McLarens underweight?

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Originally Posted by wedge

It's the "save fuel" thing.

Notice how just before the podium when Jenson asked Lewis this and Lewis turned his back on the camera and muffled his response.

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Indeed. We all know that "save fuel" is code for "don't race each other".

Fuel being "critical" must be team talk for "no really, seriously, don't race each other again". :p

save fuel....one would think that should be obvious code...of course there was the time that clark ran out at monza in 1967....before the time of re-fueling---

Lewis has just told the BBC that his muted celebrations were down to "mixed emotions" and the "confusion at the end".

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

Lewis has just told the BBC that his muted celebrations were down to "mixed emotions" and the "confusion at the end".

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I certainly think you'd look like a bit of an idiot to celebrate a win like that which was clearly only theirs because of Webber and Vettel's silliness.

Yup. A win's a win, but certainly McLaren had this handed to them on a plate.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

I certainly think you'd look like a bit of an idiot to celebrate a win like that which was clearly only theirs because of Webber and Vettel's silliness.

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agreed

but if it was MSC back in the day he would have leaped up in the air pumping fists and acting like he just performed the drive of his race. ;)

But i certainly understand the slightly muted celebration. To em it was more of Hamilton expressing relief at getting the win and putting some f the gremlins behind him. It was a tough race and he surely thought after the pitstop that he was going to be at best 2nd in the race.

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Originally Posted by AndyL

Lewis's subdued demeanor did seem a bit odd, that would certainly explain it. But surely Jenson will have mentioned to the team that the car needs to be up to the weight limit even when all the fuel has been taken out?

And they had enough gap to save a lot more fuel if they needed too.

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You're right saving fuel wouldn't have changed anything, the car has to met a minimum weight with driver and without fuel.

i agree with many here , still while Lewis was seen coasting Jenson thought he could sneak past him and lewis immedietly reacted with ;no i am having none of it and pulled away from jenson, that is something stamp authority from Lewis.. despite foolish shunt from desperate vettel it was good race.. nice to see mclaren 1 2 after so long time .lol... however mclaren Vs redbull gap is definitely closed down to 1/10th of a second, mclaren revival towards championship, sings are there :-)

They were telling Lewis to save fuel laps before Button made his move, so I'm not buying that the team did it to keep them from racing. I think Jenson simple thought he could catch Lewis off guard and went for it. Lewis wasn't having it and both drivers knew it could hurt the fuel situation or worse, end up similar to the Red Bulls.

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Originally Posted by airshifter

They were telling Lewis to save fuel laps before Button made his move, so I'm not buying that the team did it to keep them from racing. I think Jenson simple thought he could catch Lewis off guard and went for it. Lewis wasn't having it and both drivers knew it could hurt the fuel situation or worse, end up similar to the Red Bulls.

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Thats exactly the way I saw it too.. I believe there may well have been some apprehension regarding their post race weights due to them racing each other when they should have been saving fuel.