- 06 Jun 09, 22:33#124098
Hell man, if I hurt your tender feelings with my little joke, I sincerely offer my heartfelt apology and beg your forgiveness. I am sure that is not good enough for you, so perhaps DD can whip me a few times.
As to your precious Lewis, I hate to break this to you but race setup is beyond a 12 year old. You would know that if you had ever attempted it. Sure, he can hand dad a wrench...or even put the proper air pressure in the tires but that's about it. A 12 year old has not developed the cognitive skills and deductive reasoning to manage something as complex as setting up a race car. He could, perhaps, set toe, camber etc to specs that someone else gave him...but that's it, and that's the point of my post. You are so enamored with your dear lewis, that in his case, you wish to forgo the limitations of human children and the reason why we are not all rocket scientists at 12 years of age. It's because we don't develop that fast, it's a human restriction. It's the reason why college comes later in life.
On the other hand, you may be correct in that dear sweet Lewis possesses an intellect and brain function dwarfing mere mortals and is obviously descendant from the aliens that brought him here wrapped in his cape with an 'S' emblazoned on it......or he could be just a decent driver who once had a fantastic car and now doesn't. I dunno...could go either way I guess.
I see your point of course, you being the poster girl for impartiality. I will certainly reexamine my thinking. So after this year, after driving a car basically as bad as button has had when in Honda....and after Button has been given a car as good as Hamilton had in 2007 and 2008....do we compare number of wins to determine which is better or should we count up how many times each took a really good car and stuffed it into a parked car in pit lane? Ran over a car on the straight? Parked it off the pit lane gravel trap? Hit the pit lane speed limiter on accident? I'm just wondering when Button is going to make Lewis level mistakes and cost his team the championship...and when he does, if you will give him the same benefit of the doubt you give Lewis? Only asking so that I can get a better understanding of this blinkered thinking you speak of.
I do enjoy reading your over the top rants, however i really would recommend you calm down and do a little research before going of on a rant.
Try watching this? its taken from a BBC documentary which was released after the 2007 world championship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjRdi5zv-w
Oh and i'm the same age as Lewis and at his age i was quite adapt at helping my dad fix his car or repairing my bike or for a wider example fixing a pc.
So i'm guessing at 12 or so Lewis with the help of his dad was able to engineer and set-up a go-kart since thats what he was racing at that age.
But as usual i have to point you to the error of your ways i'm getting abit board of doing so, so do PLEASE try and research a topic before quoting me and having a rant.
Alternativly if you are unable to do that simply don't quote me or respond to my posts.
Thanks
Hell man, if I hurt your tender feelings with my little joke, I sincerely offer my heartfelt apology and beg your forgiveness. I am sure that is not good enough for you, so perhaps DD can whip me a few times.
As to your precious Lewis, I hate to break this to you but race setup is beyond a 12 year old. You would know that if you had ever attempted it. Sure, he can hand dad a wrench...or even put the proper air pressure in the tires but that's about it. A 12 year old has not developed the cognitive skills and deductive reasoning to manage something as complex as setting up a race car. He could, perhaps, set toe, camber etc to specs that someone else gave him...but that's it, and that's the point of my post. You are so enamored with your dear lewis, that in his case, you wish to forgo the limitations of human children and the reason why we are not all rocket scientists at 12 years of age. It's because we don't develop that fast, it's a human restriction. It's the reason why college comes later in life.
On the other hand, you may be correct in that dear sweet Lewis possesses an intellect and brain function dwarfing mere mortals and is obviously descendant from the aliens that brought him here wrapped in his cape with an 'S' emblazoned on it......or he could be just a decent driver who once had a fantastic car and now doesn't. I dunno...could go either way I guess.
That was a cool video Longbow thanks. You're right, it's a shame some people become hysterical about lewis when they are in possession of so few of the facts. Well they will have to live and learn! One day they will see the eror of their blinkered thinkng.
I see your point of course, you being the poster girl for impartiality. I will certainly reexamine my thinking. So after this year, after driving a car basically as bad as button has had when in Honda....and after Button has been given a car as good as Hamilton had in 2007 and 2008....do we compare number of wins to determine which is better or should we count up how many times each took a really good car and stuffed it into a parked car in pit lane? Ran over a car on the straight? Parked it off the pit lane gravel trap? Hit the pit lane speed limiter on accident? I'm just wondering when Button is going to make Lewis level mistakes and cost his team the championship...and when he does, if you will give him the same benefit of the doubt you give Lewis? Only asking so that I can get a better understanding of this blinkered thinking you speak of.
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