Alonso and Button.
Hamilton for donkey award for wanting to retire after a puncture at the start of the race - even with the benefit of hindsight. What a wimp. :down:
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Alonso and Button.
Hamilton for donkey award for wanting to retire after a puncture at the start of the race - even with the benefit of hindsight. What a wimp. :down:
No Way! It was Alonso who cost him the win. Couldn't get close in the DRS zone and Alonso deployed KERS in the perfect places. Those were Buttons exact words. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dr Giacomo Rappaccini
McLaren made him go back out and collect tire data to use for Button's race. Not bad for a number two driver. Lmao...Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
A point well taken! Regardless of what Button said; unfortunately in the U.S. they didn't show this race live, and my comment was based on what I observed from a Sky proxy in a 3x5 inch window while paying much more attention to sector, lap times in another window, and commenting on two forums. After watching it on a proper HDTV with full attention on the racing it is abundantly clear that Fred won this race on merit, which was largely due to getting the pole with a car that some said was not set-up for dry racing, which his race pace proved was an erroneous assumption, not to mention his guile, and superior race craft :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by kfzmeister
Forza Ferrari.....Scuderia Alonso! :D :cool:
Well, he said earlier this week that he exists to win and obviously is not interested in anything else. Now I hope that you can understand why I can't stand the guy, although I admire his talent and respect his achievements in the sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
As always - I say that I am not a fan and I am blamed immediately :DQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Alonso. Button - no way. He should have won the race and he was slower than Hamilton for a lot of it even though Hamilton's car was damaged. It was about time he had a good race but no way he was drive of the day. Schuey had a great race, so did Perez and Kobayashi.
Honorable mention to Petrove for finishing 16th in a race where there was only 1 retirement.
Donkey, Vettel for his overtake one Button which was always going to be penalized thus costing him valuable championship points.
Button AKA "Can't Pass" ? :crazy:
Alonso, Kimi and Kobayashi for me.
Driver Alonso, with plenty of honorable mentions... Kimi, both Sauber drivers, both Force India drivers... plenty of good drives.
Donkey... the track officials who had no idea that some first turn incidents might leave debris on the track. I can certainly understand that during a race you don't send track workers darting across the track, but you would think any well prepared race would have contingencies to clear debris in the first couple of turns at the race start. This isn't unique to this race but they were lucky only Lewis suffered a puncture, and even more lucky some of that flying carbon fiber didn't injure someone. That was some nasty chunks of stuff flying around!
I think your memory may be a bit selective there. Button was lapping considerably faster than Hamilton for the vast majority of the race, bar a handful of laps after each of Hamilton's pit stops. Check out the race history chart on the FIA web site.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Black Knight