Malaysian Grand Prix thread

[steveaki13]

Palmer doing a good job here today. Can he get that 10th place and a point?

[Tazio]

Palmer should get the point. This has been the most entertaining race in some time. Fred driver of the race.

[steveaki13]

Boo to Bull orders

[steveaki13]

Fred defo driver of the day

[longisland]

All In All, it's an great action packed dry race in Malaysia.
The venue is not as empty as perceived
For me it's a keeper

[Koz]

Lewis thinks there's a conspiracy afoot!!

[steveaki13]

Hamilton saying it doesnt feel right that its only his engines that fail.

Saying he is having bad luck or saying some underhand tactics are at play..... If that latter thats a big thing to say and might see him loosing any support from Merc.

[Tazio]

Boss just has the bad ju ju this season. I already told you guys that some time back!

[longisland]

hamilton has every right to vent his frustration
He didn't put a foot wrong and the car blew up in his face
Red Bull still owes one win to Ric imho

[Nitrodaze]

Lewis thinks there's a conspiracy afoot!!

I think if you want to be politically correct you would say it is pure bad luck. You may also say it is unthinkable that Mercedes would give a win that is in the bag to rival Redbull with the aim of favoring Rosberg over Hamilton. But if you look at the statistics coldly, you have to say the statistics to not align with the politically correct view.

The cold facts are that Mercedes have the first pick of the engines before allocating engines to customer teams. And the engine in the Hamilton car was a new engine that has done only three races. Based on these facts, you would expect reliability issues to be with customer team as opposed to the Mercedes reigning world champion who you would expect to have the very best choice of the parts.

This situation begins to make one think, how would a team bring about a championship outcome of their choice against a stronger driver? If they were to do that, this would be just the way they would go about it. But there are questions like how really would they make an engine fail during the race without leaving a trace in any computer logs? You have to remember that a gearbox failure cheated Hamilton of his first championship win in his first season in 2007.

What do you think guys and gals, is Mercedes fixing the driver championship?

That said, Rosberg drove a fantastic race and deserved a podium and to extend his lead to Hamilton in this race. For me, Alonso was the driver of the race. I really enjoyed the fight between Ricciado and Verstappen. Verstappen drove like a champion in waiting today. Also congratulations to Palmer for getting his first F1 point today, his chances of keeping his drive just went up big time today.