Lewis Hamilton of the race

Not a great way for Michael to retire.... rookie mistake.

Not the first time he's retired.

A slight misjudgement by Hamilton, but a very costly one. Good recovery drive though. He's flying at this stage of the race.

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

A slight misjudgement by Hamilton, but a very costly one. Good recovery drive though. He's flying at this stage of the race.

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That's the thing, in isolation most of the Lewis' incidents are nothing to get worked up over but then there are incidents like Spa or Canada which are real bonehead moves.

According to Speed Hamilton chewed out his team in very high handed fashion......

What was the deal with Perez? Brake checking, blocking or incompetence. Schumi should have known better though, kept his distance

But I think the Lewis of the race for second place, belongs to the Schuie's team.. That is the worst race strategy for him that I have seen in the last few races, given a team that is supposed to be top tier. It is as though they wanted to keep Schuuie behind Rosberg no matter what

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Originally Posted by Daniel

That's the thing, in isolation most of the Lewis' incidents are nothing to get worked up over but then there are incidents like Spa or Canada which are real bonehead moves.

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And the cumulative effect of them is to suggest a driver who is not entirely in control of himself at present.

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Originally Posted by markabilly

According to Speed Hamilton chewed out his team in very high handed fashion......

What was the deal with Perez? Brake checking, blocking or incompetence. Schumi should have known better though, kept his distance

But I think the Lewis of the race for second place, belongs to the Schuie's team.. That is the worst race strategy for him that I have seen in the last few races, given a team that is supposed to be top tier. It is as though they wanted to keep Schuuie behind Rosberg no matter what

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Yep for some reason he came back more then 5-8 seconds behind rosberg each time, and I think he was much faster after both stops than rosberg.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

And the cumulative effect of them is to suggest a driver who is not entirely in control of himself at present.

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I think he's very much in control, he just has no idea of when to fight and when to just let things take their course.

I nominate HAM as both the Donkey of the race for his clash with Massa, and an honourable mention for Driver of the race for his amazing recovery drive notwithstanding a rather harsh drive-through.

Other Donkeys include Schumacher for misjudging the Sauber's braking; Rosberg for cheating - there's no other word for it - at the start then forcing Perez off the track, he was lucky to escape a penalty; and Renault for being dog slow all weekend.

Drivers of the Day: Vettel was in a class of his own and kept scampering off into the lead; Button piled on the pressure and never ever gave up, looking like he could have won if there were another lap; and Di Resta who made an unusual strategy pay off and put his team mate in the shade.

Lewis and Schumi get their awards thrown at them today.


Another donkey mention.

If Jaime had crashed there on lap 40 a SC would be deployed as someone could crash badly into it.

Yet if its with 2 laps to go, the organisers ignore the fact its dangerous to hope for a great finish, but someone could still injure themselves even if the race is at stake.