Lewis is a prat!

As a fan of Lewis, despite his talent, his stupidity and perpetual foot-in-mouth syndrome never ceases to amaze me. As one said, he needs to engage his brain in gear before he starts shooting his mouth off on Twitter.

If you look at some of the Mercedes strategies this year I’d say Ross might not be as good as he was cracked up to be.

Like many I don’t think Lewis will be as well cushioned at Mercedes as he was at McLaren. Sure Mercedes haven’t bought him to waste money but I think they will be surprised and caught out by how spoon feed Lewis needs to be. Further I’m not sure if Lewis is humble enough to ask for the help or if Mercedes have the experience to provide it.

Mandatory LOL at Lewis for being a twit on twitter, again.

To be fair, I guess we don't know whether Hamilton actually needs spoon-feeding or not so it may never be an issue.

Interesting point about him not realising that he might be expected to do more than stamp his right hoof all the time though.
In that case I expect he'd be in for a rude awakening pretty quickly though cos any team who was expecting more from him would soon make their requirements known.

Must admit surprise and lack of confidence at Red Bull after a second very comfortable win for Vettel. More because of the dominance in Korea, save an engine fault and that Ferrari are struggling in qualifying and race pace not quite enough. McLaren have in my view abandoned the season, certainly with Hamilton and Button has been too far back for some time. The change in attitude and puzzlement by Hamilton spoke volumes in McLaren's undeclared decision and expect little more than testing and evolution to next year's car from now on.

I can never hear his name without thinking that he is a lost cause, a "no win" driver, if you will.

Good result for Sauber and Koybiashi, who is the lady on the Sauber Pit wall i don't think i have see her before and where was Peter Sauber

HER?

That's Monisha Kaltenborn. She is, erm, CEO of Sauber F1.

OH right thank you has she been on the pit wall before then?

haha... not just me then... I like to use his full title of Mr Kobayashi

yup all season and the previous one.

She has been with the team a long time, originally taking care of the teams' legal and corporate side.
But she took on a bigger role after BMW involvement ended.

She owns 33.3% of the team, which Peter transferred to her earlier this year, and is expected to take over the team when Peter decides to give it up.
It is good to see a woman working in a high power position in F1, which is dominated by men.

Is that the lady you meant though?

I was watching the BBC commentary last night and I noticed the cameras were often showing an asian woman in a Sauber uniform but it wasn't MK.
MK would be out on the pit wall whereas this person was either in the garage or hospitality area.
Dunno if that was, maybe, Kamui's missus or something?

Monisha is to take over Peter Sauber's role of Team Principal with immediate effect.

This makes her the first Team Principal in the history of F1.

Does it? I would have thought Enzo Ferrari would have disputed that claim.

Was he in charge of Alfa Romeo?

Yeah, I think he would

She is the first Female Team Principal in the history of F1.

As far as we know. Don't forget the cardinals were once fooled into electing a female Pope.

Well Lewis and McLaren now say he had a damaged suspension.


http://formula-one.speedtv.com/artic...ssue-in-japan/

Isn't it a little late to notice that after the race?

Maybe this will be the start of more female involvement in the sport. There have been precious little representation from women in Formula one, it is a bout time we saw a resurgence of women in the driver's seat.

As long as they're there on merit rather than as part of some publicity stunt which may go tragically wrong.

Ouch!

Speaking of which... has there been any further information about the crash?

There's THIS. It's not about the crash, itself, but it's great to see Villota looking so well.

Given that the other teams demanded proof that there was nothing wrong with the Marussia car which might be dangerous to other cars and drivers and they seem to have accepted the evidence they were given, it's probably only right for the rest of the investigation to be conducted discreetly as there's nothing to be gained by, potentially, publicly humiliating Villota.

I suppose that other teams might decide that there's something to be gained by suggesting that other teams have test drivers (or development drivers) who present the same risk but until they actually do have an accident it'll be hard to prove and after they have an accident it'd be rather distasteful to pursue.


Meanwhile, I've never really understood why McLaren struggle so much at Korea.
I can see why they might struggle at Suzuka, given that so much of the circuit is high-speed curves but Korea includes 3 honking great straights and most of the rest of the track is "point and squirt" in nature with only a couple of long, high-speed, corners in the middle.

You'd think that, much like the difference between Button and Hamilton at Spa, it'd just be a case of McLaren extending a lead through the 1st sector then RBR clawing some of that back through the middle sector and then both being about equal in the last bit.

I was going to crack a joke but thought better of it. Wish I had now.

So, just watching FP3 at Korea...

I wonder how long Webber is going to stick it out at RBR?
I mean, I can see how he'd want to stay there while it's the best car but as long as they continue to only build one and a half cars every year he's really never going to get the opportunity he thinks it'll provide.