WE already had a crap driver for 5 years very recently...we don't need another one.....
+1 Vettel has always wanted to drive for Ferrari, he was open about it when he was just in F1. Bought himself a Scuderia back then, too! Love the story how as a young boy he went to Fiorano and watch Schumacher blast around the track, sitting on his dads shoulders. All things are pointing in the right direction. Next year they will give Mercedes a fright. Hopefully he can claim title 5 and get the ball rolling for a few more.
Well... at least he fits in A Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton arrives at New York charity ball in £1MILLION Ferrari supercar - Mirror Online
Any team that could afford him would have him if they had any sense, with exception ironically being Ferrari IMO.
Hamilton, even partying all night, already achieved more than what Lauda had achieved in his whole career. If Hamilton is winning, and taking the highest salary in F1, why does he have to give a **** about what people think?
For the tifosi Ferrari is above all, I doubt that they would love a driver that puts himself above the team as Hamilton does...That would end in tears...
If he was the designated number 1 driver at Ferrari, as they have a history of appointing such, like the in days of MS and Rubens, why would it end in tears.
Because when he wins it is "because of his own abilities" and when he looses he blames the team on the team radio...For some strange reasons the guys at Mercedes swallow that but I guess the guys at Ferrari would be to proud to take this and the fans even more...
If you're suggesting a tragic incident for Vettel, and Ferrari want a proven champion I'm sure they'll be able to get Alonso or Button for much cheaper. Same goes for Ricciardo/Verstappen, but they're not champions yet if Ferrari would wish to get one.
If Hamilton believes in himself and can back that up on the track, I find it hard to criticize if for some reason, beyond his control he loses, after all he hates losing. One of my criticisms in the past of him, is that he wanted to race everyone and everything on the track, and he did not look at the bigger picture, like in a (more of a Prost way) of winning a WDC. As regards to him being a primadonna, show me a top driver of late that isn't.
So winning excuses everything in you opinion? It is funny that RB is slaughtered for exactly the same behavior (when they win its them, when they loose its Renault) but at a driver this is self-believe all of the sudden...This weekend he did not loose beyond his control but he was still whining at the radio, the word "team" only exists if it suits him... They are all primadonnas but for some reason Ferrari is very happy with the behavior of Vettel during the year, I doubt it would be the same with Hamilton...
Agreed. I said years ago that Vettel will someday be driving for Ferrari simply because Michael had been grooming him since his karting days. Hamilton in a Ferrari would be like trying to mix water and oil....but then again it is F1 where anything is possible.
What are you talking about, Hamilton is gutted he couldn't take every opportunity he felt to win, that to me is a great sign of a driver with a healthy desire to carry on wanting to win, even though he has the WDC wrapped up, do you not think Merc's top brass think realize that. As regards Ferrari, that is just your opinion, if Hamilton or any other driver for that matter, brings home the wins for Ferrari, most folk in the red camp would be singing his praises..IMO.
Yesterday you posted "spot on" when someone said that one has to accept other people´s opinion but when looking over your posts the last page this sounds like a bad joke... YES, it is my opinion and unlike you I do not speek for "most folk"...And the first paragraph is just a repeat of yesterdays discussion so you have obviously forgotten the content of the post you liked "spot on"....As soon as someone says something against or just not pro-Hamilton you are getting catty...
One way Hamilton can try to get a Ferrari seat is if he starts smoking in public like Hunt used to, to please Marlboro and Arrivabene. http://i4.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article6205259.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Lewis-MAIN.jpg
That I doubt very much. Dennis passed over Alonson's tantrums to have him back, but I cannot see him ever take Hamilton back. I read somewhere that they avoid each other at the tracks. Ron Dennis felt betrayed when Hamilton left McLaren for Mercedes. Hamilton was, after all, Ron's creation.
Lets take a different perspective/look. Hamilton accomplished his dream of racing for and winning a WDC with McLaren and after all these decades RD should know that nothing is permanent in F1. Regarding Alonso and McLaren I was dumbfounded when RD took his cheating and lying arse back into the fold.
I can't see it unless Vettel has an accident or something else comes up. They are basically the same age and Vettel is as good or better IMHO. I'm not a Hamilton fan, but winning cures a lot a problems. Assuming he were to race for Ferrari, the Tifosi won't have much to say if he is on the top of the podium. Now if things were to go bad, it could go nuclear quite quickly.
+1 on all points. I too recall reading somewhere that there was no love lost between the two of them these days. OK, speed will often cause past 'issues' to be overlooked, but I think Uncle Ron was actually pretty upset & indeed felt betrayed. Whether he's right to feel that way is another question - he did deliver their last title after all.
Plus, Vettel is an excellent ambassador and communicator for Ferrari, whilst Hamilton is on an ego trip. I see that Vettel fits very well at the Scuderia and is appreciated by the tifosi. I don't think Hamilton would "gel" so well with that audience. Most of Hamilton following came about after the British newspapers went hysterical about him, and plenty of air time was given to highlight his success. There are influential people in the media, who wanted to push a certain message, on the back of Hamilton's success, even peddling the myth of his rise "from rag to richess", etc... Well, the first black man to win in F1, the first black man to be world champion, etc... that fits very well in the climate of political correctness that has taken over in Britain. It's what I call the "Obama effect". The US went through the same hysteria a few years back when they elected their first black president. Nobody, certainly not me, questions his skill on the track, but it's the rest that is nauseating...
All Hamilton seems to want out of F1 is chicks and $$$. Whoever maxes out those two things wins. Right now it's Merc. Who knows what the future holds. I could see him in a Ferrari, but only in a team with no Vettel. It would be a certain disaster of course, but Ferrari have a habit of picking that type of driver - witness Alonso...
5 WDC's in a row goes to show how important it is that a driver become a integral part of a team and be humble, I do not see that happening with Hamilton at any team much less Ferrari for that matter. Last weekend on the podium he blamed the track for not being able to pass Rosberg yet there was plenty of passing going on in the rest of the field, his arrogance is offending.
