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He's still young and hasn't done anything to deserve the accolation, I am not saying he is a bad driver, he's just not as good as people make him out to be.
Poll: 2008 Brazilian GP - Race 18/18
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He's still young and hasn't done anything to deserve the accolation, I am not saying he is a bad driver, he's just not as good as people make him out to be.
We all know what really happened; if this has already been posted idk, didn't read all
haha good one that would be nice to see him do in reality going over 150 mph on last corner
By a stroke of fate on the last corner. If he had fought back and taken Vettel, I'd have been more praising...He just seemed to go 'oh well...That's it' as soon as he dropped to sixth.
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and if my aunt had balls she would be my uncle!
All drivers have incidents that cause them to lose points, thats racing.
Soldato
So did all dry tyred cars put in similar lap times? Honest question as I don't know.
As far as I thought, that part of the track wasn't as wet as the main straight as in the first shower and Glock made no effort to defend his position and near enough pulled over. The back of his car twitched but he's offline on the dirty track so dry or wet his car would twitch.
I'm sure its just one of those things - not like Toyota need a bung from Mclaren is it
Man of Honour
Trulli and Glock both did identical lap times within a tenth of each other, both on the dry tire.
So did all dry tyred cars put in similar lap times? Honest question as I don't know.
As far as I thought, that part of the track wasn't as wet as the main straight as in the first shower and Glock made no effort to defend his position and near enough pulled over. The back of his car twitched but he's offline on the dirty track so dry or wet his car would twitch.
I'm sure its just one of those things - not like Toyota need a bung from Mclaren is it
Glock and Trulli on drys. Both did 1.44's on last lap. Rest of field did 1.30's
Soldato
yes i believe there was just 2 left on the track on the dry tyres and both did a 1.44 i think
edit dam beaten to it
Not really.
If you'd listened to the interviews after the race you'd have heard that the McLaren team told Hamilton not to worry about Vettel because they could see on the GPS and timing screens that he was going to catch Glock.
Honestly, Lewis cant win - he's criticised for being hot headed, then when he drives an incredibly mature and conservative race he's criticised for that too!
It was a close race and season. Both drivers were superb, as a single point at the end of the season shows. It could have gone either way, so cant we just celebrate that it went to a Brit for a change!
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It might not have been quite as wet but it was going up a hill so he couldn't do anything. Glock was behind another car and at the speed he was going it would have been hard to defend his position, he could have taken himself out completely.
Caporegime
My point exactly, just because you don't like lewis doesn't mean you can't be happy that a British driver has won, i'm not asking anyone to brown nose him or anything!
Man of Honour
If Glock put the power down to the max, he would be facing the way he just came from becuse of damp track and on slicks. I didn't want Hamilton to win.. but he did so I accept it.
Glock is not the one to blame
Glock is not the one to blame
Caporegime
To be fair if Hamilton had finished second then i think a lot of the Massa fans would find it easier to accept.
As a LH supporter i clearly love that he won the WDC HOWEVER i don't feel he finished the season in the correct way.
As a LH supporter i clearly love that he won the WDC HOWEVER i don't feel he finished the season in the correct way.
If Glock put the power down to the max, he would be facing the way he just came from becuse of damp track and on slicks. I didn't want Hamilton to win.. but he did so I accept it.
Glock is not the one to blame
Exactly, it is just the way things planned out, and Im sure a Mclaren tactition looked ahead at the times and did a few cheeky sums to work out that hamilton should catch glock before the end and breeze past him whilst he struggled for grip.
If glock had come in, he would have been way down behind hamilton and vettel anyway.
Boring middle part to the race, great start and fantastic end to a great season. Well played Lewis + mclaren, even with some harsh penalties they came out trumps and lewis got what he deserved !!!!!!
Thank god for that
I thought it was a crap ending, would have liked Hamilton to win clearly.
and freaking hate Renault's boss, cant even be bothered to google it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR36LbhBAg4
This commentary, even though in Spanish, is better than James Allens
This commentary, even though in Spanish, is better than James Allens
Caporegime
yes it was
definition of "it was handed to him" meaning that he only got it from benefitting from somebody else's mistake. Be that wrong tyre choice, crashing or engine failure its all the same.
The fact of the matter is, hamilton did not get 5th purely out of his own merit, 5th was given to him when somebody else dropped behind. Not hamilton pulling an amazing turn of pace and overtaking somebody.
having said that, im still over the moon hamilton won, but others saying its a bit of a hollow victory have a point. Massa couldnt have done much more, but it was only some horrible twists of fate (pit lane disaster in singapoore any1?, glock on dry tyres any1 ?) that handed hamilton the title.
Soldato
Yeh and Massa didn't deserve the win at Spa, but it happened, Both Hamilton and Massa had things work in there favour, aswell as against them.
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