Donkey of the race

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Originally Posted by I am evil Homer

I don't get this...he's frustrated so showed it. People can't have it both ways and moan that he's being a "mclaren robot" then moan when he shows he's angry. Give the guy a break, he could have scored a podium were it not for an enitrely dumb team call and then Webber having total brain fade.

You want him to say he was happy with the result and getting some points?

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Many other posters have argued the point which I want to bring across. But, I guess I was comparing his demeanour to Button more than anything. Think of it, Button's race went downhill right from the beginning. He was left at the tail end of the field after a spin and, when he pitted for dry tyres, his car looked undriveable. I said to myself at that stage, "Well, Button's race is over." But, the tyres began to work and he ended up driving on and winning. There was no hostility between Button and the team. He wasn't bad-mouthing them when he went to drys, even when that setup didn't look favourable.

In Hamilton's case, he screwed up Qualifying. Then the team made a decision which was obviously with intentions of getting him to achieve a better result. He drove his heart out, no doubt, and the strategy may have compromised his run. But, Hamilton's driving style is far more aggressive that Button's so who is to say that, with a one-stop, Hamilton may have knackered his tyres and spun off or punctured. To let out at the team in the way he did I find to be immature. Which he is. He's only got 3 years experience. Yet, I can't help in thinking that he believes he's at the top of his game and has nothing to improve on. That if something goes wrong, it's the teams fault. He needs to build character and I believe he will, as many greats have done in the past. It's just annoying for the time-being and, as a result, he's my donkey of the race :)

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Hamilton too has often expressed the 'win as a team, lose as a team' mantra.

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Funny, being a McLaren driver with McLaren blood you would've thought that would've been drilled into him by now.

As with Rubens 'Blah, blah' Barrichello and Fernando 'sixth-tenths' Alonso it goes to show that there's nothing worse than being beaten by your team mate.

A shame we never saw how Schumi would've handled such debacles.

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Originally Posted by wedge

A shame we never saw how Schumi would've handled such debacles.

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Huh? He is beaten twice now by Rosberg and he didn't blame the team and only praised Nico.

Donkey of the race? All those who said this year would be boring after Bahrain! :)

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Originally Posted by wmcot

Donkey of the race? All those who said this year would be boring after Bahrain! :)

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Hah, so true :)

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Originally Posted by henners88

After watching the race for a second time I'll have to go back on my earlier post on this thread and declare Webber as the donkey of the race. This really was the most appalling drive of his career to date IMO, and he seemed to drive to lose rather than to win.

The irony of this IMO is if we look back to 2008, Webber was quite outspoken about Hamilton and slammed his agressive driving style. My memory might be a little rusty but apart from Canada, I don't remember Lewis aggressively pushing anyone off the race track during that period. Webber had 2 incidents where he effectively forced Hamilton wide in one instance and rammed him off in the second. Carrying too much speed into a corner with virtually no chance of making it stick (twice), leads me to the conclusion Webber is deserving of this title. He also had incident last year in Germany where he pushed Ruben's on the grass at 180mph, so I would go as far to say that Webber, Schuey and Hamilton are probably the most aggressive drivers on the grid at present.

Webber needs to keep his head or Mateschitz will be phoning Kimi to find out if he has any free time next March and beyond.. :p :)

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So thrue. Webber are under great pressure, but thats no excuse.

I vote Bernie as Donkey of the race for the second year running for making the race start later making it harder to watch, I luckily managed to stay awake for the race but fell asleep and missed qualifying :mad:

Webber for sure.

Webber closely followed by Alonso

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Originally Posted by RMLCruzeing82

Webber closely followed by Alonso

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Good thing it wasn't the other way, Webber might have nerfed him off too. :p :