It's all talk and posturing. I don't see anything wrong with what LH is doing I do believe him to be one of the best driver's on the grid. He's young and handling his immense wealth and fame probably better than a lot of others would. He made a bad mistake and it's done with, and I'm sure Lewis knows deep down Ferrari had Canada under control, but hell he's never going to admit that to himself, for that would be basically admitting defeat. France should be great I'm looking forward to a spectacular showing from Ferrari and Kimi.
JYS: Inexperience caused pit crash Triple world champion Sir Jackie Stewart believes Lewis Hamilton's Montreal pit gaffe is a reminder that the McLaren star still has a lot to learn. Stewart put the error down to inexperience, saying that it showed Lewis had yet to perfect the 'mind management' required by Formula 1. Hamilton dominated the Canadian Grand Prix until slamming into the back of Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari in the pit lane, having failed to notice the pit exit red light that the Finn had stopped for. "It comes down to inexperience," Stewart told the Daily Mail newspaper. "It could only be expected. "He has only been in Formula 1 for 15 months. "In Canada it was all about the failure of mind-management. "If you are in the lead, the pace car comes out and you need to go into the pits, all sorts of things go though your head. "Inexperience means you don't have the focus, the single-minded, clear-headed thought process when something like that happens." But Stewart also felt that McLaren could have been at fault if Hamilton's engineers had not given him sufficiently precise instructions. "I don't know precisely what they told him over the headset," said Sir Jackie. "Given his lack of experience, they should have talked him up the pit lane. "Not just 'the red light's on' but 'slow down, slow down, Kimi has stopped'. "McLaren are used to having experienced drivers, so maybe they assumed more of Lewis than was fair." Stewart added that Hamilton had set the bar so high in his rookie season that it was easy to forget how inexperienced he still is. "He presents himself as so mature, but it is impossible to become Einstein overnight," he said. "You simply can't go straight from kindergarten to university. "When he looks back in four or five years he will question himself about what sort of person and driver he was in 2007 and 2008." http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=42969
+1 I have much more respect for Alonso now especially seeing how competitive he is in the Renault compared to his (used to have a big mouth) teammate.
I wonder what his bumper sticker says... "I BRAKE FOR... " ? (definitely not for Kimi, or for red lights...)
Actually, Button and Coulthard were massively hyped in their day, if you have forgotten. People were getting really sick of Button, because he didn't have a winning car, so he didn't win. Coulthard has been in Williams and Maclaren, yet still couldn't close the deal.
actually, the Alonso/Hamilton commercial shows that Hamilton does brake for a woman crossing the street! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0I7Ef4gQI ~shahedc .
So from now on the Renaults are going to have the pictures of Flavio's ex-girlfriends on the back of their rear wings then?
I can go with that ...it's a fair comment . I agree with all of your post Mike, the above is very true. And it will be interesting to see, if he can't get a grip on this, he will keep screwing up. Another factor IMO is the pressure on him, press, hype,whatever. As a rookie when he first stepped into F1 there wasn't any, just plain underdog doing his best and it was pretty amazing. This trait of him making a mistake shows, when the pressure is at it's height ie when all he has to do bring it home, but no thats good enough he pushes it ,and what happen's panic ,red mist when someone jumps him or whatever, brain fade, bang. If he resolves it, which like you say should come as he matures, he could well be in the record books, if not, he deserves all the flak he gets.
