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  1. Sorry Prawn, but if this doesn't sound like trolling then I don't know.

    turns out it was the engine used in Silverstone, remember him doing doughnuts at the end and worrying if he damaged the engine?? I think the team had a quiet word in his ear to save those celebrations until the titles won but that may have came back to haunt him.

    But nice to see this:

    https://twitter.com/lxznr/status/493012786147237888

    And Lewis' reaction:

    https://twitter.com/LewisHamilton/status/493027833552596992

    Nice to see him still fighting, because I have given up my hopes. It's 2012 all over again.



  2. Liam12d said:

    Rosberg to retire. We need the points gap to become more or less even going into the summer break to keep the excitement/hype going for at least a solid month. 

    And you do realise that if Rosberg retires and Hamilton wins Hamilton will have a bigger lead than Rosberg currently has.  

    Errrm, no. Just no.

    Currently it's Rosberg 14 pts ahead

    With your scenario, HAM would be 11 pts ahead.

    Simple maths ftw. ;)

    Sorry , I didn't check the table. I had it in my head that Rosberg was 11 points ahead and that would mean Hamilton would be 14 points ahead. (The other way around). But if you're so fixated on closing up the points , then wouldn't it make more sense for Rosberg to come second and Hamilton to win ? So 4 points of a difference. Simple maths ftw .  ;)

    I wasn't fixated on closing up the points. I just corrected your claim about the gap. Which I have to do again, because if Rosberg finishes 2nd and Lewis finishes 1st, the gap will be 7 points, not 4 points.

    Simple maths ftw x2. ;)


  3. Liam12d said:

    Heres what I say. 

    Vettel deserved 2010 with all the retirements.

    He deserved 2011, although I'd say Button possibly could have deserved it more in some regards as he came a clear second in a inferior car. 

    Alonso deserved 2012. No one can possibly disagree with this. 

    Vettel deserved 2013, besides being in a better car for half the season. 

    The End. 

    Disagree with 2010. He made some really stupid mistakes and was lucky with Ferrari screwing up in AD.

    He deserved the 2011 and 2013 championship, not the 2010 and 2012 one. Just my opinion.


  4. fIsince08 said:

    If Hamilton ever wins the Hungarian Grand Prix again, he will become the sing most successful driver at the circuit.

    Everytime Lewis has won the Hungarian GP, Kimi finished in 2nd. I can't see Kimi finishing 2nd even if 20 out of the 22 cars will fail to finish, so no Hammy-win this time around. :(


    You heard it here first.


  5. Liam12d said:

    Rosberg to retire. We need the points gap to become more or less even going into the summer break to keep the excitement/hype going for at least a solid month. 

    And you do realise that if Rosberg retires and Hamilton wins Hamilton will have a bigger lead than Rosberg currently has.  

    Errrm, no. Just no.

    Currently it's Rosberg 14 pts ahead

    With your scenario, HAM would be 11 pts ahead.

    Simple maths ftw. ;)


  6. fIsince08 said:
    @GoldenColt‌ I always thought Hulkenberg had a really nice personality... Jolly, always chats, never miserable after bad results and has a big cheesy grin when he does well :p 

    That's exactly what I mean.

    Nice, never miserable, grinning --> boooooooring.

    I want that evil Alonso-smile after he or his team screwed up his teammate. I want someone like Hamilton to say how fricking ridiculous the other drivers are. I want someone like Kimi not giving a damn about anything. I want someone like Vettel calling other drivers cucumber.
    I want to be entertained! ;)


  7. Vettel really is having a rubbish season when you consider that he has had the same amount of pole positions and race wins as I have.

    But I really can't wait for the next 5 years of Formula 1. I know I said it in another thread somewhere previously, but I honestly think that we are now starting to see the true next generation of great F1 drivers. 

    At the moment you would have to say it is probably Vettel, Hamilton, Alonso, Rosberg, Raikkonen, Button

    In the next five years I can easily see Ricciardo, Bottas, Hulkenberg, Perez, Magnussen, Kvyat and maybe Bianchi joining them and fighting at the top end for race wins and championships.

    I agree but I have one problem with the drivers you've mentioned as the future stars of F1: They have zero personality and are boring as hell. Ok, Ricciardo somehow doesn't fit into this category completely, although I haven't noticed anything special with him personality-wise (apart from that smile and the impression he has 80teeth every time he does it).

    Bottas - good driver (although hyped up imo) but boring as hell

    Hülkenberg - see above

    Perez - see above

    Magnussen - see above

    Kvyat - see above

    Bianchi - see above

    I think we will all miss the likes of Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel. Those drivers are so incredibly loved and disliked at the same time, creating some excitement off the track, sometimes making us angry, sometimes making us laugh, but certainly making the sport more interesting. Alonso with his backstabbing politics, Hamilton with his Hollywood-glamour, Vettel with his .... well it's Vettel you know. There's always something to talk about and I just can't see the guys you've mentioned fill in their shoes. Neither on track but most certainly not off track.

    The new generation of drivers is too politically correct. They give answers which don't hurt anyone with a smile which won't hurt anyone. Maybe they will grow out of it as they get older and more self-confident, but for now, I'm really glad we have the likes of Alonso, Hamilton and Vettel on the grid.


  8. Damnit. Such a difficult name to remember. 

    Kvyat is fast, he has impressed me so far. I'm not a friend of this "new xyz"-thing, so I don't know if he is the new Hamilton. You'd have to put him into a WDC-winning car against a multiple WDC to see if he can cope with the sort of pressure at the top, where the air is always thinner.

    Vergne to Lotus is a possibility, haven't thought about that. I like your idea!



  9. The question remains: How good is Ricciardo really?

    Do we know he's "the real deal", just because he's beating Vettel? All we know is that Daniel struggled against Vergne, who - I'm pretty sure about that - won't be in F1 anymore from next season on. 

    So it could be a case of Vettel having a really poor season performance-wise (even when counting out the DNF's and points lost due to bad luck). Why would he suddenly drop so much? New cars? Then it's a sign of him being weak in adapting to a new formula. Drivers like Hamilton, Alonso, Rosberg, Hülkenberg and so on all don't seem to have lost their pace because of the rule changes.

    Is it because of the trickier cars due to the ban of the EBD, beam wing and all these devices to increase rear downforce to a level where you can just floor it out of slow corner? Then it's a sign of his incredible pace being limited to a certain characteristic which is not likely to come back anytime soon. 

    Once again, drivers like Hamilton, Alonso, Rosberg and Hülkenberg (just to name a few) don't seem to struggle with that at all and I remember McLaren having a pretty advanced EBD at the end of 2011 aswell.

    No matter how you look at it, this season has been a desaster so far for Vettel. It doesn't take a genius to work out that his reputation has taken a beating and all those who doubted the legitimacy of his massive success the last couple of years are now being confirmed in their thoughts. 

    Furthermore, saying that Vettel doesn't care about beating his teammate once he's out of the running for the WDC is nonsense imo. For every driver out there, beating his own teammate is the #1 priority, even more so for the reigning 4x WDC who has re-written the history-books in the last 4 seasons. Taking Schumacher as an example for this theory is nonsense aswell, because, well, Michael never got beaten by a teammate in his first career. Of course, 91, 97 and 99 don't count because he either didn't participate in as many races as his teammate, or he was disqualified from the CS-standings or he broke his leg and had to miss out on 6 races and gifted a certain win to his teammate so he could have a chance to win the WDC. 

    I'd go as far as to say that Vettel will be more gutted about losing to Ricciardo at the end of the season (if he does lose out) than losing out on winning the WDC in 2009.

    Meanwhile, I'm still looking for the perfect Hamilton-avatar for Seb's profile, just in case the unthinkable actually happens.


  10. ^^ What he said. 

    Apart from that, it's not as if Vettel was the only RB driver to lose points with no fault of his own. Daniel lost 18 points in Australia and at least 12 points in Malaysia without putting a foot wrong, that's 30 points. Plus the first lap-melee in Hockenheim which saw him move back to 16th I believe. We both know although you won't admit it that if it wasn't for that, Daniel would have finished ahead of Sebastian AGAIN. And AGAIN it would have been without Seb facing any problems with the car. 

    If you're denying that Daniel did a better job so far this year and people could clearly expect a lot more from a 4 times WDC (the youngest 4xWDC at that) than just about having the same amount of points counting out the bad luck compared to a guy who was struggling to beat Vergne and even failed to do so in his first year at TR, then I'm afraid it's about time to put the rose-tinted glasses off.



  11. VetteIfan said:

    http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red-bull-rivals-target-vettel-marko/

    Let silly season commence. I see nothing in the Mercedes rumours as I don't think they would drop Hamilton just for the sake of having two German drivers. 

    Mclaren however is a different story, having made an apparent "outrageous" offer for Vettel to join them next season. I still think any team change for Vettel at the moment would be a mistake, but a lot depends on how Renault get on next year, and how indeed Honda do as well, to lead him to a more informed decision for a possible 2016 move. As the years go on in this new hybrid era the engine homologation rules get stricter and stricter with each year that passes, so Renault and Ferrari need to be getting their act together sooner rather than later. 

    If Seb doesn't up his game, I doubt many other top teams will be looking out for him. 4 titles or not, it's the presence which counts.

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