Can I do my rain dance yet?
Can and does.I'm a fan of Sepang as well. Forecast shows showers for the weekend... If memory serves me right, this is the circuit that can have very heavy downpours with little notice?
Er Lewis chose McLaren? He told Ron Dennis, "I'm going to drive one of your F1 cars", or words to that effect. Ron quite liked the confidence the young Lewis displayed.LH is a superb talent but real real shame he has to drive for an obsessively regimented team like Mclaren. The day he moves to another team Ill be his biggest fan
Amen. We are force-fed Lewis Hamilton mania at times. ITV's coverage last year was really quite bad. And if you say you don't like him, oh you're racist then.Nothing to do with racism at all. Jenson and DC both were upfront about it. They did it purely for the money but stayed for the lifestyle. Hamilton came out with all the bull about it being for privacy reasons etc and blaming the media.
They were bound to go after him after that. Someone poorly adviced him.
For the record I dislike all forms or tax dodging once you have been educated by this country you should pay to this country regardless of success. That's another debate.
I dislike the whole manufactured nature of lewis hamilton not that he's brown.
For the record I dislike all forms or tax dodging once you have been educated by this country you should pay to this country regardless of success.
Amen. We are force-fed Lewis Hamilton mania at times.
Of course. He is a fantastic talent and driver. I just don't want to be reminded of that fact, exaggerated by the media and his disciples, every time I watch F1 on the TV. Sometimes last year ITV-F1 made it seem that Lewis was the only driver on the grid. So why did he only win the title in the last race?To be fair, he is a pretty spectacular talent. I'll never even try and argue against that. But he isn't The Great And Glorious Messiah™ that certain elements of the British media and the rather more idiotic members of his fanclub have argued him to be.
No. I wish people would let him be Lewis Hamilton I and not Ayrton Senna II. All the greats of F1 are very different to each other and Lewis can potentially be there but calling him Ayrton Senna II won't help him.He's not Ayrton Senna. He's not Michael Schumacher. He's certainly not Juan Manuel Fangio, or Alberto Ascari, or Sir Stirling Moss, or countless other talents* over the years. He's Lewis Hamilton, and if the hooting dicks would just leave well alone then he'll become a universally loved star.
I used to hate Michael Schumacher in the early days. He was just too good but at least then there wasn't the media adulation that we've got now with Lewis. The British press were never going to be a fan of a German F1 driver like they are with Lewis.But.....he's just such an awesome driver I can't help but admire him. I want to like Hamilton, but I just can't get away from the fact that a) he does some particularly retarded things sometimes and b) the media coverage has turned me off to the point that I'm getting close to happy that the '09 McLaren isn't very good.
Are they? Got a link? This is getting silly now.Can the FIA make their minds up already? They are going to re-investigate Hamilton/Trulli now, despite Toyota not even appealing.
Are they? Got a link? This is getting silly now.
Cheers. Is it me or does anyone else find it weird that the ITV-F1 site is still going? I expected it to be shelved sometime in the off-season or at least before the new 2009 BBC broadcast season.
Cheers. Is it me or does anyone else find it weird that the ITV-F1 site is still going? I expected it to be shelved sometime in the off-season or at least before the new 2009 BBC broadcast season.
but imho the only thing that sets him apart from Schumacher, Senna, Prost etc. is TIME!
Yup. Weird. The BBC Sport site has been around for a while so they should have a decent network for getting news fast. But the ex-broadcaster still on top.They get F1 news faster, and more of it than BBC F1 site
Yup. Weird. The BBC Sport site has been around for a while so they should have a decent network for getting news fast. But the ex-broadcaster still on top.
Are they? Got a link? This is getting silly now.