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Funniest thing was the British commentators before the race claiming Ferrari should think about the championship. LOL Hamilton won 1 race in two years. That win was with the help of a safety car.
But now he is going to win the championship. LOL
He cant even out qualify his teammate.
Then his teammate has a much better start than him, but Hamilton decides to divebomb his own teammate in a chicane that everyone know only one car at a time can go through.
Then the genius complain he was pushed off. LOL he should have experience of going through that corner with another car.

Alonso was right
 
Gramps66 said:
Lots of cellphone subscribers on the African continent :giggle:
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I doubt that is the reason.

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Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
George is a Karen complaining about everything. This started long before this year. Very few fans like him. He dug his own grave. Just think about all his drama radio messages the last few years, complaining about other drivers and trying to get them penalties.

Oh and Kimi started at the back and caught and passed George long before he got the cheap pit stop.
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They all complain. Singling one driver out when every single one of them bitches is silly.

I know Kimi caught him. That does not change anything I said about George's race. He was perfect on both starts and didn't make any mistakes. When on evenly matched tyres they were yo-yoing, so Kimi couldn't get away from him either. Kimi is the one that actually made a mistake by taking a trip through the gravel. You cannot fault George's race.

There is also no arguing that Kimi benefitted from that free pit stop. It was pretty obvious that George was screwed when Kimi got fresh tyres. As stated, not a single driver in George's position would have held Kimi off. Not Lando, not Max, not Lewis. And we saw this, as he passed them all easily, so George's only hope was for ''faster'' drivers to hold Kimi up and neither of them could. They were all sitting ducks and it isn't an indictment of their abilities as drivers.

Everything else I said about how Merc has handled him this year is accurate as well. His car has been plagued by technical issues, specifically around deployment, and every time George brought it up Toto chucked him under the bus, until they finally said ''Yes, something is wrong and we need to fix it''. Listen to the pre-start radio communication at Spa. George done everything his engineer told him to do and even confirmed full deployment. After turn 1 he was down 30-40% on deployment and was completely screwed before he even made it to the Kemmel Straight. He didn't even blame Lewis for the collision, pointing out that if his car hadn't been a lame duck he would not have been in that position. And what was the first thing Toto said? George must drive better. It is obvious that Merc settled on their priority driver long ago
 
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They all complain. Singling one driver out when every single one of them bitches is silly.

I know Kimi caught him. That does not change anything I said about George's race. George was perfect on both starts and didn't make any mistakes.

There is also no arguing that Kimi benefitted from that free pit stop. It was pretty obvious that George was screwed when Kimi got fresh tyres. As stated, not a single driver in George's position would have held Kimi off. Not Lando, not Max, not Lewis. They would have all been sitting ducks and it would not be an indictment of their abilities as drivers.

Everything else I said about how Merc has handled him this year is accurate as well. His car has been plagued by technical issues, specifically around deployment, and every time George brought it up Toto chucked him under the bus, until they finally said ''Yes, something is wrong and we need to fix it''. Listen to the pre-start radio communication at Spa. George done everything his engineer told him to do and even confirmed full deployment. After turn 1 he was down 30-40% on deployment and was completely screwed before he even made it to the Kemmel Straight. He didn't even blame Lewis for the collision, pointing out that if his car hadn't been a lame duck he would not have been in that position. And what was the first thing Toto said? George must drive better. It is obvious that Merc settled on their priority driver long ago
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Can't help but think that the red flag also helped Kimi. We'll never know if he would have had the pace to catch George had the race run uninterrupted for 53 laps and Kimi had had to fight his way through the field for all of them. With degradation between the mediums and hard being negligible, he was able to get off those hards early doors and onto the faster medium which allowed him to slice through the field faster.
 
thestaggy said:
They all complain. Singling one driver out when every single one of them bitches is silly.

I know Kimi caught him. That does not change anything I said about George's race. He was perfect on both starts and didn't make any mistakes. When on evenly matched tyres they were yo-yoing, so Kimi couldn't get away from him either. Kimi is the one that actually made a mistake by taking a trip through the gravel. You cannot fault George's race.

There is also no arguing that Kimi benefitted from that free pit stop. It was pretty obvious that George was screwed when Kimi got fresh tyres. As stated, not a single driver in George's position would have held Kimi off. Not Lando, not Max, not Lewis. And we saw this, as he passed them all easily, so George's only hope was for ''faster'' drivers to hold Kimi up and neither of them could. They were all sitting ducks and it isn't an indictment of their abilities as drivers.

Everything else I said about how Merc has handled him this year is accurate as well. His car has been plagued by technical issues, specifically around deployment, and every time George brought it up Toto chucked him under the bus, until they finally said ''Yes, something is wrong and we need to fix it''. Listen to the pre-start radio communication at Spa. George done everything his engineer told him to do and even confirmed full deployment. After turn 1 he was down 30-40% on deployment and was completely screwed before he even made it to the Kemmel Straight. He didn't even blame Lewis for the collision, pointing out that if his car hadn't been a lame duck he would not have been in that position. And what was the first thing Toto said? George must drive better. It is obvious that Merc settled on their priority driver long ago
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Firstly to say Kimi made a mistake through the gravel is a bit far fetched. He hit that part of the corner that many drivers reported the road surface breaking up. Yes he maybe did not need to go for it on that corner, but going of into the gravel was not entirely his fault.
And I think you mistakenly think people booed George because of something he did in this race. Like I have said it has build up over the years. You can see it in races he has won but people mostly don't vote him as driver of the day.
His "suggesting" that his car is being sabotaged and thats why Kimi is beating him, is probably one of the main reasons the Italian crowd booed him.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Firstly to say Kimi made a mistake through the gravel is a bit far fetched. He hit that part of the corner that many drivers reported the road surface breaking up. Yes he maybe did not need to go for it on that corner, but going of into the gravel was not entirely his fault.
And I think you mistakenly think people booed George because of something he did in this race. Like I have said it has build up over the years. You can see it in races he has won but people mostly don't vote him as driver of the day.
His "suggesting" that his car is being sabotaged and thats why Kimi is beating him, is probably one of the main reasons the Italian crowd booed him.
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The Tifosi often boo anyone who isn't Italian or driving for Ferrari.

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The Darkness said:
Yes, this should be his move. Antonelli is set to be the next Senna and will always be overshadowing him. The mindgame this will become his downfall. Even yesterday, you could see it was becoming dangerous.
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Very keen to see how Kimi's career unfolds - Senna? Perhaps. The rookies are an interesting bunch that might deliver given a decent seat. Some great years ahead I hope. Russell basically needs to decide if he wants to race in a Mercedes or not. I'm guessing Antonelli will be the long play and the next driver will be another rookie.
 
Craig_ said:
Fred needs to sort out that fckng frog.
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Charles has had his moments but I've always thought he was one of the more respectful of space than other F1 drivers. Ferrari's pit wall needs to be improved to the extent that they can give an order and both drivers don't question it. If you're called in, you're called in. If the strategy is crap then debate it after and make sure it doesn't happen again.
 
I want to see Max and Kimi in equal cars battling on track. So far they haven't shared the same piece of the racetrack in equal machinery a lot.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Firstly to say Kimi made a mistake through the gravel is a bit far fetched. He hit that part of the corner that many drivers reported the road surface breaking up. Yes he maybe did not need to go for it on that corner, but going of into the gravel was not entirely his fault.
And I think you mistakenly think people booed George because of something he did in this race. Like I have said it has build up over the years. You can see it in races he has won but people mostly don't vote him as driver of the day.
His "suggesting" that his car is being sabotaged and thats why Kimi is beating him, is probably one of the main reasons the Italian crowd booed him.
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I mean, in the absence of contact or technical issues, running off track is a driver error. Whether you hit the marbles or crumbling surface, putting your car out there is a mistake.

I don't recall George claiming sabotage. He had however been reporting persistent technical issues from the start of the season, and voiced frustration and confusion at it not being addressed and how he kept being plagued by them while Kimi was not.

The response to this from Merc, and primarily Toto, was to question his ability as a driver and obviously this would not have sat well with him. Merc finally acknowledging an issue would have been an ''I told you'' moment and would have validated his feeling of unequal treatment from the team.

His interview prior to the Hungarian GP sums things up.

"The whole team is standing by me and vice versa," he added. "I felt quite vocal about this issue pre-Spa and during Spa and ultimately we have achieved what we wanted to in the sense of finding there was an issue."
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EDIT: Anyway. The deficit is probably too great now and Kimi should have this.
 
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Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Funniest thing was the British commentators before the race claiming Ferrari should think about the championship. LOL Hamilton won 1 race in two years. That win was with the help of a safety car.
But now he is going to win the championship. LOL
He cant even out qualify his teammate.
Then his teammate has a much better start than him, but Hamilton decides to divebomb his own teammate in a chicane that everyone know only one car at a time can go through.
Then the genius complain he was pushed off. LOL he should have experience of going through that corner with another car.

Alonso was right
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If you plant your car in the middle of the track and leave space to your right while heading down to Rettifilo, another car is going to fill that space and try and outbrake you whether it's your team mate or not. No space on the exit was on Charles, even if the entry was borderline and alongside.

As for the funniest thing it's simply math - if there's a greater chance you back the greater chance and you make damn sure that if one car is fighting another team for position you ensure your own car behind waits for that fight to complete before racing each other again.
 
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