Poll: Malaysian Grand Prix 2016, Kuala Lumpur - Race 16/21

[ebilcake]

Really do have to wonder, as Hamilton certainly does seem to be the fastest Mercedes driver across the Mercedes teams. If his engines are the only ones giving way, is there something in his driving style which is overstressing components without being clear on telemetry.

Although he might have felt yesterday was terrible in luck terms, it wasn't as bad as it could have been, if Vettel had not swiped Rosberg, then Hamilton would still have blown up, and Rosberg would have taken all the points.

I still fully expect Hamilton to win the championship. Five races is plenty for him.

His reliability was mostly fine for the two previous years and his style has not changed, so it's not that.

When you take into account he's already taken a penalty for new engines and now only has two remaining for five races it's pretty bad,

He may have to miss out practice seasons to make them last and that's a lot of valuable data drivers need during the race and qualifying.

 

[jonneymendoza]

I think the real question here is why is it only Hamilton who breaks the engines.
Other 7 drivers manage just fine.

he drives to fast lol

 

[Glaucus]

Probably more to do with how many times he's been in hot turbulent air for varouise reasons.
And proabbaly higher engine modes to try and claw back.
I Bet the difference in number of laps whilst following a car at less than like a 2 second gap is rather large between ros and lh.

 

[Mark365]

Scored the race a 5 out of 10. Much more of an exciting event this time. I thought Nico's recovery drive from last to third was absolutely incredible. I thought his penalty for the Kimi incident was very unfair. What is it with this bloody sport in relation to passing, are you only permitted to pass someone in a corner when they make a mistake? Its RACING sometimes you have to take a risk and yes sometimes there is contact but for goodness sake don't hand out penalties for passing. Lewis's race was destroyed by strategy pressure from Red Bull. He was asking too much from his car to build up a pit stop gap from Ricciardo with fresh tyres. He pushed the engine too hard. Another good race for McLaren, they are on the move and is magic to see. Great to see Palmer finish in the points in a terrible car. Nico has a good lead and deserves it, he has been the better driver this year and deserves to win the championship but hey, its not over yet. Reliability and starts will decide this championship.

 

[Spuj]

Nico has a good lead and deserves it, he has been the better driver this year and deserves to win the championship

Are you trying to give multiple posters in these threads an aneurysm?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

The bile and bitterness on this forum when Rosberg get's the upper hand is the only entertaining thing in F1 these days. Then you have the woe is me it's all over. Even after only 3 or 4 races. It's like watching a 6 year old strop.

I don't like Rosberg, but Hamilton fans are just in another league.

Hamilton haters are just as bad tbh and rosberg sympathisers are worse than both put together.

 

[Destination]

I liked Vettel's interview during the race.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Software could easily be programmed to recognise that a race was in progress,

My understanding was a lot of the engine power unit "software" is blacked box by the FIA.

Such things has bugs which as affected Vettel and the Lotus's last year and even in this race Masa (I think) had a start up issue leading to him having to start in the pits down to a software issue.

 

[this_is_gav]

Scored the race a 5 out of 10. Much more of an exciting event this time. I thought Nico's recovery drive from last to third was absolutely incredible. I thought his penalty for the Kimi incident was very unfair. What is it with this bloody sport in relation to passing, are you only permitted to pass someone in a corner when they make a mistake?

This is something that stuck with me, as Brundle is normally all over these saying that it's racing and if you're over picky on someone making a fairly minor mistake when attempting a pass then you'll have no passing at all.

I thought it was very interesting that he never said anything of the sort this time. Coulthard on C4 was much more open in saying what Brundle normally says and he was a bit disappointed that the incident warranted such a penalty.

I mean it was a touch forceful but others have got away with similar and I thought 10 seconds was way over the top. If you were going to penalise him at all then simply asking him to drop behind Kimi might have been more appropriate.

I have to say it wasn't overly surprising when the driver steward, Derek Warwick, said on the grid that he wanted Hamilton to win!

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Again if that bothers you F1 isn't the sport for you. I will use my favourite drivers over the years so not to look like hating others.

Mansell won the title because fortunately for him Senna was in a pile of cack.
Jacques won the title because MS's ferrari wasn't anywhere near as good at the start of the year.
Button won the title because his team mate was **** and Alonso, Hamilton and any number of other drivers were in poor cars.
Hamilton won the title because Alonso cannot make good career calls.
Vettel won the title because Webber wasn't allowed too and Alonso had to put up with much worse reliability.

How often does the considered best win in the best car? Drivers win and lose titles all the time due to reliability, the driver is the smallest part of the laptime. Only ever do you get this bleating about how unfair it all is when it's hamilton.

He's winning titles again because his team mate is crap and frankly there are no challengers. Yes it's not going all his way but does he not have enough advantages already? Every year his fans write him off and every year you are proved wrong. It was all over earlier in the year with about 15 to run according to his fans on here. The whole nature of F1 isn't fair. Nothing in it has ever been equal.

Hammy lost out to 1 point in 2007 in his first season (kimi) and still beat his team mate (Alonso) both veteran world champions by that stage. In 2007 and 2008 the McLaren was having a hard time next to the Ferrari's.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Nico has a good lead and deserves it, he has been the better driver this year and deserves to win the championship but hey, its not over yet. Reliability and starts will decide this championship.

How has he deserved it? Please dive into how he has deserved it? Driven better then Hamilton? in what way?

 

[Steedie]

Nico has a good lead and deserves it, he has been the better driver this year and deserves to win the championship but hey, its not over yet. Reliability and starts will decide this championship.

 

[Vertigo]

Just about had it with F1.

It's already way over-regulated and complex but now it seems we're going to get a WDC decided by reliability and engine use penalties which is just ridiculous. Penalise the teams in the constructor's championship all you like but the driver's suffering to this extent for things totally outside their control is farcical.

 

[Vertigo]

Nico has a good lead and deserves it, he has been the better driver this year and deserves to win the championship but hey, its not over yet. Reliability and starts will decide this championship.

Oh get back in your box. Lewis has had three engine failures which have then been componded by the need to start from the back at Spa because of engine usage limits. Rosberg's had none of this.

This championship will be decided by engine failures and ensuing penalties.

 

[bayo000]

How has he deserved it? Please dive into how he has deserved it? Driven better then Hamilton? in what way?

He has 23 more points. What more do you need to know? Doesn't make as many silly mistakes as Hamilton, just look at Hamilton in Baku. And lets not forget that Hamilton got lucky few times as well.

I'm not a fan of either of them but I do feel Rosberg deserves more credit than a lot of you give him and I'd rather him winning this year.

 

[Mark365]

This is something that stuck with me, as Brundle is normally all over these saying that it's racing and if you're over picky on someone making a fairly minor mistake when attempting a pass then you'll have no passing at all.

I thought it was very interesting that he never said anything of the sort this time. Coulthard on C4 was much more open in saying what Brundle normally says and he was a bit disappointed that the incident warranted such a penalty.

I mean it was a touch forceful but others have got away with similar and I thought 10 seconds was way over the top. If you were going to penalise him at all then simply asking him to drop behind Kimi might have been more appropriate.

I have to say it wasn't overly surprising when the driver steward, Derek Warwick, said on the grid that he wanted Hamilton to win!

Totally agree 100% I too was surprised at Brundle, usually he is a racing man. Well done to DC for promoting good hard racing.

 

[El_Watcher]

Just about had it with F1.

It's already way over-regulated and complex but now it seems we're going to get a WDC decided by reliability

You do realise a large percentage of the championships ever, up until the late 90s, were decided in part by reliability.
I have seen people moaning about how reliable cars have become, and now people are complaining that they are too unreliable

 

[CaptainRAVE]

He has 23 more points. What more do you need to know? Doesn't make as many silly mistakes as Hamilton, just look at Hamilton in Baku. And lets not forget that Hamilton got lucky few times as well.

I'm not a fan of either of them but I do feel Rosberg deserves more credit than a lot of you give him and I'd rather him winning this year.

23 points through a more reliable car does not equal a better driver.

I would laugh if Hamilton still won this.

 

[Mark365]

How has he deserved it? Please dive into how he has deserved it? Driven better then Hamilton? in what way?

This season so far Nico has won more races than Lewis.
This season so far Nico has scored more points than Lewis.
This season so far Nico has achieved the above with less engines than Lewis.

So far this season Nico has been brilliant. Its not his fault if Lewis is having reliability issues left,right and centre. Nico can only drive his own car and in doing so, is doing the better job.

 

[Vertigo]

This season so far Nico has won more races than Lewis.

Lewis suffered engine failures in two of the events Nico won

This season so far Nico has scored more points than Lewis.

Only because of Lewis' engine failures, without them he'd be behind.

This season so far Nico has achieved the above with less engines than Lewis.

So engine reliability makes him a better driver?

I can't decide if you're just trolling or if you actually believe this rubbish you're spouting