Comments on: How will reliability affect the title race?

By: sumedh

sumedh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:07:36 +0000

Keith : You can make a post about 3 types of mistakes
1. Car-reliability troubles ( LH : Hungary, FM : Hungary )
2. Team-personnel’s mistakes ( LH:Sepang, FM:Singapore )
3. Driver brainfades ( LH:Canada; FM:Britain )

After this; we can see; who has had most ill-luck all year

By: El Gordo

El Gordo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:09:26 +0000

@ Oliver – my comment at Post 8 was a sarcastic comment on various nutty conspiracy theories I’ve seen. Reading it back I realise the sarcasm is not overly apparent. Apologies to anyone confused by it.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:46:48 +0000

My thinking was this was an article about reliability.

@El Gordo:- you can also say Ferrari have been having reliability problems since Kimi joined them, but like your above comment, its baseless.

Going by the graph u put up Keit, it would appear the Mclaren of Hamilton is long overdue some mechanical failure. I just hope Mclaren are not saving their reliability problems for the last few races.

By: cyanide

cyanide — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:32:04 +0000

Let’s hope Hamilton doesn’t get a chance to blame the car this year. If the fight goes to the final round and neither of the contenders get a chance to blame their respective cars, Massa should be able to cream Hamilton

By: beneboy

beneboy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:07:50 +0000

@Adrian
Got to agree with you, I’d like to see this championship decided on the track & hopefully both teams will give their drivers the cars needed to compete for the last few races.

I’m finding it hard to decide who I want to win this season, as a Ferrari fan I’d like to see Massa win but after all of the questionable decisions we’ve seen from the FIA I’m also hoping that Lewis can win it too.

Obviously they can’t both win it and while I don’t like to admit it, this is probably Massa’s best & only chance of ever winning the DWC & as you say, Lewis will probably win a few more in the coming years.

Whoever does win, let’s hope it’s on the track with some great racing.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:46:46 +0000

I hope car failures don’t decide this world championship as it’s been an amazing one.

Best thing for me is that I am a fan of both Hamilton and Massa so really don’t care who wins, in fact a part of me hopes Massa does cos I think Hamilton is more likely to be in a position to do so repeatedly again. That said, I also hope if Massa wins it that he does so by more than the 6 points he gained on Hamilton at Spa, otherwise people will always say that he shouldn’t really have won it…

Three races, Two challengers, One Title….

I’m gripped (and also glad the races are all at girl-friend freindly times (Japan and China – early morning; I can leave her tucked up in bed and watch it downstairs before making her breakfast in bed and earning brownie points, Brazil – tea time; will be round at her parents and her dad will have the race on so she won’t be able to argue with that either!!)

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:37:17 +0000

Becken – ah I’d forgotten about that, thanks.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:36:36 +0000

Antifia – Partisan arguments only ever boil down to “I like Hamilton” vs “I like Massa” or similar. Sorry if you thought I came back at you a bit harshly but I was trying to be fair to all sides. I wouldn’t described myself as ‘rooting for Hamilton’, though my sympathies certainly lay with him after Spa.

Yes I do think Hamilton was affected by things beyond his control in Turkey, as you put it. I’m not ruling out that his particular driving style might have been responsible in some way, but there was a technical problem too.

By: Becken

Becken — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:35:45 +0000

Keith, McLaren has had a gearbox problem at Spa in Heikki´s car.

By: Antifia

Antifia — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:08 +0000

Hey Keith, no need to become upset – I indeed took the info (17th place, wasn’t it?)from your text. I was just stressing my point.
As for Hamilton…well…I root for Massa and I am unanbiguous about it. You rood for LH (which is alright, you should be able to support a driver like anyone of us – and you can be candid about it too). And because people support different drivers, we tease each other and throw some partisan jabs around – that is what makes the whole thing about blogging fun. So, don’t be crossed and tell me: Do you really think was LH adversely affected by things beyond his control in Turkey?