FIA Orders Hamilton to attend Press conference at COTA...

He'll show up like the coward he is and still be on his phone like the ******bag he is.

 

This is what Hamilton does not get. Sure he's a gifted driver. however he is also earning Millions doing what hundreds of millions want to do.. and he cant even play along? do your job, be a professional, and do the work of being an F-1 driver.

show your personality on your own time... To me its disrespectful of the fans - who fund the sport... and to the company paying you ... he is spoilt and needs to be taken to the wood shed by Bernie... Toto and or Niki...

 

Maturity of a six year old kid. Heck, even Kimi who, as we all know, positively loves P.R, does attend and makes that effort...

Rgds

 

AMuS reported his messed up starts recently are attributed to his state of mind/lack of focus.

Hamilton being confronted with himself will only contribute to that. I expect him to crumble further as the season comes to an end. He needs the winter break to think about some stuff.

 

Yep, he needs to do some soul-searching (well, I don't know what he will find there, though...). After all, your first adversary on track is your team-mate, and it looks that this year he now has got rather good chances to be beaten for the title in the end...

Rgds

 

Hammy is just upset because this year Mercedes have alowed Nico to spank him..you know, it's not his fault, rather teh way he was used to win...with rigged races, help from the marshalls, tied up team mates....must be cause he's black!!

Ps: could also be because he's number one fan was banned from f-chat!!

 

In fact, we all should be upset here, because Andrew deprieved us of the possibility to have said to that number one fan that we now had the proof that L.H is definitively not a GOAT...

Rgds

 

Yap..i've been thinking about that...perhaps we should alow him back

 

In fact, Andrew saved him from our irony, which is, well...ironic, isn't it?

Rgds

 

Boy,
Do I ever miss the Schumacher days!!

 

Hamilton should send his new Call of duty avatar to the conference and kill all the journos with a machine gun

 

+1 Kimi is the professional.

 

Sorry guys, this is a complete non-story insofar as to whether Hamilton will attend or not. Bas chose to state in his subject line "FIA orders Hamilton..." - that's the routine. From that linked article -

The FIA has always required drivers to attend their mandatory Thurs, Fri, post-Qualifying, or post-race press conferences, when their names are called or if they've finished in the top three Q or race... it's a contractual obligation that comes with participating in the F1 series, and no drivers ever refuse... on occasion a driver has been late to arrive, or has missed a Thursday session due to travel problems, but they do get fined by the FIA for those absences.

Hamilton being requested to attend this week on Thursday is no different than last week or 30% of the prior Thursday conferences. It was the Mercedes press conferences that he said he was going to refuse, not the FIA conferences.

Or did you mean what would he do at the FIA press conference? OK, that could be interesting, if he is still pouting. I would bet that there have been words at Mercedes behind closed doors and he will give monosyllabic, terse, responses.

 

You are misreading. FIA has ordered him to appear in body AND mind. The latter is the challenge under discussion.

 

Yep.

"You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot force it to drink".

We will see how Hamilton behaves in future at these press conferences he is forced to attend. That could be quite an anti-climax.

Watch this space...

 

Guy isn't doing himself any favors....

 

Just a great big "R"

 

You seem to miss him or why do you put that much efforts in thinking what he would have said...All the time people complained that he posts and now they sort of miss him because there is nobody to sting???
So he is getting his attention, even when he is gone...

 

Indeed.
You could watch the press conference for the first race and saved all that time because the rest of the season's were the same except for "insert name of track here".

Does anyone actually watch these ?

 

Boy,

Do I ever miss the Jim Clark days!!

 

Maybe this is what it will be like at the Thursday Austin press conference...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1kvwXsZtU8[/ame]

 

Good one!! This press event might just be entertaining!

 

I don't remember "press conference" in Clark's days.

Bernie hadn't imposed it's dictatorship yet at that time.