Like him or loath him. Being there to see Hamilton in person win that race, was truely breathtaking. He's not the perfect driver, he will still make a ton of mistakes and not be that dominant every race, but truely a drive like this iis something we haven't seen for so many years.
Such as Senna's 1988 Silverstone win...
I was surprised watching the taped race, that James "My reviews of GP's are merely Hamilton luvin" Allen didn't compare Lewis's drive to that again.
Not just that we had the after race interview with his dad! And he was going on about the media and the "Hell his family have been put through".
Come one he's hardly on the bread line? Suffering from the likes of a credit crunch...hardly suffering. Save the sob stories.
This title race is going to the wire. Whoever can string a couple of race wins together, I believe will end up on top. Who that will be, I can't predict. Long may that be the case!
Stunning weekend. I was pretty shocked when I heard the news about Donnington, but Im gonna look on the bright side. The BGP is safe.
I wasn't surprised to see mountains of "Lewis Fans."
Let me explain this. Though I don't doubt the many Lewis followers walking about in their roadworks red (whatever colour it is) hats were true motor sport fans. I did get the feeling alot of other fans who were here this year expecting that there was no way Lewis could lose. I mean these are the kind of people who started watching the GP like a year ago and think they know it all...
Im sorry to rant on but It really annoys me, especially when you're hearing "I'm so proud to be English not British now Lewis has won." Or even worse "what's Jackie going on about, this isn't a Scottish grand prix!"
Im sorry, this aint Soccer or Football, Motorsport isn't like this. It annoyed the hell outta me. I'm not anti English. Infact I love the UK and people from all walks of life, but seriously... These kind of people would have been "BRITISH" is Hamilton hadn't won.
Sorry, that was my little rant. Bar that it was a cracking weekend. Even though people weren't excepting my "FOREIGN" currency.
Success, sadly, means a lot of chaff attach themselves to the sport, blighting the people who have been watching Formula One for years.
Regarding the nationality thing again, the whole thing makes me laugh. Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP Deputy Leader, and Health Secretary declared on Friday evening that one side of her family is English! As for Hamilton, he's partly of Grenadan descent, so hardly white and Anglo-Saxon, then.
Ayrton Senna: WDC 1988,
1989, 1990, 1991
McLaren: WCC 1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998,
1999, 2007McLaren: WDC 1974, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2008