Soldato
Poll: Malaysian Grand Prix 2016, Kuala Lumpur - Race 16/21
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For me he's just completely unlikeable.. From the whole petulant hat throwing incident and complete inability to of hold his hands up when he's wrong. I disliked Vettel purely because he was winning but at least the guy actually does have some skill, race craft and a personality! Rosberg has none of those things... Just a very flattering car.
Hopefully he loses the championship and has a meltdown, now that would be more entertaining because i can guarantee Hamilton wont have any sort of meltdown in the slightest.
And hopefully next year will have the cars a lot closer. We could do with more smiling Australians on the podium to be honest and a WDC that isn't contested by a single team and their drivers.
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I know it's not looking good for Hamilton right now and the failure on Sunday has really shifted the balance in Rosberg's favour, but it's not over yet.
There's still five races to go, that's plenty of points to make up the gap. All he has to do is win all of the final races with Rosberg coming second and he's sorted.
He's overturned a bigger deficit already this season so I'm not writing him off just yet. We know he's good around Suzuka and Austin and we know he can win in Abu Dhabi.
There's still five races to go, that's plenty of points to make up the gap. All he has to do is win all of the final races with Rosberg coming second and he's sorted.
He's overturned a bigger deficit already this season so I'm not writing him off just yet. We know he's good around Suzuka and Austin and we know he can win in Abu Dhabi.
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I like Hamilton (the racer), but I can't see him winning all 5 races. Not with the start/clutch issue and a teammate that is in the zone.
As much as I hate to say it, and I don't wish harm on anyone, but he needs Rosberg to retire at least once because relying on him finishing 3rd or lower is unrealistic at this point.
As much as I hate to say it, and I don't wish harm on anyone, but he needs Rosberg to retire at least once because relying on him finishing 3rd or lower is unrealistic at this point.
Soldato
Yes he does. Over the season he'll use, as it stands, 3 more engines then Rosberg and most other drivers on the grid for that matter. There's no other way to see it.
Everybody has problems over the length of the season, that's just the way it is.
If it was the other way round would you honestly say the same?
Man of Honour
Lewis needs to nail qualifying. That's where the championship will be decided. If he can stay in clean air in the races it'll really help.
Though his engine did explode in clean air, so that doesn't say much..
Soldato
Well he was in clear air mate
Soldato
yea we would say the same and say unlucky Roseberg
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Yes, because Hamilton doesn't have 8 engines that he's gotten full use out of. 2 died in qualifying, with very little use, leaving him entirely screwed. He also hasn't used 8 full engines nor will he. You have to take a full new engine to get a 6th or 7th mgu-h/turbo, which is basically what they've been doing.
Can you honestly tell me if you open a new engine in the 5th race, and it breaks down in Q1 after 4 laps, then you put a new engine in so you're 1 up on your team mate, then you get one 'extra' engine for the end of the season. Have you gotten extra engines that gives you any advantage whatsoever? That new engine will have 4 laps less than your team mates.
Hamilton got screwed by his engines blowing up and dropping him way down the grid which caused a bigger points gain for Rosberg. Hamilton's advantage, is that, he uses 'new' engines with nearly identical life as Rosberg's have used.
There isn't a driver on the grid who would start 10 + places down the grid to have a one race fresher engine.
Soldato
Yes, I think most people would say the same. Though I can't help but think had the problems been reversed and Rosberg suffered so many failures that Hamilton would have already or, if not, be very close to wrapping up the WDC. I do think Rosberg has been driving quicker (though questionably whether better considering some of the incidents) than previous years but it is a testament to Hamilton that, even with all the engine problems, he is only 23 points behind.
I think it will be a shame if Rosberg wins the WDC as many people, included myself, will think he only won due to factors (most probably) outside of the control of Hamilton. As many have raised, it wont be the first time the better driver hasn't won the WDC for one reason or another. That is true but it doesn't make this time, or those times, any less disappointing.
Soldato
Yes I can. Rule is 5 engines for the season. It doesn't say anywhere they have to do minimum number of laps. He either got unlucky with faulty units or there's something about his driving that puts too much stress on it.
Man of Honour
Not really given the class of the merc compared to everything else on the grid because thats basically what you are saying.
1/2 the field at least just cant compete with the Merc in any way at all. So even when there is a full field (and usually there are several retirements well before the end of the race) Merc's really shouldnt have any trouble at all getting upto 8th at the very worst and more like 6th (Ferrari's and RedBull are really the only teams that Merc have to think outside the box ....slightly....to overtake on track) and even then its a track by track .
Being at the back of the grid for the opening corner could even be a benefit in regards to not being affected by the usual melee at the beginning of the race thats completely random but most likely to affect those right at the front - mid pack (admitedly stalls / failures on the grid itself will affect those further back, but surely less likely to).
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Soldato
But he has used the same sort of units/engines last 2 years....
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There is no doubt that driving the Merc does make it easier when starting down the grid or having to recover but what has that really got to do with it? You can balance out Hamilton starting at the back at Spa and lucking in to the SC and Rosberg being punted at this race and lucking in to it being a track with massive straights to easily move back up through the pack. Yet Hamilton has had numerous more problems over Rosberg yet is, all things considered, only a small number of points behind. So yes, I consider it a testament to Hamilton that in the 'normal' races he has quite comprehensively beaten Rosberg in identical machinery and thus keeping him in with a chance of the WDC.
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I don't doubt his ability to nail quali, but I seriously doubt his ability to get away clean. I just don't see him getting to T1 in P1 for each of the remaining races
Anyway... has anyone mentioned that this was JB's 300th GP?
Did anybody see the article covered by SkyF1 over the weekend in relation to a change in the front suspension of the Mercedes. Ted Kravitz presented this interesting piece, its a change to a damper system which has affected Lewis's driving style. Apparently the more bumpy the tracks or high kerbs the more his driving style is effected. Could this contribute to the reliability issues.
I don't doubt his ability to nail quali, but I seriously doubt his ability to get away clean. I just don't see him getting to T1 in P1 for each of the remaining races
Anyway... has anyone mentioned that this was JB's 300th GP?
What a milestone for Jenson in reaching 300 GPs. Now there is a guy that has seen some amount of changes in the crazy world of F1. I personally will miss the guy, he is a breath of fresh air compared to some of the cardboard cut outs. Hope he does some TV work in F1. He would be a natural.
Soldato
Just for the record he was following a car down the start and finish straight when his engine went - a McLaren I think - but in reality given how little he'd been stuck behind cars and how early on the straight it was, this won't have been a factor.