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[cap-dude]

Lewis in Silverstone. I think that McLaren will be a dog to drive around silverstone. Not to mention, Kovy is damn fast around Silverstone.

[headless]

Jenson would be better, and moore gracious to the fans. All the fans who have stuck with him over the years.

[racechick]

The best for Silverstone would be a British one two. Lewis then Jenson
Yes the McLaren will struggle so not likely. Lewis is good round Silverstone but that car on that track-he wont be able to make it up.

[Robert182]

I'd obv perfer to see Lewis make it 2 in a row.

After silverstone 2008 he deserved it.

I mean he wasn't just good then he was amazing.

100% agree , id have to say lewis be win but i think it wud be cool to see brawn win ...remeber rubens last year

[headless]

Yeah JB 1st, RB 2nd. Vettel 3rd.

[racechick]

Yeah JB 1st, RB 2nd. Vettel 3rd.

Are we talking what you'd like or what you expect?

[Gaz]

Lewis in Silverstone. I think that McLaren will be a dog to drive around silverstone. Not to mention, Kovy is damn fast around Silverstone.

Yeh but thats two races time isn't it!

look at what happened to toyota in two races

Bahrain - P1 Qualify
Spain - 6th
Monaco - Last


Ferrari

Bahrain 8th
Spain 4th
Monaco 2nd

Formula 1 continues to change race by race, Mclaren have updates for turkey and prob for silverstone who knows how effective they might be.

We keep hearing McLaren staff say "the car is good but theres just something small wrong with it" if they fix that then there's no reason why we can't see a win for Lewis in silverstone.

Although its looking increasingly unlikely i hope to see a few race wins from Mclaren this season even if he's not challenging for the title.

[racechick]

Lewis in Silverstone. I think that McLaren will be a dog to drive around silverstone. Not to mention, Kovy is damn fast around Silverstone.

Yeh but thats two races time isn't it!

look at what happened to toyota in two races

Bahrain - P1 Qualify
Spain - 6th
Monaco - Last


Ferrari

Bahrain 8th
Spain 4th
Monaco 2nd

Formula 1 continues to change race by race, Mclaren have updates for turkey and prob for silverstone who knows how effective they might be.

We keep hearing McLaren staff say "the car is good but theres just something small wrong with it" if they fix that then there's no reason why we can't see a win for Lewis in silverstone.

Although its looking increasingly unlikely i hope to see a few race wins from Mclaren this season even if he's not challenging for the title.

I really hope they find that little key and unlock it for Silverstone. That would be mega! i read an article (cant rememeber what or where) and it was about an old engineer. he said-words to the effect of - McLarens current engineers/designers are used to looking at mega effort for miniscule improvement, thats the way F1 has been recently; if they were from a previous era they would have a different mindset and the problem with the mclaren would be easily sorted. He intimated it was an easy fix and he intimated he had a pretty good idea what it was. COME ON MCLAREN- Think outside the box!!

[Denthúl]

Lewis in Silverstone. I think that McLaren will be a dog to drive around silverstone. Not to mention, Kovy is damn fast around Silverstone.

We keep hearing McLaren staff say "the car is good but theres just something small wrong with it" if they fix that then there's no reason why we can't see a win for Lewis in silverstone.

There seems to be a difference between the McLaren and Ferrari cases, though. The Ferrari just seemed to be a mediocre package that could have done with some work. Their early-season results were very much worse on paper than they should have been due to poor reliability and combinations of team/driver mistakes. Raikkonen could have scored a podium in Melbourne, Massa could have finished much higher up the grid if there hadn't been that qualifying mistake in Malaysia, he was running as high as third in China before the car hit problems and he should have had fourth in Spain rather than sixth. Similarly, Raikkonen has struggled with KERS all throughout the season so far and I can't think that better reliability may have helped him score a couple more points here and there.

On the other hand, the McLaren car is probably the worse package but some early-season luck and good driving, mostly from Hamilton, saw them score more points than Ferrari. However, their car is fundamentally flawed in the aerodynamics area and usually, when things like that happen, they don't come back in to contention unless everything goes right for them (see Renault's 2008 transformation, which although quite impressive did rely on a bit of luck at times). They'll probably be back winning by the end of the season, but the MP4-24 never had any chance of becoming a title-contending car within a twelve-month period. At least, not without compromising the MP4-25 in the same way as the extra work put in to the MP4-23 did to its successor.

That's my view on it, anyway.

[headless]

Yeah JB 1st, RB 2nd. Vettel 3rd.

Are we talking what you'd like or what you expect?

I am expecting.

[darwin dali]

Yeah JB 1st, RB 2nd. Vettel 3rd.

Are we talking what you'd like or what you expect?

I am expecting.

And who if I may ask put that bun in your oven?

[racechick]

I think this might be Rubens race- he goes well at Silverstone, remember 2003, even Juany-babe couldnt catch him!!

Also think Webber will show well and one of the Ferrari's might get in the mix (the other one will have wrong tyres, bodged pitstop,no petrol, engine blow...or something like that)

[Denthúl]

I think this might be Rubens race- he goes well at Silverstone, remember 2003, even Juany-babe couldnt catch him!!

Also think Webber will show well and one of the Ferrari's might get in the mix (the other one will have wrong tyres, bodged pitstop,no petrol, engine blow...or something like that)

Unfortunately, Rubens is harder on his tyres than Jenson. It could work against him. :/

[Hanwombat]

Ditto Denthul, he is much harsher, he isn't going to get it, though it would be nice for him.

[7UpJordan]

Ditto Denthul, he is much harsher, he isn't going to get it, though it would be nice for him.

I think it's not so much as Rubens being harsh on his tyres, but Jenson being having a smoother driving technique.