Australian Grand Prix 2015, Melbourne - Race 1/19

Yay its back. Anyone else starting to turn on Lewis? Since he's turn into this 'evangelical' Hamilton, he really grinding my gears. But I was going to turn anyways now that Honda are back.
 
elmuzzy66. said:
Anyone else starting to turn on Lewis? Since he's turn into this 'evangelical' Hamilton, he really grinding my gears. But I was going to turn anyways now that Honda are back.
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I started taking a dislike to him in his first season once it started becoming apparent that he wasn't the goody-two-shoes that was being portrayed back then, around the time of the Monaco GP, where things apparently started turning sour behind the scenes. The PR around him was insanely good though - McLaren did an awesome job. Of course, that was all blown out of the water first with the various Hungaroring shenanigans (though to be fair he was less involved than some) and then most of the doubters were shown just how unsporting he could be in Melbourne in 2009.

He can be incredibly naive and childish at times, and I thought he did a good job of generally keeping a top on it last season, as normally those sort of moods linger with him and affects his form for a few races.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching Hamilton drive - he's undoubtedly one of the most naturally gifted drivers I've seen for a long time - I've just never liked the guy out of the car. Perhaps part of the reason is that he's so popular among the casual Brit F1 follower and the whole media phenomenon following him quickly bored me. The BBC still bend over backwards - every race headline where they could possibly include his name, does.

For some reason I couldn't care less what nationality a driver is. I support Brits in other sports, but in motor sport that's never been the case. Even watching Mansell as a 10 year old I think it was his dogged driving style more than anything (which is probably why I enjoy watching Alonso - he's got the same never-give-up attitude and determination).
 
mattyg said:
How far ahead do we think Hamilton would have been last year and this year if he didn't/doesnt have the setbacks.
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If you remove both drivers crashes and car failures, but leave in the unforced errors I honestly think it would be quite similar to the final result, simply because Rosberg lost what should have been 36 points in that final race which made the balance of poor reliability more or less equal.
 
this_is_gav said:
I started taking a dislike to him in his first season once it started becoming apparent that he wasn't the goody-two-shoes that was being portrayed back then, around the time of the Monaco GP, where things apparently started turning sour behind the scenes. The PR around him was insanely good though - McLaren did an awesome job. Of course, that was all blown out of the water first with the various Hungaroring shenanigans (though to be fair he was less involved than some) and then most of the doubters were shown just how unsporting he could be in Melbourne in 2009.

He can be incredibly naive and childish at times, and I thought he did a good job of generally keeping a top on it last season, as normally those sort of moods linger with him and affects his form for a few races.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching Hamilton drive - he's undoubtedly one of the most naturally gifted drivers I've seen for a long time - I've just never liked the guy out of the car. Perhaps part of the reason is that he's so popular among the casual Brit F1 follower and the whole media phenomenon following him quickly bored me. The BBC still bend over backwards - every race headline where they could possibly include his name, does.

For some reason I couldn't care less what nationality a driver is. I support Brits in other sports, but in motor sport that's never been the case. Even watching Mansell as a 10 year old I think it was his dogged driving style more than anything (which is probably why I enjoy watching Alonso - he's got the same never-give-up attitude and determination).
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Marc Priestley said that virtually the whole garage was glad to see the back of him when he left McLaren.
 
this_is_gav said:
I started taking a dislike to him in his first season once it started becoming apparent that he wasn't the goody-two-shoes that was being portrayed back then, around the time of the Monaco GP, where things apparently started turning sour behind the scenes. The PR around him was insanely good though - McLaren did an awesome job. Of course, that was all blown out of the water first with the various Hungaroring shenanigans (though to be fair he was less involved than some) and then most of the doubters were shown just how unsporting he could be in Melbourne in 2009.

He can be incredibly naive and childish at times, and I thought he did a good job of generally keeping a top on it last season, as normally those sort of moods linger with him and affects his form for a few races.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching Hamilton drive - he's undoubtedly one of the most naturally gifted drivers I've seen for a long time - I've just never liked the guy out of the car. Perhaps part of the reason is that he's so popular among the casual Brit F1 follower and the whole media phenomenon following him quickly bored me. The BBC still bend over backwards - every race headline where they could possibly include his name, does.

For some reason I couldn't care less what nationality a driver is. I support Brits in other sports, but in motor sport that's never been the case. Even watching Mansell as a 10 year old I think it was his dogged driving style more than anything (which is probably why I enjoy watching Alonso - he's got the same never-give-up attitude and determination).
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Quality driver but a petulant child. No one has ever told him no, really gone to his head.
 
Start to dislike? Hamilton's always been an unlikeable ****. He's an epic driver and I will support him, but I'd never want to be friends with him and feel sorry for anyone who has to spend time with him when he's not just being a racing driver.

As for practice, I'm recording FP1 and FP2 and watching them back to back from 4.30am to 7.30am before heading off to work :D.
 
smr said:
Marc Priestley said that virtually the whole garage was glad to see the back of him when he left McLaren.
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Saying the same old crap year in year out. And the season hasn't started yet.

DiCe! said:
Quality driver but a petulant child. No one has ever told him no, really gone to his head.
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You wouldn't of said that if he was racing for McLaren ;)
 
Wouldn't be surprised if that is the name of his first rap album after leaving F1...

And on the subject of disliking him, I'm completely the opposite, don't care how he is out of the car I just want to see him do well in it!
 
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Here we go again then!

Hello everyone, who's making the bacon sarnies ready for far too early o clock on Sunday? :D
 
smr said:
Marc Priestley said that virtually the whole garage was glad to see the back of him when he left McLaren.
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Pretty sure every driver becomes a pain in the ass when they haven't got a winning car. Alonso didn't exactly leave Ferrari on good terms, and Vettel giving up at the start of the last season probably didn't do much for morale in the Red Bull garage.

In the end, it's the result that counts. No one cares if you're a nightmare as long as you're winning.
 
Kulealshi said:
Wouldn't be surprised if that is the name of his first rap album after leaving F1...

And on the subject of disliking him, I'm completely the opposite, don't care how he is out of the car I just want to see him do well in it!
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I'm more or less the same. I consider myself to be a Hamilton fan, but I honestly couldn't give a monkey's what he gets up to out of the car in his free time or how he dresses or whatever. I like his ability, I like that he's successful, and I like that he's a Brit I can support.
 
Steampunk said:
Pretty sure every driver becomes a pain in the ass when they haven't got a winning car. Alonso didn't exactly leave Ferrari on good terms, and Vettel giving up at the start of the last season probably didn't do much for morale in the Red Bull garage.

In the end, it's the result that counts. No one cares if you're a nightmare as long as you're winning.
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Actually I don't really think RBR noticed as a certain other driver was thrashing him easily in the same car :D
 
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