Lewis Hamilton proved absolutely dominant during the German GP in Hockenheim and was never under any threat. Nelson Piquet finished a magnificent second and savoured the first podium for Renault this year. Felipe Massa was there but drove an anonymous race, ending up in 3rd place.
Thanks for the note Tomba. I didn't know it, and it certainly explains why Massa was slow and why Hamilton took him so easily.Tomba wrote:Actually Massa was having problems with his brakes, so there wasn't really much to do for him. It obviously helped massively for Hamilton and makes it look more dominant than it actually was
Fisi has been handed a 25sec penalty.ben_watkins wrote:Shame on Honda being beaten by both Force India cars! Well done to Mike Gasgoyne and F1I for a great result.
We saw. Just another sycophant blindly denying reality.waynes wrote:Where are Toyota's F1 team based again?
Kimi is fuelled heavy, he isnt comfortable with the car on a 2 lap run but on a long stint its quicker than the McLaren
we'll see
I thought the same thing... but after watching the replays the man held his line. It happened to be that Massa and Piquet was on the left. Mclaren made some major improvments MAJOR, you could see the car eating up the track behind Ferrari. Well deserve win for Hamilton. The Man is truly talented =D> .Tomba wrote:As I wrote in my GP report, I agree that he didn't drive cleanly and should we watched closely by the FIA. Pushing someone off the track to pass him is on the limit, but when you do it twice in two laps, it's not a coincidence anymore.EAKMotorsports wrote:I´m mad Hamilton is so dirt driver. I hate FIA for that, I´m mad furious.
Yeah he is good. We will truly see his talent when he has a --- car. It's not hard looking good in the fastest car on track.Badmon wrote:The Man is truly talented =D> .
Come on, just accept it......he is talented. He did beat eyebrow man in his first season and these last two races of his have been spectacular...Ray wrote:Yeah he is good. We will truly see his talent when he has a --- car. It's not hard looking good in the fastest car on track.Badmon wrote:The Man is truly talented =D> .
WhiteBlue wrote:BMW are still playing a very dumb game on Saturday morning. They always run low lap numbers and only on heavey fuel loads. They should routinely let Heidfeld do 10-15 additional laps on low fuel. He is usually 2 tenth slower than Kubica unless he can familiarise himself with the conditions and hone himself to the pace. with a bit of training that shouldn't be so drastic as it was today. again Nick missed out on Kubica in Q2 by two tenth and in the end that meant a difference of five places. when will they learn. or are they hell bent to get rid of Nick?
Guilty as charged, and now that it is a driver that I support who is benefiting then I have changed my tune. In this instance the only difference is that the McLarens have only really done it when there has been a vast difference of pace or the drivers are on different strategies. Today I think that it was pretty obvious that Hamilton would eventually find a way past Heiki, and that all he'd be doing by fighting him is harming the teams chances of challenging for even more points. Where I objected in the past to Ferraris tactics was where Schumacher was, for example, gifted wins when his teammate was leading the race and was at least there on merit. So subtly different, but I agree that I am being a tad hypocritical.bhallg2k wrote:People are interesting, indeed.
I remember races where Michael Schumacher was clearly the beneficiary of team orders, or when he displayed a liberal interpretation of passing etiquette and people got up in arms over that, too. It's just funny how yesterday's Schumacher detractor is today's Hamilton defender.
Of course, those who saw nothing wrong with Schumacher's form should say nothing now.
Therefore, I have nothing else to say about that.
It's quite evident that McLaren now have the upper hand over Ferrari in terms of development, though I don't think we can still say by how much, as it's been several races since the outcome was decided on pace alone. Today's wildly different strategies between Hamilton and the rest of the field did nothing to clarify matters.
On another note, I think I'm officially giving up on Felipe Massa. He's a very quick driver, but he goes to pieces under pressure, be it from rain or from an oncoming driver. He may not have had "the car to fight today," as he said, but he gifted second place to Hamilton. I don't know how else to describe his inexplicable moving off of the prime defensive line coming into that hairpin.
Or maybe he just holds the door open for all the ladies. I don't know.
Congratulations to Piquet for a mistake-free (and quite lucky) race. It was nice to see, as was Raikkonen's charge into the points after the safety car period.
God, I hope Ferrari ups their pace. I don't know that I can stomach much more of the effusive praise being heaped upon Hamilton. It's getting worse, as evidently his poo has no odor at all.
Almost with you 100% but disagree with the fastest laps showing anything too important. Yet again today Kimi looked good if you look only at fastest laps, but in reality for the first two stints he was nowhere performance wise, and was only reasonable in the third stint. Again Kimi fastest at Silverstone, but would you really want to compare his pace to Hamiltons?gcdugas wrote:FYI, for those who want to see something very interesting, for those who are slamming Heikki compared to Lewis, for those who are writing Kimi off... see this.
Safety car notwithstanding, this was just the race you hoped for. Ferrari, Mac and BMW all got both cars into the points for the first time this year. Good chart of season at a glance here.mx_tifosi wrote:Personal opinion here, but I really hope for dry conditions throughout the entire GP weekend. Wet races might be entertaining and keep you on the edge of your seat screaming at the tv, but they're not very fulfilling nor very representative of maximum high performance, which is what Formula One is about.
