equivalent experience.

That situation simply is not feasible in any multi million dollar sport. Just shows a lack of understanding of what hamilton said, be it a joke or an underlying concern of his.

I don't wrong him either. I don't take it seriously, but then I don't know the FIA personally. They could be racist, they could a secret devil worshiper group, they could be Neo Nazis. We just don't know.
What we do know is that there is inconsistency with the penalties and Hamilton has a point. They pick on him for some reason or the other.
And I'm not going to play dumb and say it's becuase he's british, drives a mclaren or he talks too much. You just can't tell until someone writes a book.

[ringo]

Good to see Lewis publicly apologize but I don't think it was necessary. After watching it that interview a few times I realize I was really harsh on Lewis. I believe him when he says he was merely joking, but I do think he was colossally stupid for saying it. Emotions get the best of people obviously. He's done himself favors by apologizing and I hope that he can be more level headed in the future, after all he did finish 6th after an absolutely brilliant drive. Pot calling the kettle black, he really does need to learn to control his emotions, be a little more humble and accept that not everyone will get out of his way when he wants throguh and he'll have to calm down a little on track and in interviews. Even Brundle said that it's not always someone else's fault. Glad to see he's apologizing and I take back most of what I said as well, I was wrong to jump so quickly to conclusions.

It's Hamilton isn't it?
Dig for all possible penalties to slap him with for no reason but the fact it's Hamilton.
Why?

The world will never know, maybe hamilton or ali g does ?

[djos]

I'm the last guy you would call politically correct. But it would not go over very well if It was a Caucasian competing against predominantly blacks saying he was persecuted for being white

However it was in jest.

I think it was quite a clever joke, i mean how funny is it him being a black guy quoting a white Jewish guy who's pretending to be black and complaining about racism! It's pure comedy gold in my book! =D>

[Mr Alcatraz]

Well the reality is there is never going to be a situation like that.

I disagree if stated in the same context (jokingly as The Boss did), I could see it being used in the NBA, Or NCAA Roundball.
As with Lewis I would take it for the joke it is/was!
I see no distinction!
I was just suggesting that some may not, that's all.

[Mr Alcatraz]

I'm the last guy you would call politically correct. But it would not go over very well if It was a Caucasian competing against predominantly blacks saying he was persecuted for being white

However it was in jest.

I think it was quite a clever joke, i mean how funny is it him being a black guy quoting a white Jewish guy who's pretending to be black and complaining about racism! It's pure comedy gold in my book! =D>

I stand corrected I was not familiar with this character. Actually very witty!

[ringo]

Well the reality is there is never going to be a situation like that.

I disagree if stated in the same context (jokingly as The Boss did), I could see it being used in the NBA, Or NCAA Roundball.

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It's just not going to happen. The guys who pull the strings in the NBA aren't the players remember?
Then there are the majority of fans.