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raymondu999 said 1 year ago:

@matt90 you stlil don’t know whether or not the car had more spare pace that he wasn’t using. Maybe he should’ve been a second out front in his two poles. That’s my point. Thing is, conservatism and qualifying at Monaco don’t go hand in hand. Either you have to hang the car out and risk a mistake, or you’d probably lose pole.

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matt90 said 1 year ago:

Traditionally Hamilton is normally a few tenths ahead of Button, which he has been all this year (ignoring how badly Button got on in Spain). He’s described a couple of his qualifying laps this year as brilliant- even when he wasn’t on pole, and he has a fairly high bar when it comes to describing a lap as brilliant. I really wanted them to show Hamilton’s lap yesterday before the race, but they chose Maldonado’s. He’s being more measured in the races (hard not to compared to last year), but I haven’t seen anything to suggest he might apply the same approach to quali.

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raymondu999 said 1 year ago:

he has a fairly high bar when it comes to describing a lap as brilliant

You do realise that this is the guy who has called half his races “the best race of my life,” half his quali laps “the best lap of my life,” all except this year’s car “the best car I’ve ever driven” right? Yes he said that about his 2009 car too…

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Prisoner Monkeys said 1 year ago:

@matt90 – I think most broadcasters show the pole-sitter’s lap. Although the Australian broadcast showed Romain Grosjean’s at Sepang.

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matt90 said 1 year ago:

Fair enough. Saying that probably just shows his enthusiasm for a lap then. If he wasn’t happy that he’d extracted the maximum I don’t see him describing it that highly, regardless of how exaggerated the statement probably is.

PM, yeah I was expecting them to. I was just hoping they wouldn’t as like you said I’ve seen them do differently on occasion in the past, sometimes highlighting a strong performance by a slower car.

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raymondu999 said 11 months, 2 weeks ago:

I have a weird feeling that the next driver to achieve his first victory will be Bruno Senna. I don’t find it logical nor do I rationally think it will happen – but for some reason I think that he’ll be next.

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Fer no.65 said 11 months, 2 weeks ago:

@raymondu999 maybe you’re just high? :P

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raymondu999 said 11 months, 2 weeks ago:

@fer-no65 I prefer to call it “premonition” rather than “high” – it sounds way cooler :P

My lack of any obvious intoxication by any and all substances seem to say otherwise though :P

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