Head To Head Jenson Button vs Lewis Hamilton

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2001, the Button/Hamilton odyssey!

I'll get me coat...

 

[Hamberg]

At least now we know whoever gets more points this season is better than the other so come final race or mathematical possibility this discussion is over right!

 

[The Pits]

Hamberg

If only that were true. This is a debate that will never die.

 

[Hamberg]

If only there were some special people with special powers that could close the thread

 

[Brogan]

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/jenson-button-vs-lewis-hamilton.4734/page-100#post-158769

To reiterate, we don't routinely close threads, eventually they just drift down the pile when no-one is interested in posting on them any longer.

 

[Hamberg]

That seat at McLaren was closed when Perez came in and therefore it was a tongue in cheek comment using hard fact to prove a point. Three seasons, this one is the decider, case closed.

 

[Brogan]

The two threads are different.
People may still want to comment on the Hamilton-Button partnership in the future, for whatever reason.

 

[Hamberg]

Like I said, it wasn't a serious comment hence the winky

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Is there any need to kill it? The worst thing about this thread is people coming on here to simply to post that they don't like the thread. If those that don't want to engage in the discussion don't then the thread will be a lot tidier and a lot less frustrating for those that do want to have proper discussion.

[EDIT] ...and people like me coming on and complaining about people complaining.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Didn't people compare Hamilton and Button even before Jenson joined Mclaren? So why should they stop now that the two are in different teams again?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Interesting stat. Points scored by Hamilton since Bahrain 2010 - 609. Points scored by Button since Bahrain 2010 - 603. Over 2 and 3/4 years, they're only 6 points apart from each other

I still find it amazing that in a race, drivers do about 300km over two hours and finish within seconds of each other. As much as I understand racing, it still blows my mind.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

I see that Button needs a new gearbox for Japan, with a 5 place grid penalty, after Mclaren discovered post-Singapore that his 'box had an identical problem to the one that prematurely ended Lewis' race.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103002

Does this put to bed the arguments that
a) Hamilton is not the unluckiest driver this season and
b) he may have contributed to his own demise at Singapore by clipping the wall in Q3?

 

[Bill Boddy]

No.
No.

Nothing will put those two arguments to bed.

 

[The Artist.....]

It did just tickle me that some people were lambasting McLaren because "if Hamilton hadn't had that final lap, he wouldn't have had the gearbox failure....."

 

[Hamberg]

Don't forget Button is being favoured as he was given the privelage of only losing five places and an opportunity to make these back and score points. Hamilton was sent out with a dodgy gearbox forcing him to retire even though they knew!

 

[MCLS]

Well McLaren didn't know how long it would last, it was a win or bust approach, it might have held on to the end of the race, in the end it didn't.

 

[Hamberg]

MCLS yeah I know, just demonstrating that anything can and will be turned into one or t'other being a victim depending on who you prefer which is largely what this thread turns into!

I personally don't care, shit happens.

 

[The Artist.....]

MCLS... McLaren didn't even know that there was a problem!!! (Let alone that there was a question of how long it will last!)

 

[ExtremeNinja]

"We did everything we could yesterday, Lewis" implies that they did know.

 

[The Pits]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102824