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KK was faster than JB?
Lets pick a time when Jenson admitted he had shot his tyres to bit eh Cook..Yup, around the time JB was 16th and KK was 11, my impression was that KK was putting in lower lap times, but to be fair, almost everyone ahead of Button was faster as he was unable to move through the field in a McLaren, definetely Di Resta, Hulk, Vergne, Senna were all lapsing faster around that time
I was under the impression that Kobi was slowly moving backwards during the race hence my surprise at Perez's overall pace as the 2 have never been that far apart.
Whitmarsh doing his usual...witless, waffling piffle......whiffle
IMHO......He needs JB to be number one to satisfy his ego? Jenson...........
When JB went to McLaren...he said he wanted to be the first British double consecutive WDC winning for two different teams, this would be a first...who gives a
Another was winning in Australia? last year...he wanted three in a row,........... JB tussled with Massa.... MW argued that when he went on the escape route to avoid Massa, JB was in the right!!! If he had given the place back immediately etc. Meanwhile Vettel went completely off the track to complete an overtake.......if instead...they had tried to get Seb a drive thru, LH could have done better in the race. CHorner wouldn't have missed that one.
Japan....Jessica became Japanese....she had been half Japanese until that day. Button wanted to win ....Japan had suffered a major tragedy..........he had a Japanese girlfriend...............In Q3..Lewis was left unable to get his last fast lap, left in the chicane whilst Button.took a 9 second gap to the car in front. Why were Macca not giving LH info re MW & Schumi approaching him?
These are just a few of the times I have observed that JB has been helped & LH has been hindered.
Lewis usualy takes each race for what it is...apologies to those who call him & just wants to concentrate on the next race....
He has to be aware of what is happening... you have to trust your team........and it needs sorting.
Glad to entertain you............Good read, for many reasons
Good points raised there F1ang, Japanese GP, would have definitely been possible that JB with his Jap links and gf, and MW with his business hat on preferring a JB win, especially when you consider the disaster that befell Japan a d the importance of Japan to an engineering firm.Glad to entertain you............
I can remember Jos Verstappen in the Minardi (?) running 2nd in the rain in Malaysia while he was nowhere in practice. That was an even bigger change in performance.I've just never seen such a massive swing in car performaces before as we saw between the Sauber and the Mclaren on the Sunday.
I've read some of the posts and it's obvious a lot of people are angry as to why McLaren pitted Lewis so late. I am exactly the same. They made lots of errors throughout the race but leaving him out so long when slicks were 5 seconds a lap faster is just unforgivable. In those kind of situations the teams just needs to order the driver to come in. Lewis may not be as good at making calls than Jenson but he isn't stupid and if everyone else is going 5 seconds quicker and he got told that clearly then he'd come in!
What I don't understand is this thing of "we were playing it safe in-case it rained" because even if it did rain then those intermediates were practically slicks anyway by that point and so he'd of had to pit either way.
It is very frustrating that I have looked through all the BBC and Sky coverage and I haven't seen anyone make a big deal about this yet a huge amount of fans can see this was a massive blunder. I really just want a proper explanation from someone in the team as to what the hell they were thinking and why Jenson gets ordered to come in 2 laps before yet Lewis is just left out.
Sigh.
I've read some of the posts and it's obvious a lot of people are angry as to why McLaren pitted Lewis so late. I am exactly the same. They made lots of errors throughout the race but leaving him out so long when slicks were 5 seconds a lap faster is just unforgivable. In those kind of situations the teams just needs to order the driver to come in. Lewis may not be as good at making calls than Jenson but he isn't stupid and if everyone else is going 5 seconds quicker and he got told that clearly then he'd come in!
What I don't understand is this thing of "we were playing it safe in-case it rained" because even if it did rain then those intermediates were practically slicks anyway by that point and so he'd of had to pit either way.
It is very frustrating that I have looked through all the BBC and Sky coverage and I haven't seen anyone make a big deal about this yet a huge amount of fans can see this was a massive blunder. I really just want a proper explanation from someone in the team as to what the hell they were thinking and why Jenson gets ordered to come in 2 laps before yet Lewis is just left out.
Sigh.
Martin Brundle said:It could have been even more thrilling if Perez had won the race, everyone loves an underdog, although ironically even Alonso at the moment could be considered that. It made absolutely no sense that Perez wasn't pitted for slicks on lap 40 with Alonso. Daniel Ricciardo in the Toro Rosso had long demonstrated that they were the tyre of choice and delaying by one lap cost Perez over five seconds. Even if it rained, which was predicted as possible at the time, his heavily worn intermediates would have been of little use anyway.
Even had Lewis stopped a couple of laps earlier for slicks, it would have made NO DIFFERENCE!!! He still would've come third! Almost all of the teams were playing it too safe - it was clear to see that it was dry enough for slicks about 2 laps before anyone went onto them - yet still they were playing it safe on the inters! There is NO CONSPIRACY. Move along, there's nothing to see here!
If Perez lost 5 seconds on his lap and Lewis lost 10 repectively, then pitting Lewis at the right time would have gained him 15 seconds on Perez, putting him in front and 10 seconds on Alonso putting him on his gearbox. Given that Lewis was quicker than Alonso in the final stint we have to say that this was a potentially very costly call from McLaren.
Prior to the stops, LH was 14 seconds behind Alonso.
After the stops, LH was 18.9 seconds behind Alonso.
He lost a total of 4.9 seconds to Alonso during the stops.
Hindsight is a WONDERFUL thing. It still doesn't change the fact that he would, at best, have been 14 seconds behind Alonso if they had stopped on the same lap!
I didn't suggest anything.Brogan suggested that Lewis lost 10 seconds due to that pitstop. I'm going to have to check for myself.
I didn't suggest anything.
I posted the lap chart and showed that Hamilton lost almost 10 seconds compared to Button.