Sir Jackie Stewart says Raikkonen at fault in Canada

http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/story/8241580/Stewart-supports-Hamilton-in-pit-lane-crash

What is Jackie Stewart smoking?

 

If LH can miss major things like flashing red lights and parked cars, the radio must be burning up the airwaves with all the subtle items an inexperienced driver would need to know, like braking points, turn in points, shift points, and steering input that they would need to communicate on every lap.

 

MaleficVTwin wrote:
Just what I was wondering. He can blame McLaren all he wants, but it comes down to the set of eyes in the car itself. If I royally screwed up at a new job after having done it for 15 months, I don't think I could get away with blaming my boss.

+1 i am tired of how society baby's pro athletes. is Lewis not a professional and why should anyone give him the benefit of the doubt for something that normal bystanders must adhere to everyday!? give me a break, this and other comments make me wonder why do we bother to give Jackie Stewart the opportunity to always rant his opinions?!

 

Jacko was a racer, but is old now.
Buy spectacles please!

 

From his history, I expected good things from Hamilton. But the Brits have made a religion of him.

Unfair to Hami: he's an amazing rookie. But even Gawd couldn't live up to the hype the Brits have laid on the poor kid.
(Hami's manager isn't helping things, either.)

 

past WDCs like Stewart, Lauda, & Keke talk full of crap most of the time.

 

According to a post-race interview with Norbert Haug, they couldn't see the red light from their place at the pits...

 

How about the guy behind the steering wheel, could he see the red light?

 

You guys are way off base. Stewart's comments are pretty balanced. A driver at the pinnacle of the sport has thousands of things to consider in the car. How often does pit out actually have a stop light? Not too often. Success in F1 depends on teamwork and the team did not give 100%. "Look, the light's on" doesn't really provide the driver much information and given that a closed pit out is an anomaly, they let their driver down.

For the Stewart haters--has anyone here won three world championships like Stewart? No, didn't think so. How about any sanctioned, wheel-to-wheel competition? No, didn't think so, either.

 

Have another drink....its the mate in the crate who has the final say. LH missed the RED LIGHT not the team. No excuses.

 

Lol, well, obviously not

 

Totally agree.
Kimi and Kubica were fighting each other and still saw the red light. Hamilton on the other hand could not manage such complicated task. This was not inexperience as Jackie called, it was a simple brain fade.

 

The only person responsible for watching the pit out situation is the driver. Ultimately he is the only one in control of his car. It's called situational awareness and Hamilton may be a very fast driver, but he seems lacking in this quality.

 

Yes. The light is btw the same that your fav driver overlooked last year and many on here thought the penalty was unfair.

 

Has Shumi weighed in yet? Based on the above, his opinion would trump Stewart's, eh?

 

What seems totally unfair to me is the whole idea that your dominant lead can be wiped out because another car wrecks on the track causing the safety car to come out bunching the pack and then when pitting have others "pass" you because of pit problems.
LH must have been frantic.

 

It was a deliberate gamble to fuel light, get pole, and try to get a gap. Safety cars are a factor everyone expected to play in Canada.
His gamble just didn't pay off.

Nothing dominant or unfair about it.

 

agreed

 

Ron,

Last year you were an apologist for Massa, saying it was the team's fault that he did not stop for the red light. This year you are blaming the driver.

Make up your mind.

 

The fact that Massa did get the penalty last year should have been mentioned by every team manager of every car on the grid to their driver the morning of the race. It is assumed that in Canada there will be at leasat one SC, so the red ligth in the pits is also going to happen. Either Lewis didn't get a reminder, or he ignored it. No excuse. In light of Massa's DSQ in 2007, Hamilton got off easy. A 10 place penalty to start a race is much better than a penalty that takes you completely out of the race.

Back to Stewart, to me he is a hero. But this myopic support by anyone from the British Isles of Hamilton is BS. That includes silly comments by Jackie Stewart. Lewis is now in F1, he is paid accordingly, he blew the championship last year by being stupid. OK, cough that up to inexperience.

Now this year he rear ends one of his closest rivals. In the pits. He shoulda known about the red light in the pits of Canada, he was there last year when Massa was DSQ'd. As an F1 driver he is supposed to have a depth perception better than any of us, and as an F1 driver he shoulda paid more attention when driving out of the pits. Bottom line, Lewis Hamilton is overrated at this point in his career and is continuing to make stupid mistakes. Not to say he will not mature and become a super star someday, he might.

If Massa had run into the rear of another car in the pits as did LH, there would be a call for his head. I can not understand why people rush to defend Hamilton. Its like the Brits have not had a WDC in a century and Lewis is now the Chosen One. He has made more mistakes than Massa and Raikkonen combined, including blowing the WDC. Seems like a nice kid, I do not think he is at all arrogant, but he is not the second coming of Schumacher or Senna by any means.

Stewart is wrong, and Hamilton got off easy.

 

My mind is made up, I never had a question. Do not try to make the situations the same they are not by any stretch of the imagination. The team should have informed Massa about the red light last year, even Todt made this statement. At the end of the day, Massa should have seen the light. This event of last year obviously remained in the Scuderia management's mind as Raikkonen was aware enough to stop this year. Somebody must have given the Ferrari drivers a reminder.

But we are NOT talking about missing the red light, we are talking about a professonal race driver running into the rear of a stopped car in pit lane. Actually two stopped cars, side by side. Seems to me a driver would be awake as he is leaving pit lane. That is the driver's fault, get real Ted, Lewis Hamilton made another one of his stupid mistakes. Massa did not run into anybody last year.

 

Pity Button doesn't have the drive. He might've made a more balanced approach to the job.