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[EwanM]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

[billindenver]

LOL, I like it!

Of course RC was trying to start a fight..or she wouldn't have posted two separate Lewis hand job threads in a row, but you have to admit...it's been a bit dull in here lately.

[stonemonkey]

Anna - funny crap to enjoy....

LG: Would it be fair to say that you simply didn’t see the red lights?

LH: “Ahhh….Well I really don’t know what happened to me. I was was comfortably in the lead and it was looking like it was going to be an easy win and we got into the pitstop. It wasn’t a great stop and I saw the two guys in front of me, and they’re about to be leaving the pitlane. And I was obviously trying to make sure I didn’t get involved with those guys. Or something. And I, Ummm, saw the red light but by the time they had stopped and I had seen the red light it was a bit late. And, Um, it’s not exactly a racing incident as such, but I think its really unfortunate."

LG: Should the team have warned you that the red lights were on at the pit exit?

LH: “Yeah, but it was a bit late. I mean it was just one of those things I guess. I mean I’m not, Umm. It’s a lot different if you crash into the wall and you’re angry with yourself. I apologise to Kimi if I, Umm, if I ruined his race, but, Umm, you know, that sort of thing happens, so….”

LG: Even Goodman was now obviously beginning to lose patience with Lewis, and then asked a very direct question in these words: “Well obviously Kimi was the other man who went out. He’s your main rival in the championship. Is that any sort of consolation to you?”

LH: “Not really. I would just rather not either of us was out. And to be honest we were so quick. I was in front. I was leading it and, Hmmm, next time…”

At this point Lewis’s McLaren minder, a man built like a bouncer but who had been listening intently to everything Lewis said, decided to bring the interview to an immediate end by first signalling Lewis to stop talking by tapping him twice on the left shoulder, and then pushing him firmly through the crowd of journalists and away from the possibility of saying anything which might do still more damage. The ecclesiastically-built Matt Bishop might have been standing on Lewis’s right and may have signalled this intervention, but I’m not certain of the identity of the figure I glimpsed there.

So Lewis felt he was still leading the race when he ran into the back of one of the two rivals who had just overtaken him in the pitstop. He felt that he “might” have ruined the race of the man who had just put in a series of blistering laps which included the fastest lap of the race, and who was one of the two in front of him. He felt that it “was just one of those things”. He really wanted everyone to know that he was the quickest man in Montreal (not true) and that he was cruising towards an easy victory (also not true). It seems that Lewis’s script, which I have always complained is rather too centred on, well Lewis actually, has no words for defeat, error, or responsibility. There was certainly no straightforward admission of error. There was a highly ambiguous and conditional apology. Lewis admitted no regrets other than for the victory that had been lost. A collision being inevitable after he had missed the red lights he then managed to avoid his secondary rival and take out his main one.

Now this was the man who knew about the use of Ferrari data by the McLaren test team. Who did not own up to this knowledge when asked to be honest by the FIA. Who travelled to the WMSC hearing in Paris with his own barrister looking very anxious. Who was finally confronted with his knowledge of the cheating by the technical investigators at the end of the year and who said to them: “Yeah, I just completely forgot to be honest, I completely forgot.”

what a driver .. or maybe .. what a persona..

It's just unfortunate Sennas feet couldn't see out the cockpit.

[Tony_sa]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

hi Ewman... I think she was a bit bored today.. felt that she needed to start some rivalry issues to keep her entertained.... think it worked cos she probably fell asleep. !! lol

[EwanM]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

hi Ewman... I think she was a bit bored today.. felt that she needed to start some rivalry issues to keep her entertained.... think it worked cos she probably fell asleep. !! lol

This could easily have been made into an interesting argument about racing driver's techniques in the rain. However it was never meant to be.

That's what Hughes wanted to get at with his article.

[vaptin]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

its fun though, no?

[EwanM]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

its fun though, no?

The whole I love Lewis V I hate Lewis debate stopped being fun years ago.

[Tony_sa]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

its fun though, no?

ya it is ... Bill if you here - i lost my pic i had of kimi showing lewis the red lights .... anyone have it. ??

[Tony_sa]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

its fun though, no?

The whole I love Lewis V I hate Lewis debate stopped being fun years ago.

I'd like to see Anna's post when she gets back and read this ...

[billindenver]

This thread is nothing more than a deliberate act to recreate the tensions which continue to loom over this board.

If racechick hadn't been so selective in her post she might well have noticed that Mark Hughes's column (on another page in this week's Autosport Magazine) gives an excellent account on Robert Kubica.

Again those members on both sides should not rise to this simple bear baiting.

its fun though, no?

ya it is ... Bill if you here - i lost my pic i had of kimi showing lewis the red lights .... anyone have it. ??

[Tony_sa]

thanx ... real classic.. kimi should put it first thing you see on his website ...

I just had a thought - with this crap in mind - am i alone in thinking that if kimi go to mclaren next season, its payback time.?
Is that perhaps why lewis prefer they keep heiki ? as opposed to taking kimi to be his team mate ??

[Gaz]

Dam that pic reminds me, i lost my pic of Massa dragging that fuel hose down the pit lane in Singapore last year, anyone got that?

[stonemonkey]

thanx ... real classic.. kimi should put it first thing you see on his website ...

I just had a thought - with this crap in mind - am i alone in thinking that if kimi go to mclaren next season, its payback time.?
Is that perhaps why lewis prefer they keep heiki ? as opposed to taking kimi to be his team mate ??

Has Lewis said that?

[Jim Riven]

[bud]

oh but that was Piquets fault


i actually prefer seeing the little pit crew dudes carrying the fuel hose back to the pits all in a line!