I think they’d probably also beat Rosberg, or be on par, but they’re not as good as Hamilton. Lewis has proven strong even with terrible equipment (late stages of his drive with McLaren), and even beat Alonso as a rookie. I totally understand people not liking Lewis for her personality, and it even grates on me…

I’d also like to see some variation of that for car improvements. The worst teams can have unlimited budgets and do what they want, where as the top finishers are only allowed a few upgrades. That’ll never happen of course, because of advertising dollars, but it’d be cool.

It should be pretty obvious why he mentioned he was black, and the Tiger comparison was completely appropriate. He means that because of Lewis (and Tiger), black people are showing an interest in a sport that they weren’t before. Probably not the most PC way of putting things, but it’s the basic principle.

Oh absolutely. I’m glad the networks played some clips from that race over the weekend during their JB tributes.

Verstappen’s Brazil race is the single best piece of driving I’ve ever seen (wasn’t around for the Senna/early Shumi era). Flat out unbelieveable what he was able to do in the wet, and I can’t wait to see how strong he’ll be in a year or two with a car designed with him in mind.

This. I guess folks don’t realize how slowly Hamilton was driving to bunch the field. The fact that he was able to drive so slowly, and then pull away in the first sector to keep Nico from passing under DRS is incredible and one hell of a driving feat. He easily could have been 1-2 seconds/lap quicker.

I agree, the current formula is pretty bad, and although the cars will be faster, the racing will be no better next year. And the standing restarts for every safety car is an awful idea. All it’s going to do is increase the probabilities of crashes, which will bring out more safety cars and then further crashes, and…

Dude, stop with this. They’ve long wrapped up the constructors championship. The 1-2 finish is absolutely meaningless to anyone but Rosberg.

If they park him in Australia, he’ll leave the team and be welcomed by any of the other teams on the grid he chooses to race for. He’s always been competitive, even with garbage cars. Like his personality or not, he’s one of, if not the best driver on the grid. Tied with Alonso, and followed closely by Verstappen and…

They won an absolute shit load of money for the Constructors championship...three times. They’re not worried about that, or they’d never allow the two to even be within 2 seconds of each other.

It’s a very strange dynamic. I can’t believe they actually asked him to speed up. I understand that they wanted the win, but that wasn’t really in danger. It looks really bad that after all the “we’ll let them race” statements, they really didn’t want them to race afterall.

You’re joking, right? Who in their right mind would want to see a processional over some actual racing and strategy. Answer: nobody. That’s why it’s been nothing but complaining for the last few years, because the Silver Arrows are so dominant it’s no problem for them to pull 1-2's. I’d much more respect a team that…

A shitty way to win a championship is to settle for 2nd’s and 3rd’s down the stretch. It was what he needed to do, so I don’t hold that against him, but if you’re going to be so obtuse as to think Lewis’ strategy wasn’t perfectly reasonable, then you won’t understand much else either. The win didn’t matter to Nico as…

What the hell good does another 1-2 finish do? The Constructors champ. is long in the bag, the driver’s title can only be won by a MB driver, there’s no more races to get the cars prepped for, nor will they be able to use these cars for next year. There’s absolutely no reason to have a 1-2 over allowing the guys to…

What drugs are you on? The race win didn’t matter for Nico, Lewis has to keep him close for a potential 4th place finish, and that’s exactly what he did. It’s the very same thing that any driver on the grid would have done in the same position, don’t fool yourself.

Nico wasn’t battling him for the championship. He was battling the RB’s and Ferrari for a podium. Ham could easily have pulled 30-45 seconds lead on him over the race, but that wasn’t a strategy that would win him the championship.

If he speeds up, he helps Nico. His only chance was to slow Nico enough to let Vettel and Verstappen get past. Ham speeds up = he rolls over and lets Nico win.

Ah, got it. None of the media addressed that, I only saw “tiebreaker: 2nd place finishes”.

When did I say they shouldn’t win? I said they should let them fight on track instead of trying to intervene from the pit lane.

It’s not just been this season. In the 3 years they’ve been in this car, Nico hasn’t passed Lewis one time and made it stick.