n smikle wrote:Button's side of the garage are playing mind games. Button sand bagged in FP3 to make it next to impossible for LH side of the garage to know which wing was faster. It was only in Q2 that Button showed the true speed of the new Rear wing. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot; why the hell did Mclaren not give the leading driver the new wing to try first?!
Actually this is complete rubbish.
You never really see pole lap times in free practice, everybody sand bangs.
Lewis also had the new wing on, a quote from his twitter which later got deleted
'''Damn, WT F!! Jenson has the new rear wing on, I have the old. We voted to change, didn't work out. I lose 0.4 tenths just on the straight.''
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formul ... ds-newsxml
He said that he didn't feel happy with the new wing in the FP3 and decided that they would make 'dramatic changes' which included going back to the old wing and changing to a higher down force setting. He said in the interview after that didn't pay of and so it proved because what was a deficit of .5 seconds in FP3 turned to a .8 seconds by the end of Q3. But there is the thought that had Lewis not have turned wide on the first corner the gap between him and Jenson might well have remained a .5 second deficit.
Here are the times so you can compare yourself;
Lewis Hamilton, MP4-27A-04:
FP3: 12th, 1m49.615s (+1.073s) 19 laps
Q1: 8th, 1m49.605s (on Primes)
Q2: 5th, 1m48.563s (on Options)
Q3: 8th, 1m48.394s (on Options)
Jenson Button, MP4-27A-02:
FP3: 5th, 1m49.091s (+0.549s) 18 laps
Q1: 2nd, 1m49.250s (on Primes)
Q2: 1st, 1m47.654s (on Options)
Q3: 1st overall, 1m47.573s (on Options)
So there goes your theory of 'sandbagging' and insinuations of favouritism.
Love how some of you love to jump to conspiracy theories any time Button beats Hamilton...scrub that, it's actually really dam annoying.
