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Originally Posted by Cooper_S
I dont know about other teams, but I think your right. I remember hearing that Frank & Patrick always wanted the WCC title more than a drivers.
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Originally Posted by Cooper_S
I dont know about other teams, but I think your right. I remember hearing that Frank & Patrick always wanted the WCC title more than a drivers.
McLaren should bench Lewis after putting up with his crap for so many years.
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Originally Posted by Mark
the media always seem to try and make a big deal about the WCC, but iis all about the WDC.
Sponsors flock to the car that wins the WDC not the team that wins the WCC
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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
that's all I can say...
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Yes, harsh. I still think it's laughable that Whitmarsh would try and help Lewis win the championship while coaxing Button to play ball. Lewis is on the way out the door and I feel as if Martin resents him at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by truefan72
when any capable driver has been in a team for as long as Lewis has without achieving the ultimate success (ie WDC's) no matter how close they actually come to it, they are bound to be looking at the door.
He maybe expected Button to be more of a pushover or maybe that the team would back him more who knows but once Ron Dennis announced ne was leaving the F1 team I always felt Lewis was looking at where he would likely go next... I'm still amazed he picked Mercedes.
Now with the title fading and all these twitter incidents I think any chance of help has gone.
Roll on next season and Mercedes for Lewis now
I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but there is some talk in the press that Hamilton is not allowed to visit the Mercedes factory until the end of year. It's not clear if this is a "business as usual" rule that's part of every McLaren driver contract or whether some new rule imposed on Hamilton. I am guessing that Hamilton fuming about Button unfollowing him on Tweeter is an indication that the relationships are deteriorating. I hope that the team stays united. They need this if they want to win the constructor's championship this year.
I am pretty sure that is a standard part of most driver contracts. I seem to remember Raikkonen and/or Alonso having to wait when they were leaving their respective teams about five years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by zako85
You'd be hard pressed to find someone with a lower opinion of McLaren than me (one look at my avatar will tell you why) but I have to say that they will do everything in their power to win the WDC and they won't care which one of their drivers do it. For that I give them credit. They may be a bunch of over-corporate, uptight, knob jockeys but they are a team of racers, no doubt about it.