Rosberg is good, there's no doubt about it, but overal it's clear Hamilton is better. I think Rosberg is at the point where a voice in his head is telling him this but he doesn't want to be believe it. It's probably exacerbated by the fact that the Mercedes is so much better than any other team right now - there must be little worse for an F1 driver than to find yourself in the front-running team with a huge margin over your rivals, only to then realise that your teammate is faster than you and will probably deny you the championship.
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Rosberg is good, there's no doubt about it, but overal it's clear Hamilton is better. I think Rosberg is at the point where a voice in his head is telling him this but he doesn't want to be believe it. It's probably exacerbated by the fact that the Mercedes is so much better than any other team right now - there must be little worse for an F1 driver than to find yourself in the front-running team with a huge margin over your rivals, only to then realise that your teammate is faster than you and will probably deny you the championship.
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Yep, it may be that vettel was always just suited to the clinical, tire management, rail Road traction style driving, and that alone. This now must be his biggest test if his career, to come back and challenge. Impossible when merc are just so good, but if he can't come back at slick Ric even, well then that's just disappointing on his behalf.
Here comes another Jenson interview in which they try to find a polite way of saying "Hey Jenson, another crap result for McLaren then, when do you think a team with such enormous resources is going to pull their finger out of their backside and actually produce a competitive car?"
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Ha no!
I have just devoured a sausage and egg sarnie, and am now about to crack open some chocolate
Touring cars start in a bit...
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In fairness they finally got rid of Whitmarsh which is a step in the right direction for sure, but it's going to be a season or two before any big changes actually have any effect.
IN reality Ron now needs to do what Brawn spent the last 4 years at Merc doing, rebuilding the team with better people in key roles so they can build a great car.
The people they have in place aren't doing the job required. Now it could be that Whitmarsh wasn't getting the best out of them, or making the wrong decisions and only the guy in charge needed to be changed to push them all in the right direction but I suspect they need bigger sweeping changes and a combination of new guy in charge and some new better people in other key roles is required.
IN reality Ron now needs to do what Brawn spent the last 4 years at Merc doing, rebuilding the team with better people in key roles so they can build a great car.
The people they have in place aren't doing the job required. Now it could be that Whitmarsh wasn't getting the best out of them, or making the wrong decisions and only the guy in charge needed to be changed to push them all in the right direction but I suspect they need bigger sweeping changes and a combination of new guy in charge and some new better people in other key roles is required.
Which channel.
Why isn't there any hill climbing on. That's what I feel like watching. Or a decent film. But sky box is saying theres no telephone cable attached
rebooting hasn't worked.
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I think it will be Jensons last year with Mclaren, Ron was never much of a fan he was whitmarsh's choice. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Japanese driver at Mclaren next year
Don't you think it will be his last year in F1? I do.
I think it will be Jensons last year with Mclaren, Ron was never much of a fan he was whitmarsh's choice. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Japanese driver at Mclaren next year
Ron prob wants ham back
Have to say I'm getting fed up with antagonistic interviewers whenever they're discussing any contact. The bump with Alonso & Massa at the start was just a racing incident - everyone is jostling for position and neither of them saw the other car in time.
The way the interviewers are always trying to create controversy by asking the "so from your perspective, did he move over on you" type questions? It's pathetic.
The way the interviewers are always trying to create controversy by asking the "so from your perspective, did he move over on you" type questions? It's pathetic.
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Ron prob wants ham back
Wasn't the issue with Ron. The news at the time was he got on with whitmarsh but no longer Ron. Mclaren are 3 years away from even thinking of having Hamilton back. As said above they need a complete over haul and only a Honda 20bhp up in the rest could save them a few years of pain.
I will be glad when Button's gone from there, then I can go back to not caring about the sterile souless grey team. I'd much rather see Williams back winning than Mclaren.
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Hamilton grabbing the bottle off his trainer then spraying him with champagne was funny. The team in general seems happy, obviously a winning team is happy but the attitude of the team. Toto is actually funny and speaks well, is positive and there seems to be a happy, everyone working together, everyone enjoys working there vibe and Hamilton has that written all over his face as well.
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BBC aren't even live so not surprised they are behind.
Still miss the good old days of BBC F1 with Jake, Brundle and Ted working for them. Sky isn't quite the same (though Ted is utilised much better on there) and the current BBC crew is like the Tesco Value version of their old team!!
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The on-board cams aren't HD Ted
Minor technical details, he's all over the place today!
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Bah, big mistake from Williams in the pitstop then, they got the wrong rear tyres so were trying to put a right rear on the left, but because of the direction the wheel nut wouldn't do up so they got all confused and had no idea what was going on. So not down to any damage it seems like, just a monumental screw up after a fantastic start from Massa, such a shame 
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Huge blunder getting the wrong wheel ready.
No matter how much money and tech you've got it only takes one small error to completely trash your day
Maybe the mechanic had been on the martini a bit to early
No matter how much money and tech you've got it only takes one small error to completely trash your day
Maybe the mechanic had been on the martini a bit to early
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Bah, big mistake from Williams in the pitstop then, they got the wrong rear tyres so were trying to put a right rear on the left, but because of the direction the wheel nut wouldn't do up so they got all confused and had no idea what was going on. So not down to any damage it seems like, just a monumental screw up after a fantastic start from Massa, such a shame
What a balls up.
