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@nick101

Yes and they make it sound like Lewis was so comprehensively thrashed. In a season where he had many off-track personal struggles, he still managed to secure the same number of wins as Jenson and […]

+1 Lewis’s superiority over Jenson in 2012 was evident for all to see.

Let’s not forget that Lewis could have possibly won the final race in Brazil had he not been taken out by the Hulk; a win which went to […]

Best file this race away in the “shocker race beset by technical woes”.

Still, my money is on Mercedes winning at least one race this year.
You have to fancy them if they hit their one sweet spot a year at […]

Yes maintaining his line = clearly shifting his steering wheel left to ram into Villeneuve’s car.

+1 Credit has to go to Martin Whitmarsh letting his drivers race.

PS Martin must be hoping Carlos Slims attends every race now seeing how that managed to gee up Sergio Perez who took on a kick-a$$ attitude […]

Well Button somehow won last year’s Autosport British Driver of the Year award over Lewis Hamilton despite having a less impressive 2012 which should tell you a lot about his popularity.

Button’s celebratory note over the radio to his crew for scraping into Q3 shows how low standards have fallen at McLaren since Lewis left.

Scarcely believable that Red Bull will resort to sabotaging Webber’s car to ensure Vettel gets clean air to race in.

It is more plausible to say Webber’s car does not get the same amount of devoted attention […]

you haven heard about Austria 2001 and Austria 2002….. where some German chap was allowed to “overtake” a Brazilian bloke …..both only 6 races into the season …

As for Lewis’ pit-stop error, i think it did cost him 2nd place.

(sidenote: would be triple LOL if the McLaren mechanics actually did have a memory trip as well forgetting he is no longer McLaren’s and help […]

+++1

And now that Vettel has apologized, would he gladfully “return” a win to Webber next time they are running 1-2?
I can imagine Helmut Marko barking Vettel’s ears telling him not to even bother entertaining […]

@andae23 he did change helmets but i am not entirely sure the reason as why. I think it had something to do with the incoming rain or something and the new helmet had a more visor more suited to the wet weather. […]

@hairs

” but I don’t see that McLaren are doing worse under Martin’s tenure than they did under Ron’s.”

yes but who calls the shots at Woking? You? Me? Or Ron Dennis? So whose opinion matters more? I think […]

@hairs

“Mike Coughlan designed championship winning cars at McLaren, but his current Williams car is…. rubbish. No doubt that’s Sam’s fault too?”

Goodness me how do you arrive at that conclusion that i would […]

@hairs When were McLaren really dominant over the last 15 years? They had to scrape for their their drivers’ titles in 1998, 99 and 2008 with every single championship decided only at the final race of the […]

@carl craven

“Lewis tends to get more from a car because he notices less it’s flaws”.

It might be he is actually fully aware of the flaws but he simplys drives around them wrings more from it than Button per se.

True but Martin Whitmarsh was his acknowledged no 2 since 2004 (with a CEO rank) so unless it was a largely ceremonial role, he must have been a heavy influence behind the scenes. And his influence was hardly much […]

@hairs What about Valencia where Button had to resort to directing his engineers to copy Hamilton’s set-up so as not to repeat his inglorious Montreal performance where he was lapped by Lewis on his way to 16th […]