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Ron: Heikki - Let theGolden Boy through, let the Golden Boy through :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ioan
It wasn`t team order at silverstone, in my view. It was at hockhenheim though, that was obvious to everyone.
The real question we should be asking is - what the hell is Kovalainen doing being so slow in the currently best car of the field? His pace has been an absolute joke.
McLaren did the right thing to tell him to get the hell out of Hamiltons way
Is it Hamilton just faster? Is it Kova too slow or..... is it that their cars are "different"? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
I think that Hamilton has demonstrated his speed time and time again.Quote:
Originally Posted by mstillhere
IF you think that Ron hired Fernando to handicap him against a (then) rookie and
IF you think that Ron decided that he will only have one car going as fast as it possibly can and
IF you think that HK would do just as well as Lewis if nasty Ron would just let him drive as fast as he wanted
THEN the new X Files film is out. Can you review it for me please and post your opinion in the special matter transferance portal cunningly marked "Trash". :D
I just love the conspiracy theories surrounding F1.
We know MS was #1 at Ferrari but does anyone believe for a second that Ferrari would not have given Rubins the fastest possible car to support him. After all, they only had to tell him to stop for a cuppa if they they wanted MS to win.
Similarly with McLaren, occassionally Hekki shows strong and gets the maximum out of the car but most the time he's noticibly slower. Last week it was 1/2 a sec a lap and there was nobody going to stop Lewis. If he had of tried, he would have lost time to the people following and might have taken himself out of the race.
Only difference between the MS and Lewis situation is that we see Hekki and Lewis battleing when Hekki has the speed.
As we saw with Massa and Jnr, he was going past no matter what.
So, based on what the McLaren's fans are saying, (Lewis naturally faster than Kovi) I don't expect Kovi to be kept next year, since based on his performance (6th?) a McLAren on him is totally wasted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knock-on
Although, according to this article:http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=43482 McLAren itself agrees that Kovi has been...hum...negletted. My guess would be to stop Kovi from competing with Lewis. And that's coming from McLaren themselves saying again that the team needs to be closer to Kovi.
"McLaren’s F1 CEO Martin Whitmarsh says the team needs to work closely with Heikki Kovalainen to help him exploit his full potential and reach the same performance level as team-mate Lewis Hamilton"
http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=43482
Funny, because a few months ago....
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66085
"McLaren have rebuilt Heikki Kovalainen's confidence and turned him into a Formula One driver who can push teammate Lewis Hamilton all the way this season, according to Ron Dennis.
"Heikki is a guy who was systematically taken apart last year and we have systematically put him back together again," the McLaren boss told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper on Tuesday."
Damn internet!!!!!!!!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tamburello
The typical McLaren bull$hit, also known as Ronspeak.Quote:
Originally Posted by tamburello
http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr420.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Hekki should not have moved over. He should have caused as much trouble for Lewis as possible, so that hopefully, both cars would have been damaged and at best, not finished the race. Then and only then would no-one accuse them of having team orders.Quote:
At the same time Alboreto stopped with a gearbox problem and so second place was suddenly in the hands of Jacques Laffite's Ligier. Rosberg pitted again for new tires but was still well ahead. Laffite realized that there was no way he could catch Keke and backed off but his team mate Streiff came charging up. Laffite thought he was a lap behind and Streiff thought that he was under pressure from Capelli (who was actually a lap behind) and as a result the two Ligiers contrived to collide. Laffite's car was largely undamaged but Streiff's lost its right front wheel. Undeterred by this Streiff decided to drive it the one lap to the finish line, which he succeeded in doing. Capelli was fourth with Johansson fifth and Berger sixth.
Oh sure, roll your eyes. Here I am trying to help you X-Filers out and that's the thanks I get! That's how Dennis communicated the team orders to Heikki. The little green men travel in a different dimension. Only the McLaren team can see them. And they run real fast. Ron gave them the word. They ran out onto the track and jumped on top of Heikki's car and screamed "Now Heikki! NOW!!!". Did you notice how suddenly he moved out of the way? Well, if a little green man had his junk pushed up in the visor of your helmet, yelling at you, I bet you'd make a sudden move too.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
I've switched sides. I'm with you guys now. Dirty rotten, cheating cheaters! Green men lovers!!! Stay strong. We know what happened, don't we?
I'm with you. This is the most exciting F1 season that I can remember, in 35+ years of following the sport. This was a great race with great action. And some of this lot will nitpick something to death... claiming that they KNOW what the FIA doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
I like Kimi. Massa not so much. Heikki seems a good lad too. And of course, I'm pulling for Lewis. But if Kimi had let Massa by under the same circumstances, ya know what... short of proof (not "I saw THIS, therefore I know THAT"), I'd let it go and look forward to the next contest.... hoping that it would be the barnburner that this one was.
But you could turn a mouse loose in a rest home, and the old ladies there wouldn't make as much noise as some of these people. There's a moose in the hoose!!! :D