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[What's Burning?]

Nothing in those quotes makes what he said a lie even if there is an ulterior motive to it. I'm not convinced that there isn't a clause in the Mercedes/Mclaren engine contract that's making everyone at McLaren a bit skittish.

Do you really think they would have signed a contract that would have these clauses based around good faith, or dodgy clauses about the last year of engine use?

Do you really think that you can anticipate every possible outcome in a deal? That McLaren thought their star driver would leave them for a competing team that also happens to supply them with their engines? That they now have to pay Mercedes a lot of money for engines they were previously getting for free?

It's not McLaren, I'm thinking about it's Mercedes and it's their IP so why would they not have something in a contract specifies no other manufacturer to have access to their engine/systems? So what do you think Honda will have for a year?

I'm speaking purely from a business standpoint. I don't know any more or any less about what's in the contract than you... but in the corporate environment, double in such a competitive environment as F1, good faith come in pretty low on the priority list.

[1Lemon]

Nothing in those quotes makes what he said a lie even if there is an ulterior motive to it. I'm not convinced that there isn't a clause in the Mercedes/Mclaren engine contract that's making everyone at McLaren a bit skittish.

Do you really think they would have signed a contract that would have these clauses based around good faith, or dodgy clauses about the last year of engine use?

So why would they not have something in a contract specifies no other manufacturer to have access to their engine/systems? So what do you think Honda will have for a year?

I'm not doubting that they have that, but I mean if McLaren are following their contract and not showing Honda everything, then they should have noting to be skittish about.

[Hammer278]

How will Mercedes have assurance of that.^

[What's Burning?]

How will Mercedes have assurance of that.^

It was quoted that McLaren 'assured' Mercedes it wouldn't happen. The corporate equivalent of trust me... I won't come in your mouth.

[darwin dali]

How will Mercedes have assurance of that.^

It was quoted that McLaren 'assured' Mercedes it wouldn't happen. The corporate equivalent of trust me... I won't come in your mouth.

[racechick]

Some pictures here showing the difference between Rosberg and Lewis' steering wheel. The wheel was one of the first things Lewis altered when he joined Mercedes, simplifying the amount of controls. It looks like Rosberg kept the original.
http://bit.ly/14MWoTg

[1Lemon]

Some pictures here showing the difference between Rosberg and Lewis' steering wheel. The wheel was one of the first things Lewis altered when he joined Mercedes, simplifying the amount of controls. It looks like Rosberg kept the original.
http://bit.ly/14MWoTg

Is that because Hamilton is simpler?

[racechick]

Some pictures here showing the difference between Rosberg and Lewis' steering wheel. The wheel was one of the first things Lewis altered when he joined Mercedes, simplifying the amount of controls. It looks like Rosberg kept the original.
http://bit.ly/14MWoTg

Is that because Hamilton is simpler?

He was used to a simpler wheel at Mclaren and thought some of the dials were unnecessary.

[andrew]

Some pictures here showing the difference between Rosberg and Lewis' steering wheel. The wheel was one of the first things Lewis altered when he joined Mercedes, simplifying the amount of controls. It looks like Rosberg kept the original.
http://bit.ly/14MWoTg

Is that because Hamilton is simpler?

[Hammer278]

Some pictures here showing the difference between Rosberg and Lewis' steering wheel. The wheel was one of the first things Lewis altered when he joined Mercedes, simplifying the amount of controls. It looks like Rosberg kept the original.
http://bit.ly/14MWoTg

Is that because Hamilton is simpler?

He was used to a simpler wheel at Mclaren and thought some of the dials were unnecessary.

He's got a point...too many buttons are just unnecessary if it doesn't really help cut lap time. I wonder why Merc hasn't picked up on it, maybe a few of those are "what if" buttons which a driver most probably won't need during a race except for extraordinary circumstances.

[racechick]

Some pictures here showing the difference between Rosberg and Lewis' steering wheel. The wheel was one of the first things Lewis altered when he joined Mercedes, simplifying the amount of controls. It looks like Rosberg kept the original.
http://bit.ly/14MWoTg

Is that because Hamilton is simpler?

He was used to a simpler wheel at Mclaren and thought some of the dials were unnecessary.

He's got a point...too many buttons are just unnecessary if it doesn't really help cut lap time. I wonder why Merc hasn't picked up on it, maybe a few of those are "what if" buttons which a driver most probably won't need during a race except for extraordinary circumstances.

I remember reading something by him when he first went there. He said there's so much you can change now in the car. You don't need anything that's not essential. Maybe Mercedes will rethink the wheel at the end of he season. Bu if Rosberg is happy with it, then that's ok.

[What's Burning?]

Which one's the horn?

[Jabberwocky]

it is next to the handbrake

[CookinFlat6]

Some pictures here showing the difference between Rosberg and Lewis' steering wheel. The wheel was one of the first things Lewis altered when he joined Mercedes, simplifying the amount of controls. It looks like Rosberg kept the original.
http://bit.ly/14MWoTg

Is that because Hamilton is simpler?

genius is the ability to make simpler something others are unable to

i.e. it might take a normal scholar 15 lines of logic to arrive at the same conclusion that a genius would take 5 lines for. So if one driver can complete a race with half the buttons yet achieve all the same pre programmed routines in the same time.........

[andrew]

Genius is only a kick in the backside away from insanity.