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Masanari

Masanari

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Taken from PlanetF1's Team-Mate Wars:

McLaren
Season: Hamilton 6 Button 7
Race: Button
One of the strangest GPs from a results point of view - Hamilton was by far the fastest driver and would have pushed Vettel hard had he been allowed to catch up with him. On his own, in clear air, he set fastest lap after fastest lap in the closing stages. But he finished behind Jenson Button, off the podium and now slips behind Jenson in the team-mate race... having been faster than him and having outqualified him in two successive races!
It's a good job this is motor racing and not cycling, because that kind of injustice burns holes in the psyche of professional cyclists. The great Italian cyclist Marco Pantani spent much of his career fuming at the treatment he got from his team, from race organisers and from some of the cycling authorities. And he was one of the few cyclists who could have knocked Lance Armstrong off his perch. But in the end, the politics of it all was too much. Let's hope that doesn't happen to Hamilton.
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I mean what is that all about?! It is monumentally stupid. <doh>

Also, this is not as bad but still pretty stupid:

Race: Petrov
Petrov qualified in front of Bruno Senna and through no fault of his own got taken out of the race. So qualifying places apply to the team-mate result. Monza wasn't much of a test for Bruno Senna; Singapore will be a much steeper learning curve. If he can qualify in front of Petrov there, then that really will begin to ratchet up the pressure for places in 2012. Eric Boullier is saying he really needs to know about Kubica's ability to drive by the end of October. That sounds like he's setting the bar extraordinarily high extraordinarily early. If Vijay Mallya is quite happy to wait till December to make his decisions about drivers then something must be forcing Eric's hand. In terms of car design, Kubica, Petrov and Senna are all relatively tall for GP drivers, so it can't be that they need to fashion the cockpit a certain way.
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He gives it to Petrov simply because he outqualifed Senna even though they were on different quali strategies and Senna did not put in a Q3 time. <doh>

I also remember I think it was in Malaysia where Buemi got a stop-go penalty and still finished ahead of Alguersuari and he gave the team-mate race win to Alguersuari. <doh>

PlanetF1 is part of Sky so this is the type of quality we should expect next year. <grr>
 
Im still having trouble trying to figure out exactly what point they were trying to make there. Are they insinuating that team politics are against Hamilton? Is cobwebs writing for PlanetF1?
 
Jacky_Ickx said:
Im still having trouble trying to figure out exactly what point they were trying to make there. Are they insinuating that team politics are against Hamilton? Is cobwebs writing for PlanetF1?
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I know it is just complete and utter rambling nonsense. I can't believe that a) someone who is in that position wrote that (when I read it I thought of cobwebs as well <laugh>), and b) that it was published.
 
For a moment I thought these were you thought Mifune and I went what the **** is he talking about but then I read it properly and realized it was from planet F1 which should be called what ****ing planet are they on.

Are they seriously suggesting Mclaren are scuppering Hamilton's career?
 
He could have saved himself and us a lot of trouble and just written "I heart Hamilton and Petrov". It would be just as insightful. That's bad, really unprofessional. Part of sky though, so say no more.
 
I think I get the point... you lot just can't see the wood for the trees.

What the author is trying to say, is that to win, Hamilton needs to do more drugs.

It's clear as monkey poo. :p
 
I confess to not really knowing what this thread is about. Perhaps I'm too tired but I'm really not sure what your point is Mifune!
 
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