Comments on: Wake-up State-Side Tifosi Ferrari Top Charts

By: George

George — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:30:53 +0000

His post race interview was so “aw shucks” I had to turn it off. He really comes across as a two faced weasel, so sweet when it’s to his advantage, and over the top when he thinks he can get away with it.

All top drivers need to be cut throat when necessary, it seems to me Lewis has taken it to a different level.

By: George

George — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:25:14 +0000

Boys, when a driver openly discusses that his teamate is no longer wanted, and he’s a rookie at that, it’s a sign that the inmate is running the asylum.

I can’t believe Ron is happy over those pronouncements but I don’t think there is much he can do, is there. But the kid should not be publicly making team policy decisions, should he?

There is something very disturbing about his entire demeanor that I find unsettling which takes away from his driving skills.

As for the slalom event today, I can’t believe I stayed up to watch a Mercedes sedan lead 19 laps. Say what you will about NASCAR, they at the least have the common sense to postpone a race when it’s necessary. They should have run the race on Monday.

By: verasaki

verasaki — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:09:05 +0000

btw, Julian, yeah we all got that point, the point Hamilton is missing is that drivers like Senna and Prost did the same thing in a much more subtle and knife up the sleeve sort of way. He really needs to loose the ingenue mode.

By: verasaki

verasaki — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:45:10 +0000

ok, i was NOT serious about an actual monsoon. is this going to be the first f1 race where the safety car takes the chequered?

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:39:46 +0000

I didn’t take it as big-headedness on Lewis’ part, it sounded to me like he was taking the piss a bit and just trying to unsettle Alonso: “oh yeah, Alonso’s been claiming all season that I’m the golden boy, actually he’s right” kind of thing.

By: George

George — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:53:04 +0000

Ron Dennis has no idea the size of the monster he has cooked up in his F1 training lab. You can chalk it up to inexperience, unabashed enthusiasm, or whatever, but I find Louie’s descriptions of “we at Mclaren..”, as if it was his team, very disturbing. What driver of any ability will be going to McLaren and have to face that attitude?

I hope Fred gives him some serious driving lessons before season’s end. He Q’d .070 behind Louie the Loudmouth, so his car will be competitive. Unfortunately there is no one there capable of teaching him humility and consideration, least of all Fred and Ron, is there?

By: verasaki

verasaki — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:02:33 +0000

I saw this before dawn on another site and just chalked it up to no coffee yet. I’ve had coffee, I’ve worked, I’ve been to the gym…I’m still shaking my head. Is it in the FIA spec bottled water supplied to these guys?! Why can’t they just ALL shut up and do realize what their jobs are? This is the longest, most tedious year for drivers, owners, series who-do’s and governing bodies to just crap all over themselves. It’s like a really bad reality tv show where everyone knows the camera is on and this is their 15 seconds, so they have to perform. Where did it all go wrong? Race #1 and I was thinking, wow! We got racing…ashes to ashes indeed. To paraphrase, I used to be amused but now I’m trying really, really hard not to be disgusted. And I am really ready for this F1 season to be over. I never, ever thought I’d say that.

BTW, I fell asleep before quali last night but when I woke up to see Hamilton take pole, it was or had been raining on that track…I think…Could that have anything to do with some surprise performances (I hear Spyker had a good day, too)? Nico’s been coming on and as I wrote Williams off, this year I’ve thought they’ve been doing rather well for where they are. Pray for that damned monsoon…maybe Kubica can be the best man on the day, much like Olivier Panis, another underrated driver lingering around p6 for much of his career.

By: peterg

peterg — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:53:49 +0000

Considering the Toyota is running a Williams gear box because of their F1 constructor expertise, wouldn’t it just be simpler to merge the two teams?

After the longest & most expensive build up to an F1 entry Toyota in 7 seasons have achieved nothing.

Great idea of mine…….but it will never happen.

By: vroom

vroom — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:02:04 +0000

Perhaps Baby Louie should shut up and drive!