Driver of the day - British GP

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Originally Posted by ioan

For once we agree! What were you expecting? Rubens is not British so he can't be best of the day, not even if he won.
These are the Lewy fanboys and we'll have to live with their level.

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And all us Lewis fans have to put up with abuse because he's British. If Rubens hadn't finished 3rd then you probably still wouldn't rate LH as driver of the day :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

IN the press conference Rubens said that it was his choice to go onto wets not Brawn's.

Can't split Lewis and RB IMO, both drove very well and it shouldn't matter if Hamilton was expected to do well because I don't think anyone would predict that he'd win by 1 minute.

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I just saw the press conference, and that makes Rubins drive even more impressive.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

And you feel the need to belittle Hamilton at every available oppourtunity. Face it, Hamilton is a very good driver and did very well today, even in terrible conditions on inters. That little trip across the grass was a silly mistake but an acceptable one.

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I said Hamilton drove a good race, how is that belittling?! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by ioan

Rubens is not British so he can't be best of the day, not even if he won.

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Rubins has always been well loved over here in good old Blighty, so you are a little off the mark sonny Jim.

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Originally Posted by yodasarmpit

Rubins has always been well loved over here in good old Blighty, so you are a little off the mark sonny Jim.

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Exactly!!!

I'm remembered you could hear the crowd roar from the TV just as he passed Kimi for the lead in 2003. I remember the last few laps the crowd were jumping up and down arms in the air.

I say again, which is worse: a bad car on full wets in wet conditions or a good car on inters in wet conditions?

You're less likely to aquaplane on full wets than inters. Rubens took the safe option. Lewis would look like an idiot had he fell off the track and lost the win on inters.

I think Nakajima deserves a mention, good drive from him despite spinning 2-3 times still finished in the points.

Rubens Barrichello had an exceedingly good race today. With the correct tyre call from Ross Brawn, Barrichello took full advantage of his tyres and might well have got second if it wasn't for his re-fuelling problem. Jenson Button might have been able to get 4th had he not gone off.

However my driver of the day is Lewis Hamilton. The McLaren driver was awesome on his intermediate tyres in those torrential conditions, at one point he was going seconds faster than anyone else on inters. He lapped all his championship rivals (Massa twice) and his team mate and he finish over a minute clear of his closest challenger (the superb Nick Heidfeld). Hamilton could not have done any better today.

for sure rubinho (Rubens) on 3rd place in a honda is very impressive, he drove very well and made the right choice... but the fact is, the driver of the day is hamilton, he was a LOT faster than the other drivers in the worst part of the race,

Barrichello. Never went off track and scored a podium with a very bad car which failed to get trough Q1.
Lewis drove very well too, despite his little off-track adventure and Quick Nick also drove well. Alonso showed a good spirit.

Rain is the great 'equaliser'. It levels the playing field. Lewis blew the field away with his drive today. I think the rest of the teams/drivers have to hope for a dry 2nd half of the season 'cause another wet race is going to be another 1 horse race again.

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Originally Posted by ioan

That is crap from you sir, he was the one who kept it continuously on the road, not even Hamilton managed to do so.

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Rubens mentioned in the post-race press conference with words to the effect that he went off twice on his inlap, thus his decision to run full wets.