I can see this happening and rendering the 2014 a laughing stock and a joke.
"And Lewis Hamilton WINS the championship!"
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I can see this happening and rendering the 2014 a laughing stock and a joke.
Indeed
I'm actually reappraising my view of Hamilton this season. I still believe he is a great racer, I'm not sure he is actually as special as I believed him to be. If he starts to blow Rosberg away I will feel more comfortable I called it right, if he struggles and its pretty equal through the season I shall change my view a little.
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It's 4-2, would be 5-1 but for an engine failure and had the yellow flag not ruined his pole lap(which I'd put say a 85% chance he would have made) then it would be 6-0 with 5-1 in poles.
The insane situation is how many races Hamilton has to win to secure it before the final race.
If Hamilton wins 9 of the next 12 races and came second in the other 3 he'd have 394 points before the final race.
If Rosberg comes second in those 9 races and wins the other 3 he ends up on 359 points. Meaning if Rosberg won the final race and Hamilton DNF'd, Rosberg could win the title with 6 wins vs Hamilton's 13.
If Hamilton wins 13 races and Rosberg wins the title, I give up, would be utterly moronic, the double points was always ridiculous.
Assuming no more DNF's for either driver and their continued 1-2 finishes, Hamilton needs 10 wins in the next 12 to win the title before the final race, which is absurd frankly. He could have course win the final race and Rosberg DNF's there and ends up with a huge point gap.
Who knows.
If people can't see why Hamilton would be greatly upset with the way Rosberg screwed up qualifying at this race. Winning 4 on the bounce is difficult for anyone, to get an unlucky DNF in the first race, spend 4 races owning your opponent to lead the title by a tiny margin then be cheated out of a pole is a huge huge blow.
The insane situation is how many races Hamilton has to win to secure it before the final race.
If Hamilton wins 9 of the next 12 races and came second in the other 3 he'd have 394 points before the final race.
If Rosberg comes second in those 9 races and wins the other 3 he ends up on 359 points. Meaning if Rosberg won the final race and Hamilton DNF'd, Rosberg could win the title with 6 wins vs Hamilton's 13.
If Hamilton wins 13 races and Rosberg wins the title, I give up, would be utterly moronic, the double points was always ridiculous.
Assuming no more DNF's for either driver and their continued 1-2 finishes, Hamilton needs 10 wins in the next 12 to win the title before the final race, which is absurd frankly. He could have course win the final race and Rosberg DNF's there and ends up with a huge point gap.
Who knows.
If people can't see why Hamilton would be greatly upset with the way Rosberg screwed up qualifying at this race. Winning 4 on the bounce is difficult for anyone, to get an unlucky DNF in the first race, spend 4 races owning your opponent to lead the title by a tiny margin then be cheated out of a pole is a huge huge blow.
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Could well be, and while I'd like to see the race, I'd actually prefer to see someone winning 13 wins get the title over someone with 6 wins. Plus, drama adds to the sport 
It's way to early to be talking about that though, Hamilton's tires were done mostly because he was following Rosberg so closely. I don't think Riccy/RBR really closed the gap in any way but later in the season some of those second places could easily turn in to thirds.
I really do hope that we have a fairly even title fight, in that I mean, Rosberg has relatively speaking the same luck/DNF's/reliability as Hamilton. If Rosberg DNF's a race and Hamilton wins then they both finish up the season with Merc 1-2's, whoever wins, (unless via the last race) it's fair.
It doesn't look like Merc are going to run into massive problems with 5 engines and penalties at the end of the season but that is possible too. As is rain, a collision between them before hand or a collision between one of them and anyone else.
I was just highlighting the absurdity of the potential points situation, one DNF and one double points race basically mean Hamilton has to win 8-9 more races if there are no other problems. Get rid of that 50 point race and it's effectively 2-3 race wins less.
I don't want it to go down the final race at all, because they they'll hopefully can it completely... or add more double points races, no telling what those idiots will do.
Actually the reality is if someone wins the title only via double points and the backlash is epic from the fans, that is what will see them scrap it and never consider it again.
It's way to early to be talking about that though, Hamilton's tires were done mostly because he was following Rosberg so closely. I don't think Riccy/RBR really closed the gap in any way but later in the season some of those second places could easily turn in to thirds.
I really do hope that we have a fairly even title fight, in that I mean, Rosberg has relatively speaking the same luck/DNF's/reliability as Hamilton. If Rosberg DNF's a race and Hamilton wins then they both finish up the season with Merc 1-2's, whoever wins, (unless via the last race) it's fair.
It doesn't look like Merc are going to run into massive problems with 5 engines and penalties at the end of the season but that is possible too. As is rain, a collision between them before hand or a collision between one of them and anyone else.
I was just highlighting the absurdity of the potential points situation, one DNF and one double points race basically mean Hamilton has to win 8-9 more races if there are no other problems. Get rid of that 50 point race and it's effectively 2-3 race wins less.
I don't want it to go down the final race at all, because they they'll hopefully can it completely... or add more double points races, no telling what those idiots will do.
Actually the reality is if someone wins the title only via double points and the backlash is epic from the fans, that is what will see them scrap it and never consider it again.
Exactly, those who are pointing the finger saying Hamilton is weak and will lose it really need to get real.
All that hard work from Lewis clawing back the points with some great races after a DNF, and all he gets is Rosberg doing the dirty*. Can't blame the guy for being a bit emotional.
*either by the inital 'off' or by reversing back towards the track, he's guilty of atleast one.
I'm with you on this, previously I have always held Hamilton up as being amongst the fastest natural drivers on the grid, and Rosberg something of a competent journeyman.
This season is throwing things on its head though, Rosberg looks far closer to Hamilton than I'd ever have expected him to be, even with the dominance of the car.
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Yup, unfortunately the he was down on power from the formation lap.
The real kicker was the spark plug failed because of a £1 spark plug cover, absolute kick in the balls. Okay, that fancy £4000000 engine blows because it's super new tech and bleeding edge, hurts but you can accept it but a £1 piece of plastic IIRC, that has got to be so hard to take.
The real kicker was the spark plug failed because of a £1 spark plug cover, absolute kick in the balls. Okay, that fancy £4000000 engine blows because it's super new tech and bleeding edge, hurts but you can accept it but a £1 piece of plastic IIRC, that has got to be so hard to take.
To be fair he would be 5 - 1 up by now (pretty confident he would have won in Melbourne if it wasn't for his car breaking).
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Great when you're just racing, but you need to string it together for a season, and even when he won the title in 2008, Hamilton couldn't do that. He's nearly 30 - he needs to be much stronger mentally and just brush aside things like Monaco qualifying, stop getting flustered at little things and go out and win the next one.
So far he's a mix between Button and Barrichello in 2009 - he's got the pace and form of Button and the fragility of Barrichello. He's got the talent, just man up and beat the bloke on the other side of the divide rather than sulking when one thing doesn't go his way.
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That much is shown by his only title won by being beating Massa in the final corner of the season. The only other challengers at all were Kubica in a team who'd had one win and had given up after a third of the season and a bored Raikkonen who couldn't get wait to do anything else.
Hamilton is an exceptional driver, but he crumbles so easily, letting things get to him which he shouldn't, and in this case somehow managing to take the weakness of another driver and using it against himself.
I still think Hamilton will comfortably win the title, but he could and should stroll it, but at the moment he's making is so much harder than it should be.
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Lewis should really learn the wisdom behind what his Father says and "Do his talking on the track." Getting in a strop will only egg Nico on. But I can't blame him for the way he feels, he is an emotional person. The poor guy can't punch Nico in the face otherwise it'll get televised.
I'm confident that he will regain his new composure that he started showing at the start of the season after talking to his Dad and will go on to get back to back wins.
I'm confident that he will regain his new composure that he started showing at the start of the season after talking to his Dad and will go on to get back to back wins.
I imagine something happening on track where both drivers go off and Hamilton gets out of car and has a fight with Rosberg, helmet on and all lol.