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dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
Given his recent performance that shouldn’t be too much of a problem
Limejuice
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I reckon he feels his race is outside of his hands. The team tell him where to practise a couple of starts. The team brings him in at a strategic time, which Hammy can't appreciate from behind the wheel. He'll be frustrated that he's doing all the hard yards behind the wheel, and he keeps getting time penalties.
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Hope above expectation now I feel
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Yes I think I'm off too as my stream has gone to shit, see you all for the next race in Germany
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Mika Salo and Finnish TV
It appears that the Finnish steward Mika Salo has passed on information about Lewis Hamilton's penalty to the Finnish TV channel C More. The channel reported that the penalty would come for Hamilton well before it was officially announced. Mika Salo is said to have passed on information to C More, well before the penalty was announced by F1. Ten minutes before it was announced by the stewards that Hamilton would be punished twice five seconds, the commentators already reported that the punishment would come. What is even more striking is that the investigation had not been completed at that time. The Finnish channel also reported that Hamilton would receive two penalty points twice on his super-licence. These had initially only become two and it was announced earlier this evening that they would be waived altogether.
Incidentally, this is not the first time that important information has been forwarded at an early stage. Salo himself has worked as a commentator, and during his duties as a steward it is more common for Finnish television to have this kind of information earlier. If the rumour is true, the FIA may intervene.
It appears that the Finnish steward Mika Salo has passed on information about Lewis Hamilton's penalty to the Finnish TV channel C More. The channel reported that the penalty would come for Hamilton well before it was officially announced. Mika Salo is said to have passed on information to C More, well before the penalty was announced by F1. Ten minutes before it was announced by the stewards that Hamilton would be punished twice five seconds, the commentators already reported that the punishment would come. What is even more striking is that the investigation had not been completed at that time. The Finnish channel also reported that Hamilton would receive two penalty points twice on his super-licence. These had initially only become two and it was announced earlier this evening that they would be waived altogether.
Incidentally, this is not the first time that important information has been forwarded at an early stage. Salo himself has worked as a commentator, and during his duties as a steward it is more common for Finnish television to have this kind of information earlier. If the rumour is true, the FIA may intervene.
Limejuice
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Hammy has been getting some bum steers from his team recently. The unnoticed pit-lane-closed alert didn't show up on the engineers' panels - 10 seconds drive-through. The team gave Hammy a precise location for two practice starts - 2 x 5 second penalties.
I know Toto is big on the no-blame culture, but someone - and it might as well be Hammy - needs to tell the team that mistakes like these make the whole team look incompetent, and that means all 1,000 employees of Mercedes F1, and that is a betrayal.
More to the point, they are carelessly throwing away world championship points, and if Hammy wants to get dramatic, they are jeopardising the chances of a driver becoming the most successful driver of all time. Does Mercedes want to go down in history as the team that failed him at the final hurdle? He ought to lay it on the line: he doesn't fuck up on track; the team doesn't fuck up its race engineering.
That said, I think Hammy has too many personal irons in the fire at the moment, and he's losing focus. He could spend less time doing sketches for Tommy Hilfiger and more time boning up on the rules of F1. He'll have all the time in the world for distractions after he's retired.
I know Toto is big on the no-blame culture, but someone - and it might as well be Hammy - needs to tell the team that mistakes like these make the whole team look incompetent, and that means all 1,000 employees of Mercedes F1, and that is a betrayal.
More to the point, they are carelessly throwing away world championship points, and if Hammy wants to get dramatic, they are jeopardising the chances of a driver becoming the most successful driver of all time. Does Mercedes want to go down in history as the team that failed him at the final hurdle? He ought to lay it on the line: he doesn't fuck up on track; the team doesn't fuck up its race engineering.
That said, I think Hammy has too many personal irons in the fire at the moment, and he's losing focus. He could spend less time doing sketches for Tommy Hilfiger and more time boning up on the rules of F1. He'll have all the time in the world for distractions after he's retired.
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It won't help matters that the Netflix team, shooting the next Drive To Survive series, were filming with Mercedes at Sochi, in hope of capturing Lewis equalling Michael's record.
Netflix to join Mercedes at Sochi as Hamilton bids to equal Schumacher's record
The team filming F1 documentary Drive to Survive will join Mercedes for this weekend's Russian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton bids to equal Michal Schumacher's career wins record.
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Wasn't it last year they screwed up in Germany when the film crew were around too?
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Mick Schumacher going to be given a go in the Alfa Romeo in Practice session 1 this weekend. Callum Ilott will have a go in a Haas
Schumacher set for F1 race weekend debut
Schumacher set for F1 race weekend debut
