Poll 2011 Canadian Grand Prix Chump of the Weekend

[fat jez]

Hamilton, no contest. That's two races in a row where he's tried to push his way through gaps that are no way wide enough. His move to pass Button was reckless on the grounds that Button was ahead and was following the racing line (the same line that Schumacher had just taken), so Hamilton should have expected him to move over to the left ready for the next corner. Add that to the poor visibility and you have a driver that is making desperate moves to overtake instead of making calculated ones.

 

[Road of Bones]

Lewis - for having an entourage of celebrity chums & failing to deliver.

 

[Sarinaide]

Lewis - for having an entourage of celebrity chums & failing to deliver.

Well Martin Brundle did say he was lucky as Rihanna got to sit in his cockpit.........

 

[RevMaxPower]

Lewis of course - for basically not driving very well.

It does help if you manage to avoid contact with the other cars on the road. Any driving instructor would tell you that...

 

[Sarinaide]

Lewis of course - for basically not driving very well.

It does help if you manage to avoid contact with the other cars on the road. Any driving instructor would tell you that...

I got my licence from Carmageddon and Demolition Derby, they tells me that is nonsense.

 

[KekeTheKing]

When your name is Lewis Hamilton, this kind maneuver will earn you the cruelest of all titles: "Chump of the Weekend"

Hopefully this will put to bed the nonsense that there wasn't a gap. There was. It got closed. Tough break.

 

[Brogan]

Thank you Keke.

That really does make a lot of the comments posted since Sunday seem rather silly and harsh (to put it mildly).

 

[KekeTheKing]

Lewis actually did quite well to save his teammates race. He got out of it just in time to make the actual car to car contact extremely minimal. He put his own car into the wall to try and avoid the inevitable contact when Button started to move over, and I think Jenson realizes this, partially explaining the gracious nature in which they have both handled this incident.

 

[Hamberg]

Thank you Keke.

That really does make a lot of the comments posted since Sunday seem rather silly and harsh (to put it mildly).

I also thought the Stewards report explained it beautifully but I guess people haven't or have chosen not to read it.

 

[Andyoak]

Absolutely agree...
Jenson, Lewis and the Stewards all agree and have handled it with clarity and grace.
Let's hope it doesn't stop them racing hard when against each other in the future because it usually turns out fine (and we all love to see it).

 

[F1Yorkshire]

After seeing that footage it does show a gap when Hamilton starts the overtake, the gap does vanish quite quickly and he should have backed off unless he was expecting Button to give him the room but in those conditions you can't rely on the leading driver to know what you're thinking!

 

[EvilWhippet]

So are we just ignoring the footage of Button looking at his mirror?

Afterall, it is Jenson...

 

[Hamberg]

So are we just ignoring the footage of Button looking at his mirror?

Afterall, it is Jenson...

No no evil, Jenson thought it was his own car he could see (not sure why he's got his wing mirror angled at his own rear wing, check DRS is working??)

 

[EvilWhippet]

Maybe just basking in his own reflection?

 

[Hamberg]

Surely only Nick has the face for that

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

No no evil, Jenson thought it was his own car he could see

Or so he says, anyway.

 

[fat jez]

It's fairly well known that rear view mirrors on F1 cars are next to useless and you can't see much in them at all. I doubt Jenson had time to take much more than a quick glance in his mirrors and if he saw Lewis at all, he'd be looking at exactly the same colours as found on his own car - e.g. red and silver, so it would probably be quite easy for him to think he had caught sight of a bit of his own car.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Except that he would have known full well that Lewis was behind him, having only recently got past due to Schumacher's baulking of Lewis at the hairpin and having then made a poor exit from the chicane, and knowing from the first overtake just how much quicker Lewis was than himself.

 

[Hamberg]

it would probably be quite easy for him to think he had caught sight of a bit of his own car.

It would have been sensible to think it was his team mates car though given he was right behind him and Jenson had lost time coming out of the last corner.

 

[Il_leone]

clearly some deluded fools here in voting the race winner chump of the weekend