Belgian Grand Prix 2014, Spa-Francorchamps - Race 12/19

lol, and in his interviews he was doing the whole "you're trying to paint me as the bad guy because I'm german" crap.... yeah, nothing to do with intentionally hitting your team mate.
 
If I was Rosberg right now I'd be apologising. Saying I was hurt by the backlash on what was a driver error and so I lashed out and said stupid things. Or he will soon be losing points and races...
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Rosberg hasn't won anything yet but what if he does a Vettel and goes on to win the remaining races at a canter and ends up with a 100 point advantage over Hamilton? Would you still remember it as a tainted title for a few incidents mid season that ended up having no bearing on the title?
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Yes, not really for todays incident more the qualifying incident in Monaco. I used to be a big fan of Schumacher during his glory years but unfortunatelywhen you remember his career you always remember the incidents with Hill, Villeneuve and his qualifying incident in Monaco. This doesn't change the fact that he was a brilliant driver but you can't reflect on his career without the memory of his dishonesty.
 
The frustrating thing as a fan is that Rosberg clearly had the early pace to keep with and challenge Hamilton over the opening laps at least. If he'd waited until the next lap he might well have made it stick, if not wait until lap three and he'd have DRS. If he wanted to prove a point, that would have been a better way of doing it.
 
justbeats said:
No, he comes out with the same old 'intelligence' BS every race and means it.
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Dear lord.

Rosberg really has sunk himself, was silly to try and paint the bad guy thing saying that was just British media, now they are really going to bury him!
 
justbeats said:
No, he comes out with the same old 'intelligence' BS every race and means it.
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Yup, Rosberg wins because an unknown fault(not the choice of material it's now been proven) that Hamilton couldn't have possibly known about causes a brake failure and Rosberg gets more points.... intelligence, Rosberg cheats at Monaco, intelligence, Rosberg hits Hamilton on purpose, intelligence.

Everyone else, Rosberg gets spanked race after race... panics and cheats, gets away with it, Rosberg gets beaten by a guy who started in the pit lane again because of a failure that was completely not his fault... in the next race he gets beaten off the line, Rosberg panics, deliberately causes contact. Intelligence isn't responsible for his getting more points.

Hamilton having failures and Rosberg being so scared of losing in a fair fight again that he cheats is not a sign of intelligence but a driver who is going outside the rules to extremes to win because he knows Hamilton would beat him in a straight up fight.


Rosberg
“I have seen it and I don't want to say what it definitely is,” Rosberg said. “The stewards' judged it as a racing incident and that's the way that one can describe it.”

Referencing the meeting that the team had held, Rosberg would not reveal what was said internally.

“We had a discussion, as is important after such circumstances, because obviously what happened cost the team a lot of points. That is the main focus and the biggest issue with such a happening as today. So, yes, we have of course discussed. Unfortunately, I'm not going to go into any details, that wouldn't be the right thing to do. We need to review and discuss how we move forward.


“I don't want to go into such details, such as who apologised to who. Let's not go in to that.”
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opps, as it seems it's been confirmed that what Hamilton said was true, that Rosberg both didn't apologise, blamed hamilton while also admitting he did it on purpose. Outside of that meeting he's trying to make it sound like someone apologised and it wasn't him.
 
drunkenmaster said:
What, I've never seen team managers respond well to team mate collisions, ever, their responses were professional. They didn't call out Rosberg totally nor scold him, they said it was unacceptable, it was unacceptable. Pretending it didn't happen would have been unprofessional.

Rosberg is cheating when he gets put under pressure, he is acting irresponsibly and very unprofessionally.

Something people are forgetting is that if he meant to hit him, had the contact gone much worse it could have taken both cars out, and other cars ploughing in behind them without much warning, people could have been hurt. Intentionally causing contact on another car is an incredibly bad thing to do. It doesn't really matter how minor the contact is, or the outcome, the chance of a serious outcome from potentially causing a multi car crash is something you just do not do.


The FIA should whack him hard, but I'm not sure they will.
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Cheating, where on earth do you get that from, please explain your version of cheating? The Mercedes management need to refrain from making statements that only inflame the situation and deal with it professionally. Quite clearly they have demonstrated a unhealthy bias towards hamilton...
 
what the heck is going on? i've just read the news about Rosberg apparantly crashing on purpose? WHAT!
 
Skeeter said:
No team will ever ban their own driver for that. Suggesting they should, or suggesting the FIA should get involved and ban him for dangerous driving is also just wishful thinking.
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If Rosberg collided on purpose it doesn't matter what the team want, the FIA will get involved off their own backs.
 
http://www.espn.co.uk/belgium/motorsport/story/172425.html

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff insists the accident between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg at the Belgian Grand Prix was not deliberate, but that Rosberg was trying to make a point by not backing out.
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That reads slightly different to how it's being reported. Not giving a title rival room is something most world champions have probably done at some point or another. Stupid move on Rosberg's behalf because it was never going to work at that turn, and he could still get in to trouble with the FIA, but if you don't stand your ground you'll always be expected to give way.
 
smr said:
what the heck is going on? i've just read the news about Rosberg apparantly crashing on purpose? WHAT!
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The more I read the less I think he did it on purpose, and the more I think he's just saying he did to try and wind Lewis up. Rosberg knows that the way to beat Lewis is to mess with his head.

It's backfired though. Rosberg wanted to appear hard and theatening, but has just made himself look like a fool.
 
Skeeter said:
The more I read the less I think he did it on purpose, and the more I think he's just saying he did to try and wind Lewis up. Rosberg knows that the way to beat Lewis is to mess with his head.

It's backfired though. Rosberg wanted to appear hard and theatening, but has just made himself look like a fool.
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Agreed, Hamilton is mentally fragile to the point I can't remember an F1 champion so mentally weak. He has clearly targeted this because lets be frank it's the only place Rosberg has a chance. Yet he has done it in the most epically stupid way and made himself the *****.

Far better to apologise to Hamilton publicly and give him a wink after the briefing. That would have got under his skin far more.
 
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