Current Lewis Hamilton

A place to put all the posts from all the other threads primarily but love him or hate him, and even for the indifferent amongst us this is the place to discuss the marmite that is Lewis Hamilton, to learn a thing or two about his rise, talk about those controversial, genius or mad moments and something that i am bemused by, the recent articles that suggest something quite different to my perception of what's going on. Any experiences of meeting LH?

Brundle had to write a Lewis Hamilton article recently and in my tweets (which were probably ignored) I asked him to talk about LH the driver not LH the personality. It seems that you can't have one without the other.

So as a starter for ten, here is a fairly recent LH article. Posts should not be limited to this link but it can get some discussion going. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13755883.stm

The only banned topic as it is clearly ridiculous involves these four things "Glock" "2008" "Brazil" "conspiracy"

 

[Speshal]

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

Not quite has bad as Alesi trying to drive his bright yellow Jordan into the very blue Prost pit garage at the end of 01

 

[Slyboogy]

Alesi drove for Jordan?

 

[Brogan]

Hamilton should have said "Who's laughing now?" as he drove through

 

[Jos the Boss]

They should have lifted him up on the jack and then dropped him again, waste a bit of time!

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

Alesi drove for Jordan?

Replaced Frentzen (technically Zonta i think after he came in at late notice after Frentzen and EJ had a bust up) who went the other way (Prost) for the last few races of 2001

 

[FB]

Good race for Lewis, justified the move away from McLaren. Wonder if he can squeeze a win this year?

 

[Jos the Boss]

I think he might have with enough fuel, he was second at one stage

 

[The Pits]

Not sure he would have been as close with more fuel.

I do think that he will win a race this season, they are looking good for it.

 

[Il_leone]

good race by Lewis today and I think in China he could feature strongly

although how was it there was not enough fuel in the car then or did Mercedes went full power for too long?

his friendship with Nico is going to be tested no doubt after today's race

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As for driving into the wrong pit box we don;t have to ridicule Jenson any more as some people were on here a while back now

 

[teabagyokel]

Il_leone - At least Hamilton ever drove for McLaren...

 

[RickD]

Good to see Lewis have the No 1 position at Mercedes, guess this "I want equality" crap can be buried now. Nico was obviously faster and had more fuel in the tank as the team never asked him to save fuel until later.

 

[cider_and_toast]

I don't think it's a case of if Hamilton will win this season but more a case of when.

As far as equality goes, I don't think it changes a thing. Until the situations are reversed and it's Rosberg who has spent the bulk of the race ahead of the two and doesn't get the same support then you can't really judge. Lets not forget that Rosberg had a free and fair fight with Hamilton and couldn't make it stick. As Brawn said, he wanted both cars home and a 3 / 4 finish is a strong result.

 

[Lewywo4]

Hamilton should have said "Who's laughing now?" as he drove through

 

[Lewywo4]

Il_leone - At least Hamilton ever drove for McLaren...

Good point...

 

[Brogan]

Hamilton has flatly denied the claims made be Ecclestone.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/106375

Who'd have thought it? Ecclestone making comments deliberately designed to provoke reaction and cause scandal...

 

[Vortex]

Hamilton also says in that interview joining Mercedes was the best decision he ever made. Ever?? Only the second race in for them and he looked a right miserable git yesterday. I think its way too early to call it his best decision just yet, but time will tell.

I’m sure if a RedBull contract was offered he would have jumped on it, and who would have blamed him.

 

[KekeTheKing]

It was rather refreshing to me yesterday that Hamilton was not forced to suffer from a team miscalculation. McLaren might have called him in for a Splash n Go only to realize their refueling rig has been missing for several years.

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

It was rather refreshing to me yesterday that Hamilton was not forced to suffer from a team miscalculation. McLaren might have called him in for a Splash n Go only to realize their refueling rig has been missing for several years.

 

[MCLS]

Hamilton also says in that interview joining Mercedes was the best decision he ever made. Ever?? Only the second race in for them and he looked a right miserable git yesterday. I think its way too early to call it his best decision just yet, but time will tell.
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Depends on how well Mercedes can develop the car, Rosberg took early podiums in 2010 and won early on in 2012 but as the season went on they fell further down the grid, if they can maintain the early pace this time then they will be challengers