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Hopefully Mclaren will be stronger at Canada, long straights and medium speed corners should suit MP4-29 more.
Monaco Grand Prix 2014, Monte Carlo - Race 6/19
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Funny... Did Button give Barichello any time of day when he was gunning him down relentlessly race after race for the title ? No.
Considering what a nice guy Rubens is, how long he'd been in F1 for (20 odd years of driving an F1 car) you'd have thought if you're going to see any driver feel compassion for another driver it'd be "Mr Nice Guy Jenson Button" thinking.. well hang on a minute, Rubens is a nice guy, maybe I'll just let him win a title seeing as he's gonna retire soon...
Did Button do that? No. He got everyone in Brawn on his side, he got all the strategists working for HIM, not Rubens, I remember Rubens going into meltdown mode after one racing saying he didn't wanna talk to anyone and "just get on a plane and go home to Brazil"...
Button did not care. He clearly galvanized everyone around him and made sure that he was Numbero Uno De Facto 1 in the team. End of! So you can bloody well add his name to that list of yours eh!
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I disagree, if he wanted to be 'clever' perhaps he would have been smarter to have left such antics to a later more important, perhaps championship deciding race. All he has done is shown people that he's prepared to bend the rules. He certainly won't be getting away with anything like it again and there's a long way to go.
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He didn't do anything wrong, and even IF he did, even Hamilton fans would say if there was a race he needed to win it would be this, so if he *did* do it on purpose then that's a good thing; he's ruthless. Time to get the popcorn out etc.
If Rosberg had have let Hammy win 5 on the bounce it'd have done Rosberg no good, as it is Nico's won and Hamilton's lost his head after just one weekend.
If Rosberg wins Canada it'll destroy Lewis. :|
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He hardly 'owned' him, lol.
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Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff insists there was nothing suspicious about Nico Rosberg's wild steering movements on the entry to Mirabeau during the controversial end to Monaco Grand Prix qualifying.
Rosberg was investigated after securing pole position to see if he had deliberately run off the track to bring out the yellow flags.
Although the race stewards ruled that he had done nothing wrong, questions were raised about his actions - and especially the strange steering inputs before he locked up and went down the escape road.
Felipe Massa was one driver who questioned how the incident looked from the on-board footage.
"The steering was a bit strange, but what can you do?" he explained.
"He made a mistake, but you cannot say he did it on purpose or not. He will say no forever."
Wolff has revealed that the team's telemetry data shows that Rosberg was simply trying to keep control of his car after braking too late for the corner.
"The car was unsettled," Wolff told AUTOSPORT after Rosberg was cleared of any wrong doing.
"We see it on the data that he was braking a bit later [into Mirabeau]. They both braked later in Turn 3 [Massenet) already, both the exact same amount of metres.
"They both braked later on each of the runs and this is what it was. It was just an unsettled car because he was braking later."
Rosberg was investigated after securing pole position to see if he had deliberately run off the track to bring out the yellow flags.
Although the race stewards ruled that he had done nothing wrong, questions were raised about his actions - and especially the strange steering inputs before he locked up and went down the escape road.
Felipe Massa was one driver who questioned how the incident looked from the on-board footage.
"The steering was a bit strange, but what can you do?" he explained.
"He made a mistake, but you cannot say he did it on purpose or not. He will say no forever."
Wolff has revealed that the team's telemetry data shows that Rosberg was simply trying to keep control of his car after braking too late for the corner.
"The car was unsettled," Wolff told AUTOSPORT after Rosberg was cleared of any wrong doing.
"We see it on the data that he was braking a bit later [into Mirabeau]. They both braked later in Turn 3 [Massenet) already, both the exact same amount of metres.
"They both braked later on each of the runs and this is what it was. It was just an unsettled car because he was braking later."
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Quite easy to answer that...
If he did do it on purpose it's good for the neutrals and spectators.
But as I've said, I'm hypothesising, as I don't believe he did it on purpose (see his bosses' quote above)... and also see 3 hours of FIA delegation on the matter with intense scrutineering.
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I was actually referring to the fact that you first said he was a gentleman, a sportsman, you the followed up with how it was ok if he did it on purpose. How is as good as cheating being a gentleman and a sportsman?
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Didn't do what on purpose? Go off in the first place? Or make sure the yellows stayed out as long as possible by reversing down the run-off?
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Nicole will dump him again now he's not won a race so that'll mess him up even more, then she'll come crawling back when he wins and he'll be all happy-smiley til Rosberg beats him.. repeat until bored.
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Looking forward to Lewis destroy Nico in the rest of the season.
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He's not a child any more - he's nearly 30!
He wasn't a child when he came into F1 either, but the McLaren PR department were in overdrive to protect and guide him. For the most part it worked brilliantly until Melbourne 2009.
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Lewis will win in Canada. He's a bit of a specialist there. He has to forget this and move on and beat his team mate like he has done for the previous 4 races.
Game on.
Game on.
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I thought of this briefly earlier as well. Yeah yeah Lewis has been a Debbie Downer since the end of Q3 yesterday, but the facts are his first Q3 lap was only 0.059 seconds off Rosberg's and in the race today, despite his cry-baby attitude, was glued to Rosberg's gearbox until he magically got something in his eye (probably a lash or something). He fended off Riciardo in the dying moments of the race (ok, Monaco) and drove extremely well.