Looks like your going to get your wish Mr Soap.

I know it’s just a rumour and probably unlikely but I think it’d be fun getting the Top Gear team in, even if just for the British G.P., not sure they’d give the kind of pre/post-race coverage Bernie would want though.

At least with Hamilton, you have the excuse that he’s been leading the World Championship for much of the last two years. It’s natural that he (along with Massa) is going to get the lions share of the coverage – even if he hadn’t ended up with so much controversy throughout.

ITVs F1 coverage would be unbelievably better without Allen and Blundell. (Seriously, a 10 week old lemon has more charisma than Blundell. Who saw Blundells interviews as a racer and thought it would be an idea to give him a microphone?)

I do apologise.
I should, of course, have included Alonso in the list of current “top” drivers.

If anything though I think that forgeting such a good driver just shows how many talented drivers we have in F1 at the moment.

Now if we could only get them all into competitive cars for the next few years…

I know James Allen is working for the national broadcaster and has to try to talk in a way that the average man in the street can understand & also has to try to keep the interest up but he’s just so bad at it.

He seems unable to give a balanced view of anything and seems torn between his life-long love of Ferrari and his uncontrolled hero-worshiping of Lewis.
Even when he talks about other drivers or teams he always manages to bring it back to Ferrari or Lewis, even when they’re not really involved.

F1 for me does not revolve around Lewis, I want to know what all the drivers are up to yet most drivers outside of the top 4 have to crash or have a near miss for them to even get a mention by James yet he’ll happily talk about Lewis locking a wheel for 15 minutes.

The man’s a clown and I hope the BBC don’t even think about signing him.

Sorry – That turned into a bit of a rant.
I’ll try not to mention him for a while.

Oh, reeeaally?

Coulthard, Webber´s team mate, the same guy who crash at any race, defended in his column at iTV, Kimi´s right of defense at SPA:

“Clearly Kimi took a defensive line into the corner, making Lewis go the long way around – but that was his right as the lead car, and HE DID NOTHING UNFAIR.”

(http://www.itv-f1.com/Feature.aspx?Type=David_Coulthard&id=43932)

If Kimi did nothing wrong, why has not Lewis the same right?

Another point is that Coulthard is the same guy who complained about his mirrors at Australian GP in his “incident with Massa”. Coulthard could explain why is so difficult to deal with his tiny mirrors and we can understand why this could be even worst in that EXTREME WET CONDITIONS…

Oh, talking about Massa he almost pushed Fernando to outside at Nurburgring last year. Massa whom already had pushed Fernando outside the track at Barcelona´s start. Fernando was the same guy who dangerously pushed Lewis off the track at the Start of Belgium GP in 2007. After that, In the middle of the Eau Rouge, side by side with Fernando, Lewis just back off, he already knows that some drivers has died there.

Why nobody seems to remember that? Do you remember?

Did you watch the same Timo Glock in GP2/2006 against the same Lewis on Turkey race? I guess you´re not! Timo has pushed Lewis outside the track a dozen of times and in a dry track, in a sunny day, with his mirrors clean…

I do not have noticed that Lewis has complained. Do you?

In the same GP2, in Barcelona, Lewis were leading the race and fighting for the championship and his team mate, Alexandre Premat, pushed him off track and won the race. Do you know what Lewis had said after the race? “This is racing…”

I´m still waiting for you to enlighten us on Kazuki´s case at Parabolica. Tell me what you think about it…

I think you´re not guilty of be a Lewis’s basher because I´m starting to get used to read this kind of nonsense against Lewis, even when he provide us with a race to remember.

Hamilton was asked if he felt the championship was his to lose, and he replied, Kimi was the world champion so its Kimi’s championship to lose. Don’t take things out of context so you can have fun bashing a driver.

Specifically, as to Webber, little more need be said about the “width” of his nonetheless frequently passed car.

Fernando Alonso has never balked at running someone off the road, including the man he was heartily criticizing yesterday. And I recall Alonso’s ridiculous berating of Massa after he hit the Ferrari while passing it at Nurburgring.

Kimi has said little, to his credit. But there was not a word of censure after he almost ran his teammate off the road at 200 mph at Spa, hit another car from behind hard enough to lift his own clear into the air, and willfully passed under yellow. As a long time Raikkonen fan, I found all of that rather curious.

Glock’s Curva Grande move was silly, and Hamilton merely “took his line” out of the corner as modern analysts advise drivers may. Glock is not stuffing the Toyota in the fence so often these days, but he has a long way to go to editorialize on other’s driving.

A cursory review of any race will find any number of ridculous maneuevers and “avoidable accidents” that go unpunished (Nakajima must have been invisible when he smashed into DC at the Parabolica). The FIA’s selective but rare enforcement has created a law of the jungle.

Hamilton does not have to fight by the Marquis of Queensbury rules. And if he wants his titles, like Schumacher, he will have to rack up many one-finger salutes and endure much whinging from lesser drivers.

Firstly to Owen, I don’t think that Bobulon was Lewis bashing at all, although Lewis had worked his way through the field and was close at one point, increasingly James’s commentary just got so silly towards the end, James kept pushing the theories that Lewis could win even in the dying laps (4 laps to go)of the race, while at the same time saying he was dropping off the pace and that something was seriously amiss with the car. Normally mutually exclusive, I would have thought, especially in those weather conditions?

Also I do not class myself as a Lewis basher, I just think that the stewards should have looked very, very closely at his incident with Mark Weber. I would say that about any driver who had been involved doing the same thing, whoever they were, especially given his pattern of driving throughout the race. I think F1 drivers have to be supremely confident to do what they do, it would scare the beejeebas out of me to drive like they did on the weekend but there is such a fineline between confidence and arrogance & often Lewis crosses that, both in interviews and in his driving moves. If that is Lewis bashing, maybe I am guilty.

Becken: I believe that Hamilton is mentioned in this line of discussion by many, including myself, as his race & movement through the field is mentioned in Keith’s article above. My comment is to discuss and debate, not a deliberate Ham put down.

By the way, Keith, do I win a prize for predicting pre-race that the top “rivals” would not win due to rain and that Kubica would come third…

Finally I think it was so refreshing to see a fresh face on the podium and as Vettel says, to see a smaller team who works just as hard as the larger teams be rewarded for the hard work. I really liked that part of his post race reply, and agree with it, it must be hard to put in the effort but not be noticed because your team is lower down in the points table. I also just loved his “we had the balls” comment Very nice replies for someone “speechless”, imagine if he could have speech, what would he have said!

Thank you for your indulgence with such a long post

Lewis was polite and praised Sebastian using hyperbolic adjectives. Lewis drove an amazing and brave race, showing how he wants to win this championship more than Massa or Kimi.

It is funny how Lewis bashers shift any discussion to put him down. Let’s stick to the point and praise Sebastian, who won a fantastic race because this post is about that.

Even Massa has said that he can´t see anything behind him on his mirrors. Why this could be different with Lewis? Kazuki tried to overtake by the outside of parabolic, why anyone remembers that? Oh, I just guess…

Here in Brazil, the most popular F1 Blog has a plenty of F1 fans praising Lewis for his race yesterday, supporting him in the case of penalty in Spa; saying how Lewis´ race remembered them Senna´s on the old days; how they desired Lewis to be a Brazilian; how Lewis has more “balls” than Massa on a wet track…

Why we have always to read this kind of rubbish against Lewis? Give him a break!!!!