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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2008 23:14:35 GMT
Wow, that was the most excited I've got over a F1 race in many years. Cracking season and fantastic to see Hamilton rightfully taking the title even though it seemed everything was conspired against him thoughout the year. Ghengis is right (on this occasion), whatever you think of Hamilton, he has injected some much needed interest and drama into F1 racing the past couple of years, and long may that continue.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2008 10:15:34 GMT
Who knows, but he did have the dry tyres on so he had a reason to slow He was fine up until the last lap - on the pace and 15 seconds ahead. Will there be an investigation? If there was an investigation. Then maybe we should look at Vettel's determination to get past Hamilton for an extra point in a dead rubber. But don't Red Bull have Ferrari engines. Or maybe Kubica causing chaos by not acceoting that he had been overtaken and decided to keep with Vettel and Hamilton. Thus causing driving mistakes galore.
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Post by schumi on Nov 3, 2008 10:35:12 GMT
You can't condemn Vettel for racing. He's had a taste of victory this year, and he's showing a lot of promise for the future. Plus, claiming Hamilton's scalp is a big pride boost, not to mention the sponsorship generated by the extra coverage. If anything should be looked at it should be the unsafe releases in the pit-lane. I saw two, but Button's was the most dangerous.
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Post by Genghis on Nov 3, 2008 12:12:55 GMT
Or maybe Kubica causing chaos by not acceoting that he had been overtaken and decided to keep with Vettel and Hamilton. Thus causing driving mistakes galore. Kubica was perfectly entitled to unlap himself. However, he did force Lewis off the racing line, Lewis went wide and Vettel got through as a result. Kubica shouldn't have interferred with the race result by unlapping himself, but he did. It was completely untentional, though, and Hamilton would do exactly the same if the positions were reversed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2008 12:21:46 GMT
Anyways, it's over. My brother declared that he should become Hamilton's partner. He reckoned they'd ram everyone off the track and then share wins and 2nd to have the first ever equal F1 world champions (I don't think it's possible is it with there being an odd number of GPs).
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Post by admin on Nov 3, 2008 16:20:22 GMT
As always, McLaren stayed calm and knew that Hamilton would catch and pass Glock, so they let Kubica and Vettel have their little moment and concentrated on the bigger picture. Better to let them through nice and easy and then get after Glock.
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Post by Genghis on Nov 3, 2008 16:59:52 GMT
As always, McLaren stayed calm and knew that Hamilton would catch and pass Glock, so they let Kubica and Vettel have their little moment and concentrated on the bigger picture. Better to let them through nice and easy and then get after Glock. But it was only the fact that the rain got harder on the final lap that left Glock with no grip. McLaren very nearly screwed up by putting Hamilton on too conservative a strategy, and only a gift from the heavens in the final two mintues of the race saved them from having massive egg on their face.
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Post by marron on Nov 3, 2008 19:00:19 GMT
Brilliant from Hamilton yesterday and throughout the whole season.
Authorities seemed to try their best to hand the title to Ferrari but Hamilton deservedly came through to win it.
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Post by Genghis on Nov 4, 2008 21:14:17 GMT
Fair play to the Ferrari boss: www.planetf1.com/story/0,18954,3213_4453365,00.html With Ron Dennis set to step sideways at McLaren, and Mosley not standing for re-election in a year's time, hopefully the political horseplay of the last couple of years will all but disappear, and the racing can again be at the forefront, as indeed it was on Sunday.
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Post by admin on Nov 4, 2008 21:47:14 GMT
Can Ron Dennis "step sideways" at McLaren? Anyway, Formula 1 without Ron Dennis is unimaginable and can't be contemplated - he has to stay.
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Post by Genghis on Nov 5, 2008 12:34:04 GMT
Can Ron Dennis "step sideways" at McLaren? Anyway, Formula 1 without Ron Dennis is unimaginable and can't be contemplated - he has to stay. McLaren are being deliberately vague at the moment, but the general gist seems to be that Ron Dennis will still be up on the pit wall.
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Post by admin on Nov 5, 2008 15:56:20 GMT
Still, young Dennis appears to be getting soft in his old age after promising Lewis Hamilton the McLaren F1 LM on display at the team's headquarters in Woking, Surrey, if Hamilton wins three world championships: www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/motorsport/article1887651.eceNot like Dennis to give anything away, especially not one of his precious displays. McLaren claim ownership of every trophy won in a McLaren car, even a driver's trophy and Dennis famously had a huge row with Alain Prost after the Frenchman gave McLaren's constructors championship for 1989 to the Italian crowd. It is understood that Prost had to have a replica made to appease a still furious Dennis several years later.
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Post by Genghis on Nov 5, 2008 18:00:47 GMT
Not like Dennis to give anything away, especially not one of his precious displays. McLaren claim ownership of every trophy won in a McLaren car, even a driver's trophy and Dennis famously had a huge row with Alain Prost after the Frenchman gave McLaren's constructors championship for 1989 to the Italian crowd. It is understood that Prost had to have a replica made to appease a still furious Dennis several years later. I think it was the trophy for winning the 1989 Italian GP that Prost gave to the the crowd. If Lewis wins three championships in a McLaren, that'll be worth millions to the team, and well worth giving away one poxy car for.
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