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Originally Posted by ioan
The telecast here is a lot later and by chance I found out that Hamilton won. In hindsite, I am so pleased I found out, for the thought of listening to Allen rambling on with his ridiculous rhetoric about Airhead Hamilton, is more than any human should have to endure.
whilst James "i'm a massive cock" Allen was quite annoying today, fortunately on that score the cameras followed the racing behind hamilton for a lot of the race as Lewis was clear after the first quarterQuote:
Originally Posted by DezinerPaul
I think it's the same for all fans of everything. Football fans will always blame the referee, racing drivers will have all sorts of excuses and so will their fans. I'm a Hamilton fan but wouldn't say that I'm a bad sport, a good drive will always deserve praise. Schumacher fans were just the same and are still perfectly happy to jump to the defence of disgraceful sportsmanship (I'm thinking Monaco track blocking here).Quote:
Originally Posted by DezinerPaul
On the James Allen subject I don't think he's that bad. (Although that may be because I tune him out). The majority of F1 viewers are fairly casual and are most likely to be interested in Hamilton and no one else. Just because a lot of people watch that don't want to hear about him doesn't mean that he will stop harping on. Also you've got to remember that Britain hasn't had a driver of Hamilton's calibre for a very long time so it's fairly exciting for a lot of people.
To be honest though, as long as Brundle keeps up with sensible comments (like not asking Ross Brawn how amazing LH is but about heavy fuel loads) then I'm happy (although even he can be a bit dodgy at times). It's when the camera only shows the leaders that annoys me. Just because a battle between 3 drivers is only for 10th doesn't mean that it's less exciting than watching the leader 10 seconds ahead of everyone else. Show the bloody racing. (Incidentally thought that coverage was very good today, lots of lower field action and barely saw Hamilton for half the race :up: )
You said "The majority of F1 viewers are fairly casual and are most likely to be interested in Hamilton and no one else" are you talking about all viewers, or just the UK. For my part, I can't stand the guy, I find him to be an obnoxious, loudmouth airhead, in fact I can easily say, that I dislike him almost as much as I did Senna and no I dont hate everybody except Michael, truth is I like most of the drivers. ( of course I cannot stand the Hobbit)
I wouldn't be so arrogant or shortsighted to believe that the rest of the world cares :) Lewis has created a lot of interest in the UK (look at the crowd for today) and it seems that more people are watching the sport but only know 1 name. These are the people that don't want to see anyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by DezinerPaul
And given that England is not used to having a winner in any major sport young Lewis is quite a rarity that people want to shout about. Slowly though people are realising that he isn't all smiles. Like most great racers he's got a fairly nasty streak but at the minute he seems to be getting the job done and that's what the general punlic in the UK are after.
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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo
Good post, accurate description!
Yeah! Absolutely fantastic! Hamilton has answered to all those critics, who have said he is no good, can't handle the pressure, will never win a WDC, etc, in brilliant style! :cool: In front of homecrowd, under a lot of criticism, in changing and difficult conditions he absolutely destroyed the opposition! I know this statement may upset some, but Hamilton was truly Sennaesque today! ;) This drive was certainly no inferior to Senna's in Donington 1993. Lewis has won 3 wet races out of 5 in his F1 career, which means the winning percentage is 60 - who dares to say he's not a Rainmaster?
It's not too often I would vote for a winner, but an advantage of a full minute shows an incredible, a truly outstanding performance. I'm hyping him a lot now ( :p :) , but I have been tired of all those critics and the revenge is sweet. Don't write off Lewis, he is well in the championship contention!
Hamilton was absolutely stunning today. Brilliant. His winning margin over the rest of the field says it all. In those conditions (which were the same for everyone) he was very simply a class apart.
Rubens had a great race as well. To get the Honda on the podium is quite an achievement, but that should be qualified by saying the team had nothing to lose. They gambled and they won - good on 'em :up:
Thats complete and utter rubbish. I was at the race and when Barichello stepped up onto the podium he got by far the biggest cheer of the day. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by eu
Although Hamilton made a great start and had a great over take its still got to be Ruben's for me. Today's conditions were those where Rubens just exceeds everyones expectations. Unfortunately I doubt Rubens has got many more years in him and we wont get to see too many more drives like that from him in the future.
Would have it been different if kimi had been running the same tires strategy as hamilton?
Would have been far more interesting