- 17 Jun 09, 13:24#127214
That type of comment was the reason I started disliking him. To call out an experienced driver like that is complete BS. A driver brakes early for a lot of reasons...brakes are fading, trying to save his tires, trying to upset the rhythm the guy behind him, aero is screwed up....there is just no reason for an amateur to insult someone like that in the press, let alone a professional. That was when he needed a professional manager to smack him upside his head and tell him he was alienating fans with comments like that. Instead, he had his father who was giving him the "That's my boy, you'll get inside his head with that one" line of crap.
If a driver is going to call out other drivers like that, he had best be a Schumacher or a Senna and be able to back it up with flawless drives....which Hamilton is far from. I have yet to see hamilton string together 3 or 4 flawless drives. He always seems to follow a great performance with a complete bonehead rookie screwup. In that regard, Button has surpassed him easily with this year's string of drives.
"Q. But he was braking much earlier than you?
LH: Well, that's his driving, that's all. That is how he drives. If you don't have the balls to brake late then that is your problem! At the end of the day, in those situations it is the driver who can feel the grip more and put the car more on the edge. And I know I am great in those conditions. I felt the grip more than him, I knew where to place my car and I did place it in different positions to him and I found the grip."
That type of comment was the reason I started disliking him. To call out an experienced driver like that is complete BS. A driver brakes early for a lot of reasons...brakes are fading, trying to save his tires, trying to upset the rhythm the guy behind him, aero is screwed up....there is just no reason for an amateur to insult someone like that in the press, let alone a professional. That was when he needed a professional manager to smack him upside his head and tell him he was alienating fans with comments like that. Instead, he had his father who was giving him the "That's my boy, you'll get inside his head with that one" line of crap.
If a driver is going to call out other drivers like that, he had best be a Schumacher or a Senna and be able to back it up with flawless drives....which Hamilton is far from. I have yet to see hamilton string together 3 or 4 flawless drives. He always seems to follow a great performance with a complete bonehead rookie screwup. In that regard, Button has surpassed him easily with this year's string of drives.