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[racechick]

Don't believe all you read in the newspapers!!

Anyway, not that bothered so long as he's fighting fit for Monza

[Zekenwolf]

Hamilton himself has said he prefers a neutral car. It's just he generally deals well with oversteer because of his quick reactions and so now has a reputation for preferring that.

Staying with Monza, will he or anyone else get much opportunity to use oversteer? Perhaps through the first chicane but would oversteer not slide the rear end of the car in the Parabolica?

[CookinFlat6]

Hamilton himself has said he prefers a neutral car. It's just he generally deals well with oversteer because of his quick reactions and so now has a reputation for preferring that.

Staying with Monza, will he or anyone else get much opportunity to use oversteer? Perhaps through the first chicane but would oversteer not slide the rear end of the car in the Parabolica?

I dont think oversteer is an option on the steering wheel like kers. I am not sure drivers 'get the opportunity to use oversteer' in that sense.

Oversteer is what you get when a car stops going around a corner like a train, and starts complaining and threatening to do its own thing. If the driver can let the car do what it wants a little bit yet keep control then he is ok with a car that tends towards oversteer. This will ofcourse mean that its setup to handle the mix of sectors on the lap as fast as possible and on this corner it wants to lose rear grip, but ofcourse the driver is ok with that.

Neutral handling and balance is generally a good starting point for most corners, however the special drivers can handle corners where the car threatens to spin off the road allowing the car to be setup faster round the other calmer corners

Heres a good start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understeer_and_oversteer

[CookinFlat6]

Don't believe all you read in the newspapers!!

Anyway, not that bothered so long as he's fighting fit for Monza

It might be the best thing for Lewis if Nicole Sheerteaser is saying its not happening, hopefully we will see more 'I'll show her whos the best' driving. I think we crossed the main junction of him feeling loss and are now into 'lets exorcise it out on the track'

[Jabberwocky]

Hamilton himself has said he prefers a neutral car. It's just he generally deals well with oversteer because of his quick reactions and so now has a reputation for preferring that.

Staying with Monza, will he or anyone else get much opportunity to use oversteer? Perhaps through the first chicane but would oversteer not slide the rear end of the car in the Parabolica?

I dont think oversteer is an option on the steering wheel like kers. I am not sure drivers 'get the opportunity to use oversteer' in that sense.

Oversteer is what you get when a car stops going around a corner like a train, and starts complaining and threatening to do its own thing. If the driver can let the car do what it wants a little bit yet keep control then he is ok with a car that tends towards oversteer. This will ofcourse mean that its setup to handle the mix of sectors on the lap as fast as possible and on this corner it wants to lose rear grip, but ofcourse the driver is ok with that.

Neutral handling and balance is generally a good starting point for most corners, however the special drivers can handle corners where the car threatens to spin off the road allowing the car to be setup faster round the other calmer corners

Heres a good start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understeer_and_oversteer

Because no one has ever used oversteer to help car rotation.

Sadly I think we have seen the end of arse out driving for a while because of the current tyres.

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[Zekenwolf]

Sadly I think we have seen the end of arse out driving for a while because of the current tyres.

Try telling that to Ricciardo. The poor guy has no choice.

[Jabberwocky]

Lol

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[racechick]

[Zekenwolf]

Now that Ricciardo has been confirmed to go to Red Bull for 2014, the only way he'll fit into Newey's slimline seats is to drive with his arse out.

[andrew]

I reckon he could win a couple races, but only by a nose.

[What's Burning?]

makes sense, Lewis has won a few by the hair on his chinny-chin-chin.

[1Lemon]

makes sense, Lewis has won a few by the hair on his chinny-chin-chin.

And what stupid hair on his chinny-chin-chin he has

In terms of Overseer, why would they want that, it ruins tyres.

[CookinFlat6]

makes sense, Lewis has won a few by the hair on his chinny-chin-chin.

And what stupid hair on his chinny-chin-chin he has

In terms of Overseer, why would they want that, it ruins tyres.

I think thats why its usage now is limited to only the drivers who can gain benefit whilst inducing it for the shortest amount of time, i.e lightening reactions. This allows them to carry the most speed, brake latest

[bud]

Nice interview with Ron on Lewis.

In a frank interview, Ron Dennis has revealed that he didn't try to stop Lewis Hamilton from leaving McLaren at the end of last season.

The 2008 World Champion ended his long association with the Woking squad by signing a long-term deal with rivals Mercedes, but before he put pen to paper McLaren fans had hoped that his former team boss Dennis would convince him to stay.

However, McLaren executive chairman Dennis says he didn't stand in Hamilton's way as he felt it was "a necessary part of his maturation".

"I recently read a very nice quote from Lewis in which he said that, unlike other drivers who had joined McLaren once they'd already raced in F1, his apprenticeship with the team in his youth meant that he was a seed that had grown within McLaren, which I thought was an extremely eloquent way of putting it," he said on the McLaren website.

"Lewis knows that he's part of the McLaren family and that, like that seed, he's grown deep roots within our organisation.

"Last year I didn't seriously seek to prevent his efforts to explore new pastures with the Mercedes AMG F1 team - perhaps it was a necessary part of his maturation - but I'll always remember his time with us very fondly, just as I'm very proud of having been McLaren's CEO and team principal when he became World Champion with us in 2008."

Dennis was the one who brought Hamilton to McLaren and he also handed him a race seat in 2007, and the Briton quickly paid him back as he finished second in his debut season and then went on to claim the title the following year.

"I don't think anyone could have predicted the impact he'd make on F1 when he first arrived," Dennis added. "Certainly, although we'd signed him on the basis that he'd be quick, we'd anticipated that his first season would be an apprenticeship, and that he'd be learning on the job, and that there would inevitably therefore be mistakes and errors.

"The fact that he adapted so quickly was not only a mark of his hunger and ability, but also a tribute to the quality of the education and support that McLaren had spent so many years providing for him. While it wouldn't be unfair to call Lewis 'an overnight sensation' in F1 - and many understandably did - we at McLaren know that it took many years of unseen hard work to make him one."

[What's Burning?]

Sounds like a relationship that transcended business.