****** FORMULA 1 THREAD ******

[Britishlion]

Lewis Hamilton is going to be in bigggggg trouble after that interview with Lee Mckenzie !

[andrewparker]

Lewis Hamilton is going to be in bigggggg trouble after that interview with Lee Mckenzie !

What did he say? I switched off in disgrace.

[RobH]

Lewis Hamilton is going to be in bigggggg trouble after that interview with Lee Mckenzie !

What did he say? I switched off in disgrace.

Its just been loaded on the f1 website and tbh some of me agrees with him if you go to overtake and make it through its all good but if you hit the other driver its a penalty, what kind of message is that sending out to the drivers?

[Britishlion]

He was trying to say he was being picked on !

But when asked about why he thinks it is, he responds by saying , may be because I'm black !

Although he meant it as a joke the media will be all over him !

[Hedge]

Interview here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13588664.stm

[MAT ED30]

oh oh he played the black card

[PDT]

Lewis 'cry baby' Hamilton needs to realise that he isnt the rich kid on the karting track any more with Mclaren pulling the strings! He drove very very poorly and showed his true colours. Mentioning anything to do with colour, as a joke or not shows that he is not a professional and needs to wind his neck in. 

'doing a lewis' = make a complete balls up of something due to being in a strop and blame everyone else.

[vRS Carl]

If it wasnt for the History of Monaco gp i would scrap it. The fact that vettel can stay in front of two drivers with tyres 20 laps younger goes to show how impossible it is to overtake.

Hamilton was all over the place but what would you prefer him to do sit behind the car in front thats a second slower for 78 laps, all the incidents today was because cars carnt ovetake each other even if there 1, 2, 3 seconds quicker.

GP's like Monoco they should have qualifiying then just hand the points out and forget the race.

Canada will be alot better

I disagree... alonso and Button couldnt overtake because they were off his pace, its not like they were both all over the back of him is it!

What race was you watching so just before the last safety car Alsonso was no where near Vettel then no, becuase i thought they were right behind him and its also weird that button can pit and in the course of about 6 laps make up 19 seconds on Vettel.

Yeah no where near his pace

The point i was making is there is no way Vettel would have been able to keep his lead on over circuits in the same circumstances he would have been left for dead and that is blatantly obvious.

Agree with you there Rob. Until he caught Alonso & Vettel Jenson was 1.5 Secs a lap quicker on the same tyres due to how much newer they were. Plus when he did get out in front and had clean air he pulled out a 14 sec lead (granted he was on Super Softs)

Monaco is becoming a bit of a joke and is frustrating for fans. I think they should scrap the chicane out of the tunnel and just make that part of the lap have a slight right hand curve. At least then there would be an overtaking opportunity.

[Nodz]

Hamiltons gonna be in trouble for his comments, he had a frustrating weekend but the Ali G joke was a bit much.. would've been good if there wasn't the safety car at the end but thats one of them things, especially with that amount of cars in that area..

On another note was good to see Eddy Jordan get terrorised by getting thrown/pushed in the Redbull swimming pool in the fan forum 

[rich83]

.... is he for real?? 

[Hurdy]

IMHO, it was almost like watching Scalextric racing - you can't overtake on those either.

Okay, so there were a few decent overtakes in the race, but I agree that if it had been any other track Vettel wouldn't have been in front once Button caught up and Alonso would have passed Vettel too.

They may as well have scrapped the race after the accident on lap 72.

Hamilton was VERY rough today, but I think it was only out of frustration more than anything. Monaco is as much a high society event now as an F1 event and I too agree that there are plenty of other tracks that would be a better track to race on, BUT no where near as good an event as the Monaco setting. Monaco should stay

[RedRobin]

Hamilton was VERY rough today, but I think it was only out of frustration more than anything. Monaco is as much a high society event now as an F1 event and I too agree that there are plenty of other tracks that would be a better track to race on, BUT no where near as good an event as the Monaco setting. Monaco should stay

....I couldn't agree more  Monaco has style !

Some of you guys posting here take your favourite team/driver winning far too seriously - Rather like football fans. It's a sport to enjoy with all its ups and downs. Both last season and this season have been great in my opinion (and the opinion of many others).

Re Eddy Jordan, he's a colourful character and without him knowing everyone like he does the televised interviews would be lacking. DC is a good foil but he's so stiff! 

[strapper]

Hammy is the man! lets forget about today and think of Canada in two weeks where he is going to walk it and show that the redbull doesnt have wings!

[Saint Steve]

So when is Vettels luck gonna run out and when are Mclaren gonna stop making stupid decisions???

His luck continued in a big way today, tyres were about to go off before the safety car, and qualifying, although clocked a very good time, got fortunate again with the Q3 ending premiturlymand not allowing Hamilton to get a fair Crack at it..

Felt sorry for Jenson button, felt he was the quickest today and didnt win again due to unlucking with his pit stop timing just as the saftey car came out

[RedRobin]

Lewis Hamilton is going to be in bigggggg trouble after that interview with Lee Mckenzie !
 

....Nah, storm in a teacup. All this political correctness stuff is ridiculous. Hamilton drove a bit too aggressively/roughly today and had a very disappointing weekend. As Lee McKenzie said: She prefers to interview someone who is upfront about what they feel at the time. Who cares what the newspapers have to say about it!