Sebastian Vettel has won the Singaporean Grand Prix for the second time in a row, benefiting from the retirement of pole sitter Lewis Hamilton. The German was left unchallenged for the remainder of the race and is joined on the podium by Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.
The issue is, pre this race, hamilton just beating alonso consistently was enough. Post this race, Hamilton needs Alonso to have bad luck, so effectively it's championship over as far as I'm concerned.Teechnical wrote:I really feel bad for Hamilton, he deserved this one.
And I'm an Alonso fan.
However I dont think championship over, there are six races left. Anything can happen:P
yep we've missed out on so many races where lewis could of finished 3-5, those points add up at the end of the year in a big way.astracrazy wrote:is hamiltons engineer taking the piss, "just look forward to the next one"
why didnt they take the grid drop to get the points. Mclaren screw Hamilon again
championship over. Hamilton, move on - i really don't think mclaren understand how to win the championship. Its always win win win which is obviously why they didn't take the grid drop. You need consistent points! Look at Alonso, look at Kimi. COPY AND PASTE
Ted just said he's spoken to the team about that and they checked it all out and checked the telemetry yesterday and couldn't see anything wrong. Today they saw the temperatures rising in the gearbox, parts overheating and machining themselves, and then failing. Given the blue smoke out the back of the car it looks like an oil leak rather than a stress within the gearbox itself from the impact yesterday.spadeflush wrote:Someone here had expressed concerns about Hamilton's gearbox after yest's brush with the wall
but i'm sure his engineer said the opposite? and mentions yesterday....myurr wrote:Ted just said he's spoken to the team about that and they checked it all out and checked the telemetry yesterday and couldn't see anything wrong. Today they saw the temperatures rising in the gearbox, parts overheating and machining themselves, and then failing. Given the blue smoke out the back of the car it looks like an oil leak rather than a stress within the gearbox itself from the impact yesterday.spadeflush wrote:Someone here had expressed concerns about Hamilton's gearbox after yest's brush with the wall
I like that to happen as wellNathanOlder wrote:Button better win this one now.
Could be misinterpreted. He said "we did all we could yesterday" could be referring to his qualifying performance. Tenuous maybe, but McLaren didn't replace *anything* in the gearbox yesterday so they didn't do *all* they could.astracrazy wrote:but i'm sure his engineer said the opposite? and mentions yesterday....
i dunno. Bit of a funny way to talk about qualifying. I'd expect that term if he didn't get pole.myurr wrote:Could be misinterpreted. He said "we did all we could yesterday" could be referring to his qualifying performance. Tenuous maybe, but McLaren didn't replace *anything* in the gearbox yesterday so they didn't do *all* they could.astracrazy wrote:but i'm sure his engineer said the opposite? and mentions yesterday....
Then maybe you should have a look at this:ell66 wrote:I keep seeing people laud alonso for being unbelievable this year, but i dont see it, he's done nothing that hamilton hasn't....he lucked into his championships in 05,06 due to his competitors problems and the same this year.
As for mclaren, there not a championship winning team, there record shows that and there ability to always --- up any given situation.
I don't think so – I think Alonso is the only one who still has to pit now.astracrazy wrote:Kimi going to be a big winner from the safety car period? pitted bang on q
edit: no i don't think so actually
works out for Alonso more than anything. God his getting some luck this year - he truly must have magic dust
