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[What's Burning?]

You and your bloody acronyms Mansell? Nah, he did pretty damn well back in the 80's, the last time the racing was similar to this...

Those are initials not acronyms.

[darwin dali]

You and your bloody acronyms Mansell? Nah, he did pretty damn well back in the 80's, the last time the racing was similar to this...

Those are initials not acronyms.

IWTTS - DD
(I was thinking the same - DD)

[Jabberwocky]

This weekend I lost respect for some team managers. If your going to send your team into somewhere bad then you should lead by example. Frank Williams turned up to his 1st race of the year.

Ron Dennis was about (I know he is not the team manager but he is still the head of the group)

Then we see the deputy manager at Force India... Where was Mallay (spl)

[racechick]

Never thought id say this but

I now want lewis to leave mclaren

It is sad, but I feel the same. I wanted him to be at mcLaren all his career and win and lose together with them. In 2009 when the car was awful it didnt seem as bad as now. He just doesnt fit in that team anymore.

[bud]

Never thought id say this but

I now want lewis to leave mclaren

It is sad, but I feel the same. I wanted him to be at mcLaren all his career and win and lose together with them. In 2009 when the car was awful it didnt seem as bad as now. He just doesnt fit in that team anymore.

I hope he leaves so i don't have to put up with the Lewis Loonies anymore!

[What's Burning?]

Bud... come on, admit it... you were a little embarrassed for McLaren yesterday weren't you?

[vaptin]

Never thought id say this but

I now want lewis to leave mclaren

It is sad, but I feel the same. I wanted him to be at mcLaren all his career and win and lose together with them. In 2009 when the car was awful it didnt seem as bad as now. He just doesnt fit in that team anymore.

I hope he leaves so i don't have to put up with the Lewis Loonies anymore!

Paul Di Resta to McLaren?

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Anyway, politics aside the race itself was grand. Great to see another team make the step up to challenging for the top setup (Lotus), 4 races won by 4 different teams. Didn't enjoy the flash backs from Vettel though.

Maybe Lotus should've swapped Kimi and Grosjean (who had a very good race, seems to have cooled down his driving without compromising his talent) earlier rather than have Kimi lose some time there. But like the boss said, they finially have a race without reliability or misfortune and get a good result.

Poor stuff from McLaren, but I doubt it will effect them for too long.

A decent performance from Massa, finally! Not too far behind Alonso, who had another solid race, a great start from both drivers, but then the lack of pace showed up.

Really good result for Force India, and good driving from Paul, not seen much from Hulkenburg yet though.

Sauber need to sort their race strategy out, they keep going backwards.

The issue with Rosberg wasn't the change of direction or number of moves it was forcing another driver off the circuit. It was clear what he should've done, move to the inside but leave a space, not take his car to the edge of the circuit, it doesn't matter if the car behind wasn't fully alongside, they still had to move further to the right (and off the track) to avoid hitting Rosberg, like Alonso said, if there had been a wall there, I bet the decision would've been different, I can't see the rules differentiating for that, the track limits are the white lines. He wouldn't have pulled that stunt if he wasn't expecting the driver behind to pull alongside.

[bud]

Bud... come on, admit it... you were a little embarrassed for McLaren yesterday weren't you?

Yeah but thats sport isn't it? you win some you lose some. I'm not a Lewis fan asking for him to leave when things aren't going well. Thats embarrassing!

[What's Burning?]

Bud... come on, admit it... you were a little embarrassed for McLaren yesterday weren't you?

Yeah but thats sport isn't it? you win some you lose some. I'm not a Lewis fan asking for him to leave when things aren't going well. Thats embarrassing!

Yeah, neither am I, and I do hope McLaren keep their current driver lineup, as driver skill is not what they're lacking currently.

About the Rosberg thing, the stewards have spoken and there's no sense in having another SV/NK type argument for the next three weeks on this. The problem I have with it is as it's been pointed out there are regulations to prevent reckless/dangerous driving and that should have been interpreted here.

Fine, Lewis was not alongside him when he moved, but he knew the overtake speed was there so that move was designed to either have Lewis put the brakes on and abandon the move, or to HAVE to go off the race course and either way it would foil that pass. Nico calculated wrong on both accounts and what he did to Lewis there was force Lewis into a dangerous situation. At the very least it called for a reprimand (you know like they were liberally handing out last year). I'm glad Nico did it twice because it underscored the ridiculousness of the situation.

I'm looking forward to testing and then Europe. Goobye Bahrain GP, hopefully forever.

The stands were emptier than in Turkey or Korea but the official government figures were that it was sold out.

...and where were the celebrities?

[racechick]

Bud... come on, admit it... you were a little embarrassed for McLaren yesterday weren't you?

Yeah but thats sport isn't it? you win some you lose some. I'm not a Lewis fan asking for him to leave when things aren't going well. Thats embarrassing!

I understand that. Thats why I said I didnt feel like this when the 2009 car performed badly. Its not just about the bad performace at the weekend, things have been far worse. He just doesnt seem to fit in at the current McLaren.

[scotty]

You and your bloody acronyms Mansell? Nah, he did pretty damn well back in the 80's, the last time the racing was similar to this...

Those are initials not acronyms.

Oh well, the finer points of the English language aren't really my area

[What's Burning?]

You and your bloody acronyms Mansell? Nah, he did pretty damn well back in the 80's, the last time the racing was similar to this...

Those are initials not acronyms.

Oh well, the finer points of the English language aren't really my area

EIAATAE- everything is an acronym to an engineer.

[cheekybru]

I understand that. Thats why I said I didnt feel like this when the 2009 car performed badly. Its not just about the bad performace at the weekend, things have been far worse. He just doesnt seem to fit in at the current McLaren.

Yup, every since Ron left if i was him id feel undervalued by the team big time, No point staying there for historys sake think he needs a fresh start*

*This comment will be erased from my memory if the team sorts their lives out and he goes on to win a great world championship this year

[bud]

I understand that. Thats why I said I didnt feel like this when the 2009 car performed badly. Its not just about the bad performace at the weekend, things have been far worse. He just doesnt seem to fit in at the current McLaren.

Yeah 2009 Heikki was well and truly being made a number 2 driver with updates going to Lewis. Some say fair enough he was the world champion.

I think thats your problem. you Lewis fans are used to him being the centre of attention and cannot get your fan boyish minds around the fact McLaren have tried to make things as even for Jenson joining the team as possible. But to think that the McLaren team would deliberately screw up just to hinder Lewis is just idiocy!

*This comment will be erased from my memory if the team sorts their lives out and he goes on to win a great world championship this year

Yeah I hope he does too and I'll be grinning and laughing at you lot that called for him to leave! You're not fans!

[scotty]

You and your bloody acronyms Mansell? Nah, he did pretty damn well back in the 80's, the last time the racing was similar to this...

Those are initials not acronyms.

Oh well, the finer points of the English language aren't really my area

EIAATAE- everything is an acronym to an engineer.

IDKWTFIGON.