Anyone else worried about Lewis?
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I suspect even Lewis knows there is something not right at Mercedes but just about managed not to come out and say it at the post race interview. I would be surprised if he stays next year despite contracts and all that. Would love to see him swap with Vettel so Mercedes could get what they want, German car with german drivers.
Awful start by him today. You could see the wet patch on his starting line and the commentators even mentioned it beforehand. It was clearly a problem, only made worse by such a terrible start.
I honestly think last week was the end of any title chance for Lewis. Something like that does a lot of psychological damage to you.
Looking forward to 2017 with a new look to the cars.
I honestly think last week was the end of any title chance for Lewis. Something like that does a lot of psychological damage to you.
Looking forward to 2017 with a new look to the cars.
Oh well, that's that :lol:
I'm happy in the knowledge Lewis would be world champion but for the engine failure at Malaysia, so it was taken out of his hands.
He done very well today and I had no problem with the 'backing up'. If Nico was that bothered, why didnt he overtake Lewis?
Nevertheless, Well done Nico on your first world championship
I'm happy in the knowledge Lewis would be world champion but for the engine failure at Malaysia, so it was taken out of his hands.
He done very well today and I had no problem with the 'backing up'. If Nico was that bothered, why didnt he overtake Lewis?
Nevertheless, Well done Nico on your first world championship
North West Surrey
ben g said:
Agree with most of what you said, but you could also say his poor starts and failure to turn up at Baku and Singapore cost him the title as much as the engine failure!
And I say that as a dedicated Lewis fan BTW.
Credit to Nico for keeping pushing after 2014 and 2015 not going his way - I'm genuinely pleased for him, even if I would have preferred Lewis to have won.
Looking forward to next year - will Mercedes still be as dominant?
Has the potential to be interesting - louder and faster has to be better!
I was appalled at the pressure the Mercedes team were putting on Lewis to ensure a one two finish. They had won the constructor's and the driver's - they shou.d have just left Lewis and Nico to sort it out. However, Lewis screwed it up - he should have more aggressively backed them up much earlier, but then he wasn't getting a lot of help from his team!
Finding it difficult to be pleased for Nico - he's too much of a cold fish for my liking,
In the the end I thought that that Channel 4 commentary made it sound rather more exciting than it really was.
Finding it difficult to be pleased for Nico - he's too much of a cold fish for my liking,
In the the end I thought that that Channel 4 commentary made it sound rather more exciting than it really was.
Lewis couldn't have done that before he'd made his last pit stop otherwise the team could've just delayed him in the pits to undo any gain Lewis might've made.RickRob said:
The whole season has been engineered to gift Rosberg the WDC and it stinks. Lewis knows how the entire Mercedes operation has worked against him.
Did anyone else notice that when Rosberg did his donut on the track, he just left the car there rather than return to Parc Ferme for scrutineering?
The rules state:
"At the end of the race, when the cars have passed the chequered flag, they must be driven straight to the post-race parc ferme without delay or assistance from marshals. The only exception is for the winning driver who may perform an act of celebration before reaching parc ferme, providing he does it safely and without calling into question the legality of his car..
Rosberg jumped over the perimeter wall to his team and did NOT drive his car to Parc Ferme. Rule is rules....
I have no doubt whatsoever that all of the drivers on that track in the same position to Lewis would have done the same !!!