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[Jabberwocky]

Lets hope Mclaren don't have as much in fighting this year.

[7UpJordan]

Lets hope Mclaren don't have as much in fighting this year.

"And take that! Oh my goodness!"

[The Ram]

Lol you Lewis Hamilton fan boys need to stop running your mouth of in order to stirr up crap

I said I do not know the exact fuel amount but I know it was low fuel. The fuel amount is not discrete. Obviously no observer can give the exact amount during a run maybe after the run when the car is weighed, but you don't have to be Einstein to know the fuel was low by looking at the times that were set previously.

Your argument is that you want to standardize and correct the track times according to exact temperature, exact humidity, exact fuel load, tyre wear and such before two drivers are compared. I have no problem with that, do that if you want. You might even see that Jenson ends up in a worse position when you take in all those considerations . All I want to know if the run was a "Glory lap" and there is similar temperature and weather and If Jenson is in front then I will do all the adjustments.

There's no real varibles in Athletics is there think about it?

Humidity, track hardness, wind speed, wind direction, weather, temperature, reaction time, altitude, time of year. That is just the variables of the environment. Then we can get in he muscle and bone system of the sprinter; It's very technical. It is the formula 1 of athletics.

Anyway, it seems you want to avoid comparisons until Bahrain.. OK.
I will get my kicks off comparing the glory runs until then.

[Gaz]

Mate you got me all wrong, I'm not really that fussed who is faster out of JB and LH I just think your trying to troll and start arguments by making up facts and using stupid comparrisons it's boring.

Also it's daft that you want Jenson to do badly when they are in the same team but your a LH fanboy so I guess that's to be expected.

Lets hope Mclaren don't have as much in fighting this year.

"And take that! Oh my goodness!"

Hardly in fighting I support Mclaren he wants one of Mclarens drivers to
do badly therfore he's against the team I support

[The Ram]

So why didn't you say that form before? If you are not fussed about who is faster then why did you come into a Lewis Vs Jenson thread?

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1. against: against, especially in a competition or court case

Original post:

who will be quicker?

I know that this is/was being discussed elsewhere lets try and keep it civil this time

I am going to bring some data into this, here are the test results. They have some of the variables you were talking about. You can read the details on the mclaren website. The two drivers had similar programs; you can tell by the times. If you take variables into account Lewis should be at the disadvantage. The only thing unknown is fuel load, but as I said before the programs for the drivers should be similar.

Date: Tuesday February 2 2010
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton
Location: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo
Track Length: 4.051km
Weather: Cold in the morning, but dry and sunny all day
Track temperature: 31.7°C
Air temperature: 12.8°C
Laps run today: 108
Kilometres covered today: 438km
Best lap time today: 1m12.256s at 14:3

Date: Wednesday February 3 2010
Drivers: Jenson Button
Location: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo
Track Length: 4.051km
Weather: Cold in the morning, but dry and sunny all day
Track temperature: 32.2°C
Air temperature: 13.4°C
Laps run today: 82
Kilometres covered today: 332km
Best lap time today: 1m12.951s at 13:39

Date: Wednesday February 10 2010
Drivers: Jenson Button
Location: Circuito de Jerez
Track Length: 4.428 km
Weather: Dry to start, with drizzle for the rest of the day
Track temperature: 14°C
Air temperature: 13°C
Laps run today: 67
Kilometres covered today: 297km
Best lap time today: 1m24.947 at 09.44

Date: Thursday February 11 2010
Drivers: Jenson Button
Location: Circuito de Jerez
Track Length: 4.423km
Weather: ry and sunny all day with occasional blustery winds
Track temperature: Maximum 34.4°C
Air temperature: Maximum 15.7°C
Laps run today: 83
Laps run in total at test: 150 (83 today/67 yesterday)
Kilometres covered today: 367km
Kilometres covered in total at test: 664km (367 today/297 yesterday)
Best lap time today: 1m20.618s at 12:56
Best lap time of the test: 1m20.618s
Drivers for tomorrow: Lewis Hamilton
Duration of test: Four days (February 12-13)
Next Test: Jerez (February 17-20)

Date: Friday February 12 2010
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton
Location: Circuito de Jerez
Track Length: 4.423km
Weather: Cold but dry at the start of the morning, quickly growing overcast. Started raining around late morning and persisted until the end of running
Track temperature: 15.0°C
Air temperature: 9.6°C
Laps run today: 68
Kilometres covered today: 300km
Best lap time today: 1m23.985 at 09:39

Date: Saturday February 13 2010
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton
Location: Circuito de Jerez
Track Length: 4.423km
Weather: Damp and drizzly at the start of the day. Conditions slowly dried out until the circuit was dry at the very end of the day.
Track temperature: 10.4°C (maximum)
Air temperature: 12.0°C (maximum)
Laps run today: 113
Laps run in total at test: 331 (Jenson 67/83; Lewis 68/113)
Kilometres covered today: 500
Kilometres covered in total at test: 1464 (Jenson 297/367; Lewis 300/500)
Best lap time today: 1m19.583s
Best lap time of the test: 1m19.583s (Lewis, Saturday)
Drivers for tomorrow: -
Duration of test: Four days (February 10-13)
Next Test: Jerez (February 17-20)

You see, Jenson is 1 second behind even considering external conditions. You can say we don't know the exact fuel load, but a low fuel run HAS TO BE in there. That is why I a can use Hamilton's glory run of 1:19.583s as a benchmark. Looking on the weather forecast for next week the conditions are going to be similar enough. The only big issue is if they bring upgrades. If so, I will just use Hamilton's new time as a benchmark for Button.

[Jensonb]

Do we even have to respond to this guy? His posts are so absurd it's not even worth the effort, because everyone already knows he's talking out his bottom and we're never going to convince him he's wrong - he's an ideologue, plain and simple.

[Big Azza]

Well... this thread is:

a) A waste of space
b) meandering

[ivey]

Don't you have anything better to do? You only have to wait for the season begin and it's quite obvious that Lewis might be quicker in the beginning because he's used to the car and everything. We can start comparing these to in the middle of the season. Maybe I'm wrong, but there's no point in arguing before the season has begun, it's alllll speculation.

[headless]

Don't you have anything better to do? You only have to wait for the season begin and it's quite obvious that Lewis might be quicker in the beginning because he's used to the car and everything. We can start comparing these to in the middle of the season. Maybe I'm wrong, but there's no point in arguing before the season has begun, it's alllll speculation.

Somet to do though

[Gaz]

So why didn't you say that form before? If you are not fussed about who is faster then why did you come into a Lewis Vs Jenson thread?

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1. against: against, especially in a competition or court case

Because i like a debate that uses solid facts. Yet your just pulling crap out of thin air and then gloating and your doing it not for the purpse of intelligent debate your doing to to wind up Jenson Button or Mclaren Fans.

I'll happly discuss who will be faster with you but your daft comments after your alledged "facts" just scream Fanboy.

If you read most of the comments people are saying "yeah Lewis will be faster but Jenson might have better car mangement"

You see, Jenson is 1 second behind even considering external conditions. You can say we don't know the exact fuel load, but a low fuel run HAS TO BE in there. That is why I a can use Hamilton's glory run of 1:19.583s as a benchmark. Looking on the weather forecast for next week the conditions are going to be similar enough. The only big issue is if they bring upgrades. If so, I will just use Hamilton's new time as a benchmark for Button.

Who says a low fuel run has to be in there also we don't know the track temp At the time of the lap, or even the most important factor was it fresh rubber.

Jenson might of had a low fuel run on used rubber then all your data is pointless.

You might not even know if they bring upgrades they might of stuck upgrades on Lewis's car on the saturday for his run your don't know so stop acting like you do.

[Ineluke]

When it's said and done the talking will be done on the track,then their will be no excuses from anyone.

I personally have a feeling how it will go but ill wait to gloat then.

[ivey]

Can we compare these two from the beginning of the season, or from the mid-season? Jenson has to "live in" and get comfortable in there, but on the other hand Lewis got off wonderfully in 2007.

[Ineluke]

Can we compare these two from the beginning of the season, or from the mid-season? Jenson has to "live in" and get comfortable in there, but on the other hand Lewis got off wonderfully in 2007.

Yes we can,it starts from the very first race,after that their is know excuse.

[vaptin]

First off, I'm not a Jenson fan, one doesn't have to be to argue against you.

Second off, you [ram] missed my point, its testing and the times are really not worth much- its about data, feedback from the car, setting up, drivers getting used to the new cars etc.

You seem to want to demand and use this as evidence that Lewis is "winning", my analogy with the Ferrari's topping time in Valencia was to try and point out to you that these times don't just suddenly become significant as soon as Hamilton comes top. If you want to say who out of Jenson and Lewis is better at this stage you should try and find out whose feedback is more helpful to developing and making the car faster.

[Jensonb]

Can we compare these two from the beginning of the season, or from the mid-season? Jenson has to "live in" and get comfortable in there, but on the other hand Lewis got off wonderfully in 2007.

True, but then you have to factor in that Lewis had been with McLaren for a while at that point. It's really like comparing apples and oranges.