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Lapping your teammate or beating your polesitter teammate to the podium from the pits

Lapping your WDC teammate
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Beating your polesitter teammate to the podium from the pits
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#410908
This question makes absolutely no sense....

Bottas isn't an option.
#410912
I think winning the 2008 Monza GP in an at best mid field car was the drive of a legend.

Yeah imagine what Ricciardo would do In that car? :thumbup:


Ricc would have won in the dry in that car
#410913
This question makes absolutely no sense....

Bottas isn't an option.


its not about legendary people its about legendary feats by a particular driver :doh:


Well in that case Maldonado is far more legendary than Hamilton ever will be, he's like a dangerous Taki Inoue.
#410915
Lewis is not Senna, and is not 'legendary'.

These things are not equal. Passing a teammate who had double bad luck in a race is not at all the same as lapping your teammate in an equal situation. Rosberg was sent down into fourth through the safety car, and then had car trouble.

If it were Hamilton in Rosberg's situation you'd be crying the Book of Job.
Last edited by Cyril Sneer Racing on 28 Jul 14, 17:28, edited 1 time in total.
#410916
This question makes absolutely no sense....

Bottas isn't an option.


its not about legendary people its about legendary feats by a particular driver :doh:


Well in that case Maldonado is far more legendary than Hamilton ever will be, he's like a dangerous Taki Inoue.


maldo is notorious more than legendary, as a few on the FBIs most wanted list are notorius :hehe:
#410921
For any of our slower members who cannot count or cannot understand the meaning of a legendary feat, here is a reminder of the legendary feat of beating your polesitter teammate to the podium

The fact that Nico Rosberg was overtaken by Jean-Eric Vergne on Lap 14 and then spent 18 laps not getting back past him says it all. In fact, apart from the pesky Safety Car, if Nico wants to attribute anything for his failure to win the Hungarian GP, it's the fact that he couldn't pass the Toro Rosso.

Hamilton wasn't hanging around when Sebastian Vettel's spin allowed him a straight shot at Vergne. He was all over the back of the Toro Ross through Turns 1, 2 and 3 and then launched one up the outside into Turn 4. Whereas Romain Grosjean made that epic move in 2013 and got penalised for running off the circuit, Hamilton kept his wheels mostly on the track. One of the brilliant moves of 2014.
Lewis got away with an early spin thanks to cold brakes, but he soon made up places, especially after the re-start when he jumped from P13 to P9. In fact it was a surprise that he didn't benefit more from coming in with the early stoppers. Before the Safety Car he was P13 and afterwards he was P13.

It was another superb drive and would have been the ultimate burn from the stern if he'd just managed to get in front of Alonso when he had the opportunity. And despite the team's failure to give him the optimum strategy, his mechanics did an amazing job to put together a chargrilled W05 after the Saturday fuel leak. That was an amazing performance on its own.


Nico put in some scintillating laps at the close to minimise the damage, but closing is one thing and passing is another and there will be uncomfortable questions about the race craft. His failure to get past Vergne, his attempted suicide with Raikkonen on Lap 60 (which thankfully Kimi saw coming), his being passed by Vergne and then Vettel and Alonso on the same lap and his failure to get past a car that he was catching at 3.5 seconds a lap being the clincher. It wasn't the last lap that was the bad one, it was the penultimate one where he failed to be on Lewis's gearbox coming through the final turn. Ricciardo, on slightly older tyres, had made the same move on Alonso look very straightforward.


:smmack:
#410927
Can we talk? Had Lewis won today's race it would have been something no one had ever done before in the sport, win from pit lane. IMO, Lewis drove to his capacity today and that's why we saw the results we did. He didn't do anything special or magical, it's what he does. That in itself is the main ingredient in "legend".

I might get some flack for this but I think Lewis could've won possibly...Maybe not, but I felt if he wasn't held up by Fernando, he would've won...I can't say for sure but we all know that compared to the Mercs, the Ferrari have not got a chance in hell and Lewis and Fernando were on similar strategies anyways so who knows
#410943
It is a difficult track and Hamilton had some early car difficulties to work through, but apart from repeated bad luck Rosberg would have won the race.


Bad luck like not being a very good racing driver? That's awful luck.
#410947
It is a difficult track and Hamilton had some early car difficulties to work through, but apart from repeated bad luck Rosberg would have won the race.

Apparently not. Apparently, had Rosberg passed Lewis, he could've came second if anything

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