Yeah it must have been a mistake in the points totalling that allowed Rubens to still be in with a shout of the championship until the near death. His failure to perform on saturdays is what stopped him wrapping the title up earlier and also allowed Vettel to come back at him.
Are you seriously suggesting that getting outqualified by Rubens 9 times out of the last 10 races didn't allow rubens and vettel to come back at him. It hurt him badly and this was a car Rubens managed pole at Brazil and sometimes Rubens was multiple places ahead of him on the grid.
GB 2nd to JB's 6th
SPA 4 to JBs 14th
Singapore 5th to JBs 12th
Brazil Pole to JB's 14th
Hungary is the only track from the last 10 Jenson outqualified Rubens. Yes his race pace was mostly almost as good but you are giving yourself too hard a job against the better drivers with the standard of his qualifying.
The races are where the points count not qualifying - JB slughtered Rubens on Sunday for majority of the year in performance terms
The only reason Vettel came into it was because there was no development on the Brawn because of lackof $$$
Anyway this is pretty irrelevant consdering JB's times compared to LH in quali - although more quali's thoughout the year wll indicate how well he is doing (or not ) in this respect.
If any driver gets massively outqualified by a team mate, but matches/ beats them in the race - given when the points are handed out I know which I would prefer to be every single time. Its impossible to tell if car had been set up differently to improve quali, how much better/worse it would have done the next day, so the ratio has to be taken as a whole .
Dannyjo and Frank, have either of you read Buttons book about the 2009 season? It gives a good insight into just how badly he felt he was performing as the year went on. He did a good job in the press of trying to convince everyone he was calm, but the book shows that he spent most Saturday night's for the second half of the season trying to piece back together any sort of chance for points. He's very honest about how his lack of qualifying performance nearly cost him the title.
While some of it was down to performing badly - it was also due to lack of finance /developement in the team. Due to his charachter , of course he is going to say this (probably more so because it turned out ok in the end), nothing he could do at all about the team finances so that was completely out of his hands.
Without knowing every detail - its impossible to know what he gave up in quali to do better in the race (because by this stage in the season, a number of cars had caught up in race pace, so he couldnt do a Vettel and manage from the front without the outright pace being there as it had been for races 1 - 7)
I think you are confusing being a whistle blower with being the guy committing the crime.
If the head of a company is given the choice of cooperating with the authorities by coming forward, or letting someone lower down the chain raise the alarm, they will likely go for option a. Rons choice was to admit the truth, or be exposed as a liar.
This is very different to me phoning the council and telling them my company is breaking some rules, its like the head of my company telling the council they have found out they are breaking the rules and want to work with then towards getting them resolved. The boss coming forward is the lesser of 2 evils. Had Ron not come forward and instead one of the lower down employees plonked a pile of incriminating evidence on Max's desk, I doubt McLaren would even still be in F1.
Reminds me of all the huge financial crimes that have hit the press in the last few years. One of the Nick Leeson style ones knew he was doing wrong , so shopped himself (and the company) and got a lesser jail sentence ...... - however good a broker they are, the size of the money that brought the companies down , MUST have gone through the board /or directors etc
