Japanese Grand Prix 2012, Suzuka - Race 15/20

I don't care about off the circuit personalities/lifestyle choices and any celebrity twitter faux pas. Hamilton is like the Cristiano Ronaldo of motorsport it doesn't matter how dedicated he is throughout the week and how great his performances are during the race. People use their personalities as an excuse to chip away at them and if they react badly to anything it's blown out of all proportions.

Messi and Button just play the media game better and props to them.
 
Others don't tweet telemetry data.
How can you ignore things like that.
How can you ignore his personality, which means all he's interested in is driving fast and not looking at stratagy and the bigger picture.
 
Duke said:
Lewis sure loves twitter and the celeb style of being a **** when using it. Liking him less each day :(
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He tweets less than Webber, Button and Alonso and probably many more. In fact was he even on Twitter until this season ? I know it was after 1 race weekend this year when he suddenly became more active and tweeting.

If it was another driver nothing would be said. But its going be a massive ******** story now in the media because its Lewis.
 
Glaucus said:
Others don't tweet telemetry data.
How can you ignore things like that.
How can you ignore his personality, which means all he's interested in is driving fast and not looking at stratagy and the bigger picture.
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Yes that's the one error I can agree with, sheer stupidity on his part but I just lurk on here and some of the comments are over the top.

I'm just saying in general who cares what he's up-to in his personal time. When he's obliged to be focused on his racing I'm sure he's as dedicated as anyone (my Ronaldo reference)

I'm not an F1 expert so I don't know if he's not focusing on the right setups or whatever else or if he's lacking in knowledge. I just watch Practice/Qualifying and the Race and then anything else that happens is of no interest to me, specifically non Racing news.
 
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The thing is, Nismo mentioned this unfollow rumour in the 'Hamilton to Mercedes' thread on the day he signed for Merc.

Why did it take Lewis over a week to 'notice' and how could he not know if his team mate was following him or not?

I think it's a bit of a non-story really, especially as he said it wasn't going to affect him and then apologised after realising his mistake.

***Move along, nothing to see here***
 
Panzerbjorn said:
***Move along, nothing to see here***
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But this if F1. You know that Sky will have a half an hour piece on this in the Korea build up, interviewing Whitmarsh and Button and asking how it will affect his 'mentality' and if they are going to deliberately slow him down to stop him taking the number 1 away. Then Lewis will look grumpy and sad all weekend, and when he's on the podium he will not smile enough and then people will be all over the internet and twitter complaining about how he could at least look happy with winning, etc etc etc.

Meanwhile, RBR will sneak in another new upgrade that will go completely un-noticed :rolleyes:

F1 on the internet, serious business :D.
 
i know! poor hamilton ! i would hate to have chances he has had in life and the backing from mclaren since i was 8 years old!

how horrible he must feel after they betrayed him !
 
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Skeeter said:
So who told Lewis that JB had stopped following him, then?
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I believe it started last week when a reporter was obviously looking through who Jenson followed on Twitter and then asked him why he had stopped following Lewis. Jenson then replied that he had never followed him, but it would make a good story.

Cut to last night and I'm not quite so sure how Lewis got wind of it, whether a reporter told him, whether one of his followers did, or whether he just saw a story somewhere. However he found out, he clearly missed Jenson's original response to the reporter.

If you actually look at who Jenson follows, its mostly Triathletes and Cyclists and a few other F1 drivers and personnel. In all honesty, Lewis hasn't been on twitter that long and his few tweets are often quite boring, I think him and Jenson get on, but I don't think they share too many common interests outside F1, so not sure Jenson was really that interested in hearing what Lewis gets up to.


As for comments about 'slow news day'... this isn't headline news, its sports news for Formula 1. Given that Lewis has only just left his team and its the biggest hot topic in the paddock, further to that he wasn't willing to talk about it in the press conference, you can see from that how the F1 media want to find out as much as they can. A bit of a scandal so soon allows them to have something to talk about, rightly or wrongly about the relationship between the two drivers, how things are going at McLaren and Lewis' general level of maturity and his Twitter blunders.
 
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Lewis is such a ****ing child.

This is awesome :D

Alan van der Merwe
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Wearing my new socks today. Bernd hasn't commented on them yet - thought we were teammates. Still gonna do my best tho.

Alan van der Merwe
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My bad, turns out I wore a similar pair last week. Can't blame him for not noticing! I should be more adventurous with sock purchases!
 
Just had my email arrive for the F1 Racing Championship Tracker. They ask their subscribers who they think will win the WDC. Its been Alonso on top all season so far (they started at about round 4), I wonder if he will still be there in the next issue.
 
drunkenmaster said:
So Jenson does something incredibly childish and petty... and Lewis is the insufferable one.

I can't stand Button, every race more and more, every single time he sucks this year, "my balance, my balance", my something, he complains constantly, then clearly to make himself look good whenever he's doing well he suddenly finds a vibration to complain about, does a fastest lap but its going into neutral... its not even slightly believable. When he's 100 points off the front he's still fighting for the title, 1 or 2 races later Hamilton ends up 50 points behind and he's straight in the press claiming they are BOTH out of the title, basically sticks the knife in whenever he can. People say he's slimy, and thats why.

Jenson complains on the radio and after races more than anyone else, but he puts across this, to many seemingly very fake nice guy front, and people ignore it. Lewis complains much less, and gets much more grief for it.
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Woah there! I think if there's any driver who couldn't be described as slimy in any way, shape or form - it's JB. Maybe what could be construed as constant complaining from a TV vierwer's point of view could be seen as excellent and constant feedback on the behaviour of the car from the point of view of his race engineers?

I don't like Hamilton, not a fan of Alonso, LOVE Kimi, Vettel I can't stand except that awesome interview a few years ago talking to the bbc guys a hot woman comes and stands next to him "do you know her?" " no, but I will soon", awesome.
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Sutil wasn't it? But agreed - great comment. Second only to Kimi's "I was having a......" comment in Brazil '06ish!
 
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