Italian Grand Prix 2011, Monza Circuit - Race 13/19

Joshy · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:46

MooMoo444 said:
They both had awful tyres, they pitted within a lap of each other ^^

But Button's tyres would have been the fresher set by far.

Psycho Ned · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:46

After all that the bloody director misses the pass!

AndrewD · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:46

Funny how the FIA are taking their sweet time to punish MS for the change in direction to defend...

MagicBoy · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:47

Joshy in Hamilton fanboi shocker.

dannyjo22 · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:47

Joshy said:
But Button's tyres would have been the fresher set by far.

Exactly he hung back from the dirty air.

arknor · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:48

AndrewD said:
Funny how the FIA are taking their sweet time to punish MS for the change in direction to defend...

how many times has hamilton been punished for dodgy moves? i remember his triple weave on petrov oh wait that one was okay because he was only trying to break the tow ....

Mike_P · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:48

dannyjo22 said:
Exactly he hung back from the dirty air.

yep, hammy's the faster driver but button's the smarter driver

Glaucus · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:49

dannyjo22 said:
Exactly he hung back from the dirty air.

Yep, once he saw it going south, he caught up in like half a lap.
Button in tactics shocker.
What I'm so surprised about is button, just seems to be getting better as a driver.
His qaulifying still isn't great, but it seems better than it was and he's doing well in pretty much every race as well.

Mike_P · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:49

arknor said:
how many times has hamilton been punished for dodgy moves? i remember his triple weave on petrov oh wait that one was okay because he was only trying to break the tow ....

he was, petrov followed hammys direction changes each time

Flibster · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:51

Genii sounds like a chavs farty bean tin exhaust coming out of the first chicane... Nasty nasty nasty.

MagicBoy · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:52

dannyjo22 said:
Exactly he hung back from the dirty air.

Gotta love the Hamilton fans watch Button using his loaf and assume it's cheating. It's not.

It's contrasting approaches for the McLaren drivers. Hamilton is more aggressive and gung-ho and revels in a wheel to wheel battle. Button is far more considered and thinks ahead. Rather a good driver combination I think.

Joshy · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:52

AcidHell2 said:
Yep, once he saw it going south, he caught up in like half a lap.
Button in tactics shocker.
What I'm so surprised about is button, just seems to be getting better as a driver.
His qaulifying still isn't great, but it seems better than it was and he's doing well in pretty much every race as well.

I personally don't see it.

He's a great driver, no doubt, but I'm not seeing him as this amazing WDC winning driver as he's billed to be ironically usually by the same people who knock Lewis.

Its like him being billed as some sort of rain master because he had one good race at Canada.

.:MBK:. · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:54

hehe director cant find anything going on it seems

MagicBoy · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:54

Joshy said:
Its like him being billed as some sort of rain master because he had one good race at Canada.

That's utter rubbish, and you know it. Go do some research.

Joshy · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:54

MagicBoy said:
Gotta love the Hamilton fans see Button using his loaf and assume it's cheating. It's not.

Who said it was cheating?

I'm merely saying that being slow behind a battle, catching up when things begin to get frisky and then getting a better drive off of a corner (almost certainly due to fresher tyres) to make a pass on a straight isn't the sign of an overtaking genius.

CaptainRAVE · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:55

Good start to the race, kind of boring now. Again Vettel gets all the luck

Can't be long til he has the championship.

Button has improved a lot and really does play the smart game.

Glaucus · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:55

Joshy said:
I personally don't see it.

He's a great driver, no doubt, but I'm not seeing him as this amazing WDC winning driver as he's billed to be ironically usually by the same people who knock Lewis.

Its like him being billed as some sort of rain master because he had one good race at Canada.

Haha, are you saying I knock Lewis.

Also one wet race, haha.

Skillmister · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:55

Button trying to pass on the way into the pits?!

MagicBoy · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:57

Joshy said:
Who said it was cheating?

I'm merely saying that being slow behind a battle, catching up when things begin to get frisky and then getting a better drive off of a corner (almost certainly due to fresher tyres) to make a pass on a straight isn't the sign of an overtaking genius.

Call it an unfair advantage or being sneaky then, whatever.

"Overtaking genius". Just LOL.

Glaucus · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:59

MagicBoy said:
Call it an unfair advantage or being sneaky then, whatever.

"Overtaking genius". Just LOL.

I and many others like to call it race/tactic genius. button and MSC are the masters of it. Fully aware of what's happening and can see it unfold in the future.