Driver of the day - British GP

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6th July 2008, 15:59
markabilly

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Originally Posted by wedge

Well it was a team effort. Rubens made the first call and Ross and co would crunch some numbers and have more info on the weather.

I'm wondering which is harder to drive:

A bad car on full wets in wet conditions or a good car on inters in wet conditions??? :confused:

Team effort and planning!!!and I would take a bad car with proper tires over inter or "semi-dry" on a really wet track, so hats off to lewis (although I am sure he will do a fine job congratulating himself without any help from any of us forum members or anyone else either.)
6th July 2008, 16:01
BDunnell

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Originally Posted by VkmSpouge

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.

I couldn't possibly add anything to that.

By the way, ioan, does the fact that I agree that Hamilton was the driver of the race, combined with the fact that I'm British, make me a 'Lewy fanboy'? Because no-one can just have an opinion on something without some sort of national or personal bias, can they...
6th July 2008, 16:03
BDunnell

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Originally Posted by F1boat

Quick Nick also drove well.

Yes, he did, and he pulled off the move of the day. Great stuff.
6th July 2008, 16:24
MrJan

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Yes, he did, and he pulled off the move of the day. Great stuff.

He pulled off 2 moves of the day :eek: Solid drive :up:
6th July 2008, 16:37
ioan

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

And all us Lewis fans have to put up with abuse because he's British.

No, because he is stupid. That's my opinion about him. Maybe he'll get smarter when he'll grow up, but for now he lacks something between the ears.
6th July 2008, 16:39
maxu05

The top 3 were standouts for sure, but I was very impressed with Nakajima finishing 8th, great drive IMO.
6th July 2008, 16:42
ioan

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Yes, he did, and he pulled off the move of the day. Great stuff.

Hopefully he really got over his qualifying problems. I was having enough of how exceptional Robert is and how poor Nick is in comparison.
6th July 2008, 16:45
VkmSpouge

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Originally Posted by maxu05

The top 3 were standouts for sure, but I was very impressed with Nakajima finishing 8th, great drive IMO.

I thought Nakajima had a good drive but he did have a spin and lost 7th place on the last lap which tempered how good I thought it was.
Nick Heidfeld also had a good race he also had the two best passes of the day. Outside of Glock and inside of Alonso and then a few laps later inside of both Raikkonen and Kovalainen. Great moves.
6th July 2008, 16:56
DezinerPaul

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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.

It's appalling how Hamilton fans can't be happy even when he drove a good race, they still feel the need to belittle the competition. :rolleyes:

There is a valid point here, regarding McLaren fans. Now I am aware that it is wrong to generalize, however there is not another option. McLaren fans, never give another driver credit, unless he is British (yes it seems as though most McLaren fans are British). They always have an excuse, blame Ferrari and or the FIA/Max. In other words, Hamilton/McLaren fans are the worst sports. Maybe it comes from the extreme jealousy they had for the greatest of them all, Michael Schumacher and what he did in making Ferrari the greatest team ever.
6th July 2008, 16:57
Robinho

any other day Rubens would have it for me, Nick also showed some flashes and good pace without mistakes, but i'd say Lewis for the times when he was seconds quicker than everyone else on the same tyres - for me it was one of those drives that made everyone else lok a little bit silly, Senna '93 donington, MS, Spain '97 spring to mind

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