Comments on: Debate: Did the best man win?

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:16 +0000

Speedo, the video was posted here ages ago, and unlike the Youtube link it hasn't been deleted: Video: Did Hamilton cause his gearbox problem?

By: Evenstar

Evenstar — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:40:04 +0000

Absolutely, the best man won it fair and square. In fact, he kept his head down after he finally became one with his Ferrari at Indianapolis. In the last 3 races, Kimi hardly made any mistakes whereas the others did.

By: speedo

speedo — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:33:39 +0000

@johannes: yep, found hamilton’s strange actions on the steering-wheel on youtube,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y8DGh7Yh5V8

By: Journeyer

Journeyer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:29:15 +0000

Nice questions, Sean.

1. Renault
2. Good question… Reliability cost titles in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, and now, 2007. Ultimately, yes. After all, they were reliable in almost all the races. Just not the last 2.
3. Sadly, no. Just not enough budget. But watch them shine when Toyota merge their operations with Williams…
4. No… not yet, anyway. Expect a win from them in 2008, but not much more.
5. No. For the simple reason that Red Bull is on the way up. Watch how both they and Toro Rosso were shining these last few races.

By: silvester

silvester — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:17:39 +0000

For sure! and congrats to the team JOB WELL DONE. Massa what dedication.
Conratulations to the head of McLaren for getting results on all his efforts! He worked so hard at it and got got perfect reward for his efforts.
Alonso -great guy (I am Ferrari fan)earned much respect.
Mr. Lauda what a mouth this is century 21 what kind of a champion are you?

By: openwheelfan

openwheelfan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:57:50 +0000

I didn’t finish
5. NO

By: openwheelfan

openwheelfan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:57:11 +0000

Hey Sean you are correct on the first part!!!
You are asking the million dollar questions Maybe you should ask one at a time.
my answers (just opinions)
1. Renault
2. No on the reliability thus no on the second part
3. Yes
4. YES

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:27:14 +0000

The best man never wins. If he did, then why would our girlfriends and wives be stuck with our dumbasses? My point being – the question is a foolish one.

As long as the person with the most points (and maybe wins) gets the championship, then I’m satisfied.

The off-season has a lot of promise though.

1. Where will Alonso end up?
2. Will McLaren be able to address their reliability issues, and more importantly, can they hang with Ferrari on the fast circuits?
3. Will Williams pull a magic chassis out of the bag? One that can cause BMW to look in their mirrors?
4. Will BMW catch the McLaren/Ferrari train? They’re the best of the rest but the gap is large.
5. Will Mark Webber find a way out of his Red Bull hell?

By: Alberto

Alberto — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:24:53 +0000

What is clear is that the best team won.
Luckily they didn’t have an Italian good pilot, so they did not care about where their pilots where born.

By: BrendaninBrazil

BrendaninBrazil — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:35:37 +0000

@ johannes – A driver being told by his team to let his team mate past & win the driver’s title may be understandable from the teams point of view but is unmistakably the type of situation that the rules against “team orders” is directed at. No team cares which driver wins & which comes second unless it impacts on the drivers championship because 1 2 for a team is no difference in the manufacturer’s table regardless of the driver’s positions! If Kimi had raced & passed Massa fairly on the track I’d have no problem, but not even the most biased Ferrari fan could deny Massa did what he was told(as he himself admitted on Brazilian TV tonight!). This just shows that outlawing team orders is stupid & doesn’t work. But they are the rules at the moment & under those rules Ferrari cheated to get Kimi to win.

As for Alonso – he did a great job all year driving for a team that obviously wasn’t supporting him. Team orders one way or the other at McLaren this season at any race would have(as it turned out) decided the championship in their favour but I don’t think there is any doubt that neither driver would have agreed to them. I am with you in that I used to love McLaren but am ambiguous at best towards them after this season.

HereÅ› hoping next season is won by the best driver with the best car – no question!