Lewis, quit using Twitter you fool!

I think all sides will be relieved actually to see the end of this season.

Lewis - He will always be grateful to Mclaren for giving him many wins and title in F1 and would have loved to get this years title for him and the team. However with all thats gone on now. I think he will be glad to get to Mercedes and start again.

Mclaren - They would have liked the title I am sure, but haven't really given anyone the impression that they are busting a gut to help Lewis. Its more a case of they would give Lewis the best car possible, but no extra help. I dont believe any sabotage rumors.
They will be looking ahead and planning a Button title assault. They will be happy to forget the last few months, although neither they or Lewis have covered themselves in glory.

Button - He will be glad he hasn't got to play number 2 this year and will surely get a Button friendly car as much as possible for next season.

All in all, Lewis has lost the team through silly rants and incidents and the team have acted in quite a small minded and strangely unMclaren way.

All have blame and all will be happy to see 2013.

I never used twitter by it seems to me the problem is that it's just to easy to use... I mean, if even football players can use it :rolleyes: (not that I don't appreciate the opportunity of being constantly enlightened by their words of wisdom). they should make some changes, have them check boxes, fill forms, chaptcha, enter passwords... the whole deal and by the time they get to actually write something they realize it wasn't that important after all... and for the football players it would be like an IQ based filter.

As for Hamilton... who cares really? Is anyone actually surprised by this? It's just Hamilton at his finest.

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Originally Posted by F1boat

I think so as well. McLaren, I think don't want to win anything with Lewis anymore. My feeling is that they want this season to be over and can't wait to try to win next year with Jenson.

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And what? Suddenly after Lewis has gone, Jenson will win the championship with Mclaren?

Jenson is not winning a championship again unless Mclaren come up with a Brawn GP from 2009 i.e. at least seven tenths to a second faster than the closest competitor AND Ferrari, Red Bull, Lotus & Mercedes all screw up their respective car designs for 2013. Highly unlikely.

Finding the perfect car setup for Jenson to win a race is like sitting in front of a slot machine in a casino every weekend. Put your coin in, pull the lever and pray to hit the jackpot. If not, it's your usual underwhelming midfield run.

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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

Finding the perfect car setup for Jenson to win a race is like sitting in front of a slot machine in a casino every weekend. Put your coin in, pull the lever and pray to hit the jackpot. If not, it's your usual underwhelming midfield run.

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Nice. :D

I'm stealing this from you.

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Originally Posted by aki13

I think all sides will be relieved actually to see the end of this season.

Lewis - He will always be grateful to Mclaren for giving him many wins and title in F1 and would have loved to get this years title for him and the team. However with all thats gone on now. I think he will be glad to get to Mercedes and start again.

Mclaren - They would have liked the title I am sure, but haven't really given anyone the impression that they are busting a gut to help Lewis. Its more a case of they would give Lewis the best car possible, but no extra help. I dont believe any sabotage rumors.
They will be looking ahead and planning a Button title assault. They will be happy to forget the last few months, although neither they or Lewis have covered themselves in glory.

Button - He will be glad he hasn't got to play number 2 this year and will surely get a Button friendly car as much as possible for next season.

All in all, Lewis has lost the team through silly rants and incidents and the team have acted in quite a small minded and strangely unMclaren way.

All have blame and all will be happy to see 2013.

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Wonderful post, Aki. :)

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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

And what? Suddenly after Lewis has gone, Jenson will win the championship with Mclaren?

Jenson is not winning a championship again unless Mclaren come up with a Brawn GP from 2009 i.e. at least seven tenths to a second faster than the closest competitor AND Ferrari, Red Bull, Lotus & Mercedes all screw up their respective car designs for 2013. Highly unlikely.

Finding the perfect car setup for Jenson to win a race is like sitting in front of a slot machine in a casino every weekend. Put your coin in, pull the lever and pray to hit the jackpot. If not, it's your usual underwhelming midfield run.

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Time will tell what will happen. But the Brawn did enjoy their advantage only in the first third of the season and it was not 7 tenths of a second... Red Bull were quite competitive since Oz, but Vettel crashed in Kubica in race 1 and got a grid penalty for race 2, so he was unable to show his true pace.

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Time will tell what will happen. But the Brawn did enjoy their advantage only in the first third of the season and it was not 7 tenths of a second... Red Bull were quite competitive since Oz, but Vettel crashed in Kubica in race 1 and got a grid penalty for race 2, so he was unable to show his true pace.

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Brawn won 8 out of the 17 races in 2009, that's almost half of the races. It's not the car's fault that Jenson pretty much sucked in the second half of the season and Rubens did a better job. Judging by recent form, any of the top tier drivers, i.e. Alonso or Lewis would have wiped the competition clean in that car.

Button's pole position time in the Brawn was 6 tenths quicker than Vettel's Red Bull at Australia. Alonso or Lewis very well could have squeaked a couple of tenths more. So yes, that car was mighty quick.

I know you're a Button fan and all boat, but let's face it, he's a fair weather driver and lacks the ability of an Alonso or Hamilton to drive around setup issues. Setup wise he hit the jackpot twice this year at Australia and Belgium. The rest of the time where was he really? Finishing out of the points multiple times, whereas Lewis has been racking up pole positions and been near the podium almost all the time, and would have had four wins this year, and still in the title hunt, if not for the Singapore DNF and Mclaren pit stop brain farts throughout the year.

Mclaren better pray and hope that Perez is the next Senna and all the brilliance he's been showing is not just down to the Sauber, and that Button learns to adapt his driving style around setup issues, or else it looks highly likely they're in for another long, dry spell as far as WCC and WDC goes.

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Mclaren - They will be looking ahead and planning a Button title assault. They will be happy to forget the last few months, although neither they or Lewis have covered themselves in glory.

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For that "assault" to happen, Mclaren will have to give Button a ridiculously fast and easy handling car. Good luck to them!

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Button - He will be glad he hasn't got to play number 2 this year and will surely get a Button friendly car as much as possible for next season.

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Button never had to play number 2 during his time at Mclaren, ever. If anything, MW has been accused by Mclaren fans of favoring Button over Lewis.

This year's car was Button friendly. It's just that Button struggles with setup issues, always has, and is not consistent enough over a season.

I don't believe for a second that an F1 team designs or sets up a car around only one of their drivers, because they're in it for the WCC as well. They're not gonna put all their eggs in one basket to have their second driver (who they are paying millions) struggle to even get into Q3.

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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

Brawn won 8 out of the 17 races in 2009, that's almost half of the races. It's not the car's fault that Jenson pretty much sucked in the second half of the season and Rubens did a better job. Judging by recent form, any of the top tier drivers, i.e. Alonso or Lewis would have wiped the competition clean in that car.

Button's pole position time in the Brawn was 6 tenths quicker than Vettel's Red Bull at Australia. Alonso or Lewis very well could have squeaked a couple of tenths more. So yes, that car was mighty quick.

I know you're a Button fan and all boat, but let's face it, he's a fair weather driver and lacks the ability of an Alonso or Hamilton to drive around setup issues. Setup wise he hit the jackpot twice this year at Australia and Belgium. The rest of the time where was he really? Finishing out of the points multiple times, whereas Lewis has been racking up pole positions and been near the podium almost all the time, and would have had four wins this year, and still in the title hunt, if not for the Singapore DNF and Mclaren pit stop brain farts throughout the year.

Mclaren better pray and hope that Perez is the next Senna and all the brilliance he's been showing is not just down to the Sauber, and that Button learns to adapt his driving style around setup issues, or else it looks highly likely they're in for another long, dry spell as far as WCC and WDC goes.

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I agree with all this. Hamilton has wiped the floor with Button this year. He'd be on for his second WDC now were it now for Singapore, Germany, Maldumbado in Valencia, Japan again not his fault, Bahrain and other pit stop blunders. It's amazing he's only 52 points off the lead.

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or else it looks highly likely they're in for another long, dry spell as far as WCC and WDC goes.

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They are already in long dry spell with Lewis... but OK, I forgot, it's never Lewis fault, McLaren sabotage him ;)