Lewis crash at Valencia

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

Quite agree.

We do not know what caused this crash. It may have been driver error or a failure but it happened.

Lewis is a professional and I hope he will be ready to get into the car and give it 100% asap.

McLaren have a huge heritage and to say they build crap cars just shows ignorance of the sport.

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Knock-on +20! thank you for taking the words out of my mouth!

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Originally Posted by tinchote

Absolutely! Then we can take the best lap out of a hundred for each car, and we can have overwhelming evidence of which car is better than others, irrespective of whichever configuration they had ;) :D

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Well, at least tests will give us hints. But it's our task to understand them correctly (which, alas, is often not done so). :)

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Originally Posted by fousto

If I understand it was wet. Going off in the wet with a rookiee is hardly reason for concern. The big thing is he is fine and Ron knows he will bend some **** up coming up to speed.

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Going off in the wet is rarely an indication of anything other than it was wet. Raikkonen and Massa had episodes in wet testing.

I heard on BBC that Lewis is okay and might come into the car vey soon. :)

I already see threads coming:

"Massa slide at Jerez :eek: "
"Kimi stumble at Fiorano :eek: "
"Giancarlo hiccup in Rome :eek: "
"Jenson fart at in-laws :eek: "

Gonna be interesting :s mokin:

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Originally Posted by Erki

I already see threads coming:

"Massa slide at Jerez "
"Kimi stumble at Fiorano "
"Giancarlo hiccup in Rome "
"Jenson fart at in-laws "

Gonna be interesting :s mokin:

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Erki - and at least one person will write that the "event" will mean that driver X cannot win, or will win, or ...

:beer:

..or has a "mechanical" fault. :erm:

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Originally Posted by K-Pu

Well, this is funnier in Spain, qhere newspapers have rushed to kill Hamilton. They try to "say" that the accident was his fault, and he has destroyed a car 5 minutes after joining the team.....Spanish F1 press is pure bull****

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K-Pu, it's not limited to Spain.

The 'Daily Mail' in the UK had an article on Lewis Hamilton on Friday, in which it stated that Lewis had already beaten Alonso in a test before Christmas.

What they didn't mention was that Lewis had already had three days at that test in a car he had already had a few tests in and Fernando had, oh, about 10 laps in a car he'd never driven before.

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Originally Posted by jens

Question.

When will common tests take place as so far teams have tested on different circuits alone? Can't wait for the common tests, that might give us the first signs what might be expected from future...

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It's a matter of a couple of days; next week nine teams will test at Valencia.

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Originally Posted by jens

If I understand it was wet.

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No; it was not wet. Rain started about eight hours later.

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Originally Posted by Erki

I already see threads coming:

"Massa slide at Jerez :eek: "
"Kimi stumble at Fiorano "
"Giancarlo hiccup in Rome "
"Jenson fart at in-laws "

Gonna be interesting :s mokin:

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Is Fiorano a nightclub? :D :p :

I can see that one on the front of a Finnish newspaper :rolleyes: