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All this anti-Lewis hysteria.

You people are typical of those who can't do, but criticize instead.

He's young, famous, glamorous, talented and good looking. And rich. With a pop-star girlfriend.

I'm sure he'd be REALLY upset by what a miserable bunch of under-achievers like you lot think of him.

Lewis isn't looking as mentally strong as Rosberg that's for sure.

Pity I liked him when he first arrived, but not so keen these days.

I bet hes an ace laugh in person. Very high-pressured work like F1 must really be a strain on you as a person. I remember hearing about Mika Hakinnen being quite highly strung and cracking a few times.

Can we even start to imagine the pressure let alone the danger?

How the bloody ell Pastor manages to keep his race licence let alone a seat is beyond me!

Mr Woppit - Member

All this anti-Lewis hysteria.

You people are typical of those who can't do, but criticize instead.

He's young, famous, glamorous, talented and good looking. And rich. With a pop-star girlfriend.

I'm sure he'd be REALLY upset by what a miserable bunch of under-achievers like you lot think of him.

I guess all the pubs you go to everyone sits in silence. Or maybe it's just when you walk in.

Can't have anyone having an opinion or discussing anything...

Grumpy old man is grumpy shocker.

... and that would be MY opinion....

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/gossip/ ]From the BBC F1 Gossip page[/url]

Double world champion Mika Hakkinen says Hamilton should learn to lose with dignity and should consider apologising to his Mercedes' team-mate Nico Rosberg.

[url= http://www.iltasanomat.fi/formula1/art-1288693766092.html?pos=ksk-trm-frm1-ostu ]Full story: Ilta Sanomat (in Finnish)[/url]

Not know for being talkative...

Did he also go on to say that Rosberg should learn not to reverse back onto the track when qualifying is in progress and has no chance of getting back to the start line for another lap?

seems the promised Haas F1 team are delaying to 2016 the entry,
i wonder if thats anything to do with the failure to apply a self-made cost cap? perhaps waiting for the FIA to put rules in place to do this, so made sense to wait....

Seems Caterham are on the brink now - not a great start to the season and just when do you pull the plug on after people stop seeing the brand-name and see the consistently poor results - and again, with the cost-cap not coming into effect, whats the motivation to spend tons of cash ?

Nico Rosberg takes pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix.

Oh yeah - well spotted.

Press conference body language was interesting two extremely happy F1 drivers and Lewis...

so Lewis says he is still friends and puts owness on nico to act accordingly and try and make him the bad guy of he doesn't reciprocate. ..
, lewis as always, cannot live thinking that people don't like him or he has done something wrong
if he wants to be like Senna as he always says he has a long way to go.

Oops, that looks like an expensive mess...

Certainly came apart like a clown car

Come on Lewis. 'Av I'm...

so Lewis says he is still friends and puts [b]owness[/b] on nico

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Has someone pressed the wrong button at Mercedes?

Well that was shocking TV production 🙄

Wow - who said F1 was predictable!

So it's worth cutting a corner to gain half a second, as if you do it once you get away with it!
Even though the car behind is closer than the time gained!

Wowsers!!!!

Offft

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Kin' ell...

Out of the points on the last lap!

That was a pretty spectacular end to it! 😯

Blubbing like a baby!

Wow, did I ever pick a good first race to watch, that was fantastic! Gutted for those who missed out at the end, glad everyone seems ok.

Well that was shocking TV production

That was shocking throughout, weren't it.

It's kicking off on the track, and it cuts away to a lingering shot of the crowd/pits/random hanger on.

Exciting race though.

something very strange going on with Mercedes, the same instantaneous faults.

Blimey. Check out the Red Button. Suzi's boots and Coulthard's and Jordan's trousers! Clown clothes or what?

Has Massa been taking advice from Maldonado? Make a hash of all the good passing chances before just taking out the opposition.

27G impact, ouchers

Did merc meant to push a button on lewiss car (worked) but it also transmitted to nicos? WHAT A STRANGE CO-INCIDENCE BOTH AT THE SAMETIME..

hora - Member 
Did merc meant to push a button on lewiss car (worked) but it also transmitted to nicos? WHAT A STRANGE CO-INCIDENCE BOTH AT THE SAMETIME..

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Could just be a software fault which caused the ERS to crap itself on both cars.

I guess Hamilton's subsequent brake failure could be down to driving style or just from following nico so closely causing an overheat.

Mad mad race.

Hamilton and Rosberg were running different brake balances throw in driving style and it could account for the brake failure on the other hand it could just be shit luck.

WHAT A STRANGE CO-INCIDENCE BOTH AT THE SAMETIME..

Given that it happened almost bang on mid race, I figured it more likely some sort of software bug that hit both at the same point. Interesting (from a geek POV) to find out what it actually was.

Bad luck for Hamilton to have two retirements now - though if RB and the rest can maybe start to catch them up and get between them a bit things could start to get interesting. I think I'd favour LH to be able to get through traffic more than NR. Also don't forget that it seems reasonably likely that we'll be seeing grid penalties for engine, gearbox later in the season that'll move the Mercs (and other cars) several places down the grid putting them well out of place.

Has Massa been taking advice from Maldonado? Make a hash of all the good passing chances before just taking out the opposition.

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/27758096 ]Linky[/url]

I did rather think he moved, and very late too. Shame, cause they'd both had fantastic drives, they deserved a lot better than a trip to hospital.

Did merc meant to push a button on lewiss car (worked) but it also transmitted to nicos?

Well done, Jenson. Life in the old dog yet...

i love the way "lewislovers" twist everything as a conspiracy against lewis. do you really REALLY think that mercedes would pay all that cash for lewis only to want to nobble him? really!? they have protected lewis in the past ordering nico to stay put - why nobble him now?

Lewis was told to back off and stay put as the ERS was broken and the brakes were overheating behind other cars -
but nooooooo instead wanted to enforce his "dominance" over rosberg and try and win the race. he cooked his brakes.
he threw his points away this week
his excuses will be "cos Iza racer, just like dat Senna"

Congrats to Riccardo - i wonder what he would be doing with a Merc engine in the back ?

^ Please god don't let a forum of this standard degenerate into the infantile 'my daddy is bigger than your daddy' nonsense that plagues the BBC's F1 stories.

LH's brakes failed because he was running more rearward brake bias (as per Nico's radio transmission when he asked how LH's was different and subsequent message after LH's failure to change his brake balance as far forward as possible,).

The part of the ERS system that failed was the part that used harvested when the cars where slowing down and took some of the strain off the rear brakes so LH was using his rear brakes far more heavily than NR once the system packed in.

Whislt I would much rather LH won the championship credit to NR for nursing that car home and still getting second.

As for why both systems failed simultaneously that is easy to explain - RB have developed an ERS jammer...

retro83 - Member
I guess Hamilton's subsequent brake failure could be down to driving style or just from following nico so closely causing an overheat.

Looks like it
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114349

Mr Woppit - Member

Well done, Jenson. Life in the old dog yet...

Bit of luck but some excellent fast laps in there as well. Good drive from him.

Great race over all as well, just a bit galling for Massa.

Its Nico's title. One Merc driver is consistent, quiet, gets on with it. The other seems to be slipping back into his old ways. Raw speed isn't enough Lewis. Sorry.

If it was that obvious and LH could have done something about it, the team would have been telling him to drop back from Nico to avoid the brakes failing. They didn't so it's just bad luck and clearly not LH's fault. Much like his other DNF. That people are so keen to stereotype LH as fast but stupid says a lot IMO.

What I found odd was Massa's inability to pass Vetel after he caught the front three up, he was over a second faster per lap then just had a couple of half hearted attempts to pass, I was hoping he'd breeze past with DRS 😕