maybe lay off the picto spam a little Adam- you've had prolly the most serious posts in here since sunday night
just sayin'...
what has transpired still galls me, though
You know how it is- When ur driving in your car and ur stuck behind some old, slow, erratic senior citizen, you just can't wait to get past damnit! so you take some calculated risks...
Lewis was just doing what comes naturally to capable drivers who want to get on with it
Tell me, good sir- When was the last time this happened to anyone at Monaco: When people cut the chicane at the pool to avoid contact, and then give back any gained places, only to be penalised 25 seconds?
I guess if Lewis hadn't rejoined the track proper at all until Kimi was about to drive past, we wouldn't even be having these discussions... and he still would have won anyway
was nice and smokey, wazn it?
wonder if there was more oil in the dry sump reservoir or the exhaust system at the end? lol
*trundles off to TAB sportsbet to see what sort of money i can get on 'ferraris Monza engine failure(s)'....
or one could argue that the fact he was giving Kimi some major curry rattled him, and caused him to make the ensuing unforced error =P
but anywho, i offer a truce! in the spirit of fairness (still with us FIA?... FIA??... oh nvm) i suggest Massa is given a retrograde 25 second penalty for the pit-lane incident in the European GP, and the championship points standing adjusted accordingly...y'know, to be consistent and all.
how come no one seems to care about the fact that Kimi n00bed the car in to the wall good and proper all on his own a few corners later?
all this talk of where Hamilton was/would have been is, to me, irrelevant- coz Kimi no doubt would have still crashed trying to feel for grip as he did, and handed the lead to Lewis anyway.
in hindsight, Lewis shoulda just tried to wind off a little lock, get on the brakes, and then pull back behind Kimi by driving over the edge of the ripple strip. but he took the easier, safer, run-off option and got ridiculously shafted
What a dissapointing race: Here I was wishing all kinds of evil upon Phillipas engine for the last 18 laps; on the off chance that his engine could have also lunched itself spectacularly in a mushroom-cloud of burning oil like Kimberlys did. But no. Was 1 busted valve-stem or ring-land too much to ask for? really?? *sigh*
That guy is fast assuming Murray Walkers mantle for 'did-he-really-just-say-something-that-thick?' style comments
Interesting that the new circuit runs clockwise now. Should mean lower speeds on the main straight due to running uphill, but then again, the old 'turn 1' will bring you onto the straight with more speed to start with.
Two worst things about Sydney- Traffic (volume of) and Parking (usual lack of during business hours)
The stupid thing about your situation is that there's a massive disused and run-down asphalt car park just behind the campus off James Ruse Dr that's fenced off.
Park on the street at Rydalmere industrial estate and walk back over the bridge?
but was it even a wear problem?
the commentators said "look at the wear on the outside shoulders", but it didn't look any different to the inside.
it's not like the blown tyre was down to the canvas on the outside edge. who's to say it was just a manufacturing fault?
more like JT having to take evasive action in response to PK's wayward driving. was well scrappy.
nowhere, as per usual
ima go out on a limb and categorically state that this guy will never win a race (forget about the WDC), regardless of whatever car He's in, save for him 'doing a Bradbury' and getting favourable accident/pace car conditions or other cars getting DNFs
never say never? i'm saying NEVER!
...never
Of course Heikki is number 2 at McLaren. If he was a second and a half a lap faster than Lewis, he'd be number 1.
But he ain't, so he isn't. Simple.
He plays a good wing man anyway. He has decent consistency, and good pace- All his points finishes should help the team clinch the Constructors title towards the end of the season .