I'd wager that vettel was taking things easy. Plus he never had Kers. I think a lot of you vettel haters forget his performances in 07 and 08 when he never had a good car. You're also keen to forget lewis running at the back of the field at the start of 09... Don't kid yourself into believing that he took that car to a win. He didn't come close to a win until it had been massively upgraded. Hamilton surely should have been disqualified due to excessive wear of the plank. It's in the rules so why hasn't it happened? The one bad thing about the f1 of today is hamilton-mania.
What I don't get today is quite a lot of Hamilton haters with ludicrous claims but then again it can be said with any set of fans of drivers in F1. If you watched the media, then you would think that Hamilton can't look after the tyres, not good at race strategy or driving in the wet compared to his teammate and also crashes a lot.
It may shock you to know that Lewis has had the least DNFs than all the top five people in championship last year over the last four years he has been in F1. The Red Bull drivers have had the most DNFs, followed by Button and then Alonso I believe. Obviously car reliability is one factor but if you were to believe pundits then you would consider Lewis crash prone and it being one side of his driving that lets him down. As he has the best record over his competitors in terms of DNFs, surely it is the other guys that need to improve on looking after the car better and minimising driver errors.
Then you got people saying Alonso is still the most complete driver on the grid. So for a F1 rookie to beat him in both qualifying and also finish ahead in the championship on count back due to consistency is considered a less of a driver? If Alonso was so complete, then why was he behind Hamilton for the most of championship and was resulting to desperate measures to get ahead of him as he could not outdrive him? At the time he was the defending double world champion that more or less drove Schumacher out of F1. You would expect much better with someone of his experience over a rookie in F1.
Then you got people saying Button is a better driver in the wet than Lewis due to his two wins last year. I have you remember that Lewis outdrove Button in both races but Button’s “gamble” on the unpredictable weather paid off both times. That is why I expect him to be further back in championship points than Lewis this season.
You say that Lewis did not take the McLaren to the win but I disagree, he beat the fastest car of the season being the Red Bull to win. People insult Button that he only won due to the double diffuser but considering Red Bull had the fastest car over 80% of the 2009 season; it was more of his class in the first few races over the Red Bull drivers that resulted in him winning the championship. In 2010 the Red Bull drivers again made a mess of it and could have lost the championship with a car that had the pace to win at least 90% of the races if none of the drivers made any big errors in the race and did not have reliability issues. If the McLaren drivers had Red Bulls advantage last year then I wouldn’t of been surprised if they did over 10 one twos personally but that is just my opinion.
Vettel now is considered probably the fastest driver in F1 but most of it is from the car. He marginally beat his teammate in qualifying pace last season, unlike Alonso and Lewis who dominated theres and normally by quite big margins. I think Vettel is not the fastest driver in F1 as many would like you to believe and in the same car Alonso and Hamilton would beat Vettel all day long in my opinion. However I rate Vettel still highly as Webber is considered a fast driver too and what I like most about Vettel is he can deliver quick qualifying times under pressure last year and also his wittiness. He probably is close to being as fast as Lewis and Alonso but I don’t think his race craft is anywhere near theres. I mean the move on Button on Spa last year, what was he thinking and then also the excuse of how early Button broke.
The final one I keep on hearing is Hamilton only won due to having the best / fastest cars. I think that Hamilton was the only driver to win the world championship, the last decade without the team winning the constructors championship if I’m not mistaken. He had a good teammate in 2008 who has beaten all of his other teammates in F1. Heikki finished 7th in the Renault in 2007 and the same in 2008 in the winning McLaren. This also I believe is a fact that Hamilton won the championship with the biggest margin in places between his teammate in the championship in the last decade or possibly longer. In 2007 the pairing of Alonso and Lewis could have flattered the McLaren compared to the Ferrari.
Anyway back to the plank, how do you know it is below legal requirement due to excessive wear? Also I’m sure the people who scrutineer the car would have disqualified Hamilton if his car did go against what is acceptable in the rule book. They definately check the cars out, look what happened to Sauber.
I don't understand it either. I don't like the kid or how SpeedTV shows his girlfriend in the pits ALL THE TIME. It seems things were handed to him in 2007.
How were things handed to him in 2007, he worked his way up through the Formulas all of them which he dominated. McLaren tested him out against Alonso and found him to be as fast as the defending double world champion. He earned it all on merit.
@ FIA being pro-Hamilton. You mean like 2008?
