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[LewEngBridewell]

The less manly the better

Naughty.

This thread has gone a bit camp.

[andrew]

The less manly the better

Naughty.

This thread has gone a bit camp.

[racechick]

Will Lewis' naivity be the undoing of him? To me this is where Lewis lacks over his competitors. He's too nice and he trusts people. Take his relationship with Button.I think Lewis genuinely wants Button to do well...not at his own expense of course, but if he can help he will. I don't think this is reciprocated by Button and Lewis needs to wake up to it.
Take the last two races. Both drivers were near each other on track but not racing each other.
At Silverstone Jenson held Lewis up for a lap and allowed Grosjean to close, he then let Grosjean past easily. He was told 'don't worry about Lewis'. Did he ignore this message? Did he receive a stonger message? If not why not? We hear a meessage to Lewis saying something like 'Yes Jenson's had the message'

Now jump to Germany. Lewis is asked not to get in Jenson's way, so he jumps right out of his way and helps him against Vettel.

You need to wise up Lewis. Jenson is your team mate but he aint gonna help you even when he's out the equation. Time to get tough back.

[Hammer278]

I don't think Lewis was helping Button intentionally in Germany, he was going as fast as he could and had to overtake Vettel, so he did. Which caused Vettel to lose some time ending up with Button getting those precious tenths to come out ahead after pitstops. Button benefitted, but Lewis was taking of his own race.

But I get what you mean, and I don't think Lewis is that naive to go out of his way on track to help his teammate. I think what really urged him on in Germany was when the team radioed him telling him not to hold up Button, he let loose and sprang ahead of Vettel immediately. "I lapped you in Canada, no way are you returning the favour".

[scotty]

Take the last two races. Both drivers were near each other on track but not racing each other.
At Silverstone Jenson held Lewis up for a lap and allowed Grosjean to close, he then let Grosjean past easily. He was told 'don't worry about Lewis'. Did he ignore this message? Did he receive a stonger message? If not why not? We hear a meessage to Lewis saying something like 'Yes Jenson's had the message'

Now jump to Germany. Lewis is asked not to get in Jenson's way, so he jumps right out of his way and helps him against Vettel.

You need to wise up Lewis. Jenson is your team mate but he aint gonna help you even when he's out the equation. Time to get tough back.

At Silverstone they were directly racing, in Germany Hamilton was a lap down... so it's not really comparable.

[Ichabod]

In Germany I think after Lewis got the message to not worry about Jenson he thought " there's no way Jenson's passing me on track " and put his foot down and said stuff the tyres

[racechick]

Take the last two races. Both drivers were near each other on track but not racing each other.
At Silverstone Jenson held Lewis up for a lap and allowed Grosjean to close, he then let Grosjean past easily. He was told 'don't worry about Lewis'. Did he ignore this message? Did he receive a stonger message? If not why not? We hear a meessage to Lewis saying something like 'Yes Jenson's had the message'

Now jump to Germany. Lewis is asked not to get in Jenson's way, so he jumps right out of his way and helps him against Vettel.

You need to wise up Lewis. Jenson is your team mate but he aint gonna help you even when he's out the equation. Time to get tough back.

At Silverstone they were directly racing, in Germany Hamilton was a lap down... so it's not really comparable.

I know what you mean about the lap down thing, but neither were they racing at Silvestone. Lewis was on fresh tyres and Jenson had to pit , they were out of synch.
Probably something in the not wanting to be lapped thing.
I still think Lewis needs to wise up to other peoples ..er techniques, strategies, (there are other words I chose not to use )

[Hammer278]

Hopefully the team allows him to bring it home winning this weekend.

I had a dream last night it was bone dry and then started spitting down heavily midway and Lewis was in the lead on the very ragged edge but still keeping it on the tarmac...and the dream ended.

Hoping for a full dry race today though.

[Hammer278]

Time to get this thread on track....



That's what I call 'PACING'. Speed when it's required, one of the most measured drives I've seen from Hamilton, WELL DONE TYREMASTER!

[LewEngBridewell]

Let's hope this victory can be solidly built upon.

[racechick]

Yeeeeesssssss!!!! Magic!!

[Bladesman]

Time to get this thread on track....



That's what I call 'PACING'. Speed when it's required, one of the most measured drives I've seen from Hamilton, WELL DONE TYREMASTER!

Today proved Lewis can manage his tyres when he needs to.

[racechick]

He did it in Spain too. (It was spain wasnt it?? When he one stopped)

[racechick]

Hopefully the team allows him to bring it home winning this weekend.

I had a dream last night it was bone dry and then started spitting down heavily midway and Lewis was in the lead on the very ragged edge but still keeping it on the tarmac...and the dream ended.

Hoping for a full dry race today though.

You got it

[The Second Coming]

As thrilled as I am with today's (Hungarian GP) victory by Lewis, I'm not totally over the moon with his season-long chances based on the car he has. Yes, he blistered the entire field in qualifying and worked absolute magic with his tyre management in the race but that's what he does naturally. The problem is, the car isn't that far apart from his competitors on pure race pace. (And God help McLaren if it rains!) Lewis simply made the car do things beyond it's capabilities. As good as he is, I don't know that we can count on that for the rest of the season. The McLaren showed up with massive bits over a two week/race period but compared to Lotus' performance, McLaren need a whole raft of updates simply to be level on race pace. Otherwise I see a lot of 2nds, 3rds and 4ths in Lewis' future (this season). McLaren simply can't let up. (I'm sure they know this but the question is, are they up to the development fight?)

I'm just saying...