Soldato
Maybe he thought it was ok because Vodafone Mclaren facebook show telemetry all the time.
Oh well that was last week...time to move on.
Belgian Grand Prix 2012, Spa-Francorchamps - Race 12/20
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Maybe he thought it was ok because Vodafone Mclaren facebook show telemetry all the time.
Oh well that was last week...time to move on.
The telemetry thing is a bit odd. It has hand written notes on it, and he had taken a photo of it. I highly doubt that he snuck a piece of paper out of a team meeting and wrote the notes on it himself in secret and took a sly photo.
I expect it was done with the full knowledge of a number of his engineers in a team meeting, posted online thinking nothing really off it, and then afterwards realised it probably wasn't the cleverest thing to do.
I expect it was done with the full knowledge of a number of his engineers in a team meeting, posted online thinking nothing really off it, and then afterwards realised it probably wasn't the cleverest thing to do.
Soldato
pfft yeah right, Lewis is always being sneaky in that Mclaren garage.
Soldato
Jerome d'Ambrosio named as stand-in for the suspended Romain Grosjean
i think they shouldnt be able to field a replacement
i think they shouldnt be able to field a replacement
I GUESS you are wrong, feel free to go and do the math. Make sure you add in the points where JB wiped out LH for a win. Or the endless Pastor swipes.
Good luck sorting through it all
Soldato
if they lose out also they may rein there drivers in before this sort of thing happens and anyway if the team mess up in some way and their penalised the driver also suffers so why not the team if its the other way round seems only fair
Soldato
I think the Joe Saward quote/article posted earlier supposed that any team thinking of signing Lewis might not now want to because the tweet of the telemetry shows F1 that Lewis is prone to doing things like this and Joe Saward is thinking teams might not want someone like this in their team.
I don't think he'll leave McLaren, and even less likely that he'll end up without ANY drive but I do think that part of the reason that McLaren aren't too upset publicly with Lewis tweeting telemetry is that surely McLaren can now justify offering Lewis a lower basic salary. Every race Lewis wins between the beginning of the contract discussions and him signing a deal (assuming he stays at McLaren) he can demand more. Every time he prats around releasing technical secrets into the wider world, McLaren know he's just saved them a few £££ a year on his next contract.
mercedes refused his management team awhile back according to rumours and i dont see why they would approach ferrari considering alonso would never want him as a team mate again.
kimi + hamilton would be pretty cool but I don't expect lotus to be as competitive next season.
mclaren is surely the only option if he wants a title shot at any point in the future? maybe the team is siding with button though its obvious who whitmarsh prefers.
Soldato
Is it? Who does Whitmarsh prefer? Button?
I used to read the same after Alonso poo'd all over Mclaren. That he was stuck at Renault and who would want him after he was cheating, threatened his own team boss and sulked and pouted his way through 2007.
The thing with Lewis is he was coming off the back of a win and has peed all over JB on saturdays this year. Why did his head burst the one of the few times this year JB will beat him on a saturday?
I don't think he wants to be there anymore and it's frustrating him there's no where to go. I think to stay he wants to sign a short deal to give him options to go, but Mclaren are too savvy.
I wouldn't blame him for wanting out, Mclaren can't get their **** together to have any kind of consistency in a car. They are either playing catch up or making stupid errors when they should be nailing a lead down.
Soldato
I like Hamilton, but I'm far from a fan. On this occasion though, and this is by no means justification for what he did and how he performed, he had some personal problems. He spent most of the last 2 weeks in hospital with his aunt who subsequently passed away.
One can argue until the cows come home about whether or not things like this should affect an individual, but it is possible that it did. One could equally say the same about Jenson - he held his first triathlon tournament - he's pretty good at this - and failed to finish after having a panic attach on the outward swim.
At the end of the day all drivers are human, but some will be affected by their surrounding influences more than others.
Lol. So none of the top teams will touch Hamilton because of 1 fairly tame tweet? Really, people think that? 
And why would his management be trying to get RBR to sign him when there isn't a space?
Edit: JB didn't have a panic attack. He was wearing a wetsuit that was too small for him and had issues breathing.
And why would his management be trying to get RBR to sign him when there isn't a space?
Edit: JB didn't have a panic attack. He was wearing a wetsuit that was too small for him and had issues breathing.
