Succinctly put, just goes to show you how selfish and self centred F1 drivers are. He has conveniently forgotten his antics in Malaysia as well as his antics last season when he said in Abu Dhabi he would lead from the front and control the race.

I personally think Mercedes need to start considering a replacement. Hamilton needs competition and who better than the Hulk!

On a separate note it just goes to show you why people need to be careful about labeling drivers great. If Hamilton was not at Mercedes, Rosberg could potentially be a double world champion but now we see the difference between a good driver and a great one.

This is why I always told the VetteI fanboys to calming down when he was winning titles

agree the "great drivers" label-these days we know who is likely to be world champ after 1 or 2 races

The question I ask people is that based on what you have seen in their careers if the following people were put in the same car set up to their individual tastes, balance spot on, etc with no reliability issues.

Who would come out on top;

Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Raikkonen, Ricciardo, Button, Hulkenberg

lads - shame on me but I didn't see much of the race. Was Rosberg close enough for Hamilton to slow him down? The way I'm reading it was that the gap was always a couple of secs?

comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 5 hours, 12 minutes ago
The question I ask people is that based on what you have seen in their careers if the following people were put in the same car set up to their individual tastes, balance spot on, etc with no reliability issues.

Who would come out on top;

Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Raikkonen, Ricciardo, Button, Hulkenberg

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Raikkonen

Lewis on the wind up. Bahrain is going to be phenomenal

Check this out;

Nico didn't try," said Hamilton. "They said maybe he was just comfortable second, and I said 'Well, that's the difference between us. I want to win always'.


"I would have done everything to get past, or at least pushed for three laps if I could."

Although Rosberg has explained that he planned to attack at the end of the race, his approach contrasted with Hamilton's attitude during last September's Italian GP when the Englishman flatly ignored his team's advice to back off and pressurised Rosberg into a race-costing mistake instead.

"If you take a step back, this is motor racing man. Racing. Don't take away the fun of the racing. It's racing," continued an unimpressed Hamilton.

"If I was in second or third, I would have done everything. I wouldn't have sat back two seconds to make it to the end of the stint.

"Of course you want to get to the end of the stint, but if I thought I had more pace, I would have tried to have got past, because that's the best part."

"He wasn't quick enough," Hamilton told The Guardian. "This is F1. I grew up watching the sport. You want to see overtaking. You want to see a battle. And now I’m in the sport you don’t want it to be too controlled. You don’t want to back off to save the tyre.

"I want the guy to be up my ass if he’s got the pace, up my ass and putting pressure on me. And if I can’t defend it, you lose it. Like in Bahrain, I wasn’t quick enough and I did everything I could to stay ahead. And that was the greatest race ever."

comment by Welshy (U1348)
posted 15 hours, 44 minutes ago
lads - shame on me but I didn't see much of the race. Was Rosberg close enough for Hamilton to slow him down? The way I'm reading it was that the gap was always a couple of secs?
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Nico provided no threat whatsoever. He was beaten with consumate ease

"couple of sneaky maneuvers-speaking to Vettel in German in Hamilton's presence,"

How dare they speak German