Lewis might be starting to grow up ...

... http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/72620.html

Man I'd be pissed if I was the team principal and my driver was suffering on the track because of going out on the piss. There is a time and a place for everything and he has a job that 90% of petrol heads desperately want ...
Pete

 

"There will be times to attack and times to sit back," Hamilton added.





I thought he never knew this. He was always attacking and crashing into people.

 

http://i40.tinypic.com/15cdamu.jpg

 

meh, Jenson will beat him again.

 

If Hamilton gets his act in gear he could be wdc again.. but he has to stop playing superstar... remember button went thru all that early on... so its a maturity factor ... good for him.

 

+1

 

Hats off to him. I still can't say no when friends ask me to go out for drinks! Lol

 

You don't get paid millions of dollars to drive their race car the next day, that they have spent something like 30 million developing ... and the results of your driving don't dictate the future financial position of the company.

I think LH owes it to his team to choose more wisely when he parties.
Pete

 

+1
If you can't handle it, don't do it before a big important day (Qualifying, Race day)
Drink on the Sunday, how ever much you want...

 

Looks like Lewis has reconsidered his post race petulance. He said the right things even if he was just as unsatisfied.

 

Yeah, it's not like he won a WDC by hanging back and getting the result he needed rather than attacking and losing

 

Hamilton has always been the faster driver. Last year he had a combination of bad luck and bad decisions. Many of them against Massa.

Kinda like Massa beating Kimi - one-time fluke that won't repeat itself.

We'll see.

 

He won a WDC by driving one of the best drives i've seen in 2008. Last year, it was a different story OTOH.

 

lol. same here!

 

I agree with you.

But I think we all try (foolishly, IMO) to get inside the mind of our favorite drivers and make assumptions about their mental state and what they need to do in order to win.

Sometimes it's not daunting psychological barriers that drivers need to overcome in order to regain their status - barriers that they are unable to see or acknowledge, but the acute television-watching fan has divined through the 12 seconds of PR-fluff the driver said on TV that weekend as well as through the 3 hack-job press articles that came out during the slow news days. Sometimes you just have a string of bad luck. And sometimes, the press is a bit too hungry for a story and make it into something else.

I'm not limiting that to Hamilton either... remember when Webber overtook Vettel and the story was that he was just too young and inexperienced to be a WDC and he should sit back and let Mark win it? Or when Schumi didn't immediately beat Rosberg, and was washed up and embarrassing himself?

Sometimes, you just get in a rut or have a lot of bad luck in a row. It happens

 

I agree. Cheers mate.