Lewis Hamilton

Well put.

I think those who suggest he is not an exceptionally talented driver tend to dislike him (which they are perfectly entitled to do) or are diehard Ferrari fans who don't like anyone challenging the supremacy of their team or drivers. They let those things get in the way of making a reasonably objective evaluation of LH's skill.

 

+1

Except for him winning the championship. I hope Kimi does.

 

I neither like or dislike Hami, but you're jumping on the band wagon of an unproven commodity. Most of you Scots wear your heart on your sleeve, so objective you are not. I believe Hami has excellent skills, but he has also pulled some major boners, including throwing away the 2007 WDC. If he matures, he may become one of the great ones. But he is going to have to deliver multiple WDCs.

 

Archie Bunker has moved to So Cal now? C'mon, let's leave prejudice and bigotry where it belongs...among the ignorant. I'm not Scottish, but I think IanMac is spot on in his observation.

 

I see the more posts you have the smarter you are??? Who's really the one who thinks they know it all ?? If you read my posts and not just react to them, you would see that they are based on fact not opinion. Hamilton is indeed a good quick driver, but should not be elivated to the status of Senna or Schumacher, until he proves him self. One little cheating incident, and the guys stock would be devistated, and he would become just another foot note in the F1 record books. Lastly my comments were directed to one person who challenged my factual post with opinoin. If you are offended by my comments perhaps you are also blinded by the same opinion based, media hyped, love for Louis Hamilton......

 

gsjohnson.....you are well informed and make comments based on facts, not opinions, not so sure about the Scot thing though. Last week at Hockenhiem, LH let his driving do the talking, however last year in the gravel trap, he also let his driving do the talking.

 

You might want to take a look in the mirror as to who's ignorant. If you had done your homework on the Scots culture & history, you would find that my comment rings of the truth. Furthermore the comment was not slanderous or degrading in any manner. You defining bigotry and prejudice in correlation with my comments is ignorant in itself. I have a Scot and a Brit who both work for me that have been in this country for less than 10 years and we have routinely joked to each other over this very subject when we are all at the local pub after work. They are very proud and passionate people. Now if you choose to agree with him, as you have, than so be it. But to jump to his defense by mischaracterizing my statememnts is BS on your part.

 

Anytime you rely on sweeping generalizations to form an opinion about another person, that is prejudice, i.e. to PREJUDGE someone based on your pre-conceived notions of truth. The "some of my best friends are..." comment doesn't give you a free pass to paint everyone from that country with the same brush. Argue with a person based on their opinions, not their heritage. The fact that he shares the same view as others from a variety of countries makes the reference to his ethnicity baseless.

 

Dude! He didn't say "smarter" he said "more cred". Believe me, Mike has forgotten more "cred" than most on these boards will ever have...... It's something you earn over time - He has it, you don't (yet). And getting into a pi$$ing contest will do you no good.

Sorry for the hijack,
Cheers,
Ian

 

Many multiple champions spent time maturing their driving before ending up in a good car at the right time. For a first year driver LH, even in a top car, the results and mistakes are hard to ignore. Definite talent and probably multiple championships if McL/Mercedes deliver the goods.

Very few delivered from the get-go, Clark, Fangio, MS, Senna did, Lauda, Prost and others took a few seasons, some Moss, Amon, Ronnie and JV Sr. had talent/speed but never achieved the wdc. Let's wait and see what history has to say....

 

I didn't read any bigotry into the post, but it is a sweeping generalisation that I don't recognise as being true. And even if we did 'wear our hearts on our sleeves' that wouldn't preclude us from being objective. In any event I'm Scottish and Lewis Hamilton is English - another sweeping generalisation is that the Scots hate the English.

 

Hey, we built that big friggin' wall to keep you guys out

 

no, we the Brits hate the Scottish.......love the eggs though, and the whiskey,..... LOL

 

were these answers from a Scottish school?


The following questions were set in last year's GCSE. These are genuine answers (from 16 year olds)

Q. Name the four seasons
A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar

Q. Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink
A. Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists

Q. How is dew formed
A. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire

Q. What causes the tides in the oceans
A. The tides are a fight between the earth and the moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins the fight

Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on
A. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed

Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections
A. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election

Q. What are steroids
A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs

Q. What happens to your body as you age
A. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental

Q. What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty
A. He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery

Q. Name a major disease associated with cigarettes
A. Premature death

Q. What is artificial insemination
A. When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow

Q. How can you delay milk turning sour
A. Keep it in the cow

Q. How are the main parts of the body categorised (eg the abdomen)
A. The body is consisted into 3 parts - the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels: A,E,I,O and U

Q. What is the fibula
A. A small lie

Q. What does 'varicose' mean
A. Nearby

Q. What is the most common form of birth control
A. Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium

Q. Give the meaning of the term 'Caesarean section'
A. The caesarean section is a district in Rome

Q. What is a seizure
A. A Roman Emperor

Q. What is a terminal illness
A. When you are sick at the airport

Q. Give an example of a fungus. What is a characteristic feature
A. Mushrooms. They always grow in damp places and they look like umbrellas

Q. Use the word 'judicious' in a sentence to show you understand its meaning
A. Hands that judicious can be soft as your face

Q. What does the word 'benign' mean
A. Benign is what you will be after you be eight

Q. What is a turbine
A. Something an Arab or Shreik wears on his head

 

Uh-uh! Hope your flame suit is handy!

"Brits" = English, Welsh, Scots and N.Ireland.

The generalisation is therefore the English "hate" the Scottish, not the Brits........

 

True, but we know him as a "Brit", he spent too much time over here, just call him a "Limey Ba$tard", he answered to that as well.

Hi there Art!

 

LMAO!!!

 

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Look what you have started Now...

 

One of the reasons we Scots hate the English is that they think Britain and England are the same thing. And whiskey is Irish!

 

With a name like yours what are you doing on that side of the wall?

 

This is going seriously off-topic!

 

True, great earlier post BTW.

 

LOL

Before you pretend to be authorotative on cultural issues, you should do a Venn diagram on the nationalities of your one "Scot" and other "Brit" friend.

 

LOL!! Cry me a river almighty driver's almanac !!! By the way you forgot the apostrophe in "whats" and you capitalized "uneducated" which is not a proper word in this sentence...tisk...tisk....what a jerk