Hamilton with egg on face - Twitter style
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Always been a bit meh about him and think everyone seems to give him a hardtime regardless, but he is a prickly, sulky little guy sometimes isn't he though?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/08/lewis-...
"McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, right, has backed down after accusing his team-mate Jenson Button of a lack of respect. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
Lewis Hamilton has been forced to apologise after taking a leaf out of Catherine Tate's book and accusing his McLaren team-mate Jenson Button of disrespecting him on Twitter.
Hamilton, who is leaving McLaren for Mercedes at the end of the year, was taking his cue from a tweet by a journalist suggesting Button had unfollowed him on the social networking site. It led Hamilton to criticise the 2009 world champion.
In a series of tweets on his official feed, Hamilton wrote: "Just noticed @jensonbutton unfollowed, thats a shame. After 3 years as teammates, I thought we respected one another but clearly he doesn't.
"Funny thing is, we are STILL teammates! All good tho, I plan on giving this team & fans all I got til I cross the finish line in brazil!!!"
But the 27-year-old was left embarrassed when he realised Button had not followed his Twitter account in the first place. "My bad, just found out Jenson never followed me," Hamilton tweeted. "Don't blame him! Need to be on Twitter more!"
The error marked the final chapter of a tough week for Hamilton. His move to Mercedes was the talk of the paddock at the Japanese Grand Prix and he refused to answer questions about it on Thursday.
Hamilton's Twitter apology is not the first time he has been trigger happy on the social networking site. At the Belgian Grand Prix he posted a picture of the telemetry from his and Button's qualifying laps, which the team quickly told him to remove due to the sensitive nature of the data."
Not a repost I trust.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/08/lewis-...
"McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, right, has backed down after accusing his team-mate Jenson Button of a lack of respect. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
Lewis Hamilton has been forced to apologise after taking a leaf out of Catherine Tate's book and accusing his McLaren team-mate Jenson Button of disrespecting him on Twitter.
Hamilton, who is leaving McLaren for Mercedes at the end of the year, was taking his cue from a tweet by a journalist suggesting Button had unfollowed him on the social networking site. It led Hamilton to criticise the 2009 world champion.
In a series of tweets on his official feed, Hamilton wrote: "Just noticed @jensonbutton unfollowed, thats a shame. After 3 years as teammates, I thought we respected one another but clearly he doesn't.
"Funny thing is, we are STILL teammates! All good tho, I plan on giving this team & fans all I got til I cross the finish line in brazil!!!"
But the 27-year-old was left embarrassed when he realised Button had not followed his Twitter account in the first place. "My bad, just found out Jenson never followed me," Hamilton tweeted. "Don't blame him! Need to be on Twitter more!"
The error marked the final chapter of a tough week for Hamilton. His move to Mercedes was the talk of the paddock at the Japanese Grand Prix and he refused to answer questions about it on Thursday.
Hamilton's Twitter apology is not the first time he has been trigger happy on the social networking site. At the Belgian Grand Prix he posted a picture of the telemetry from his and Button's qualifying laps, which the team quickly told him to remove due to the sensitive nature of the data."
Not a repost I trust.
Top sports people and Twitter is a perfect storm of the ability to talk directly to the masses with no checks or filters and the belief they should be in everyone's faces all the time with their every little thought and no checks or filters.
They are quite simply too full of their own self importance to be let loose with a tool like Twitter and that's what makes it so entertaining.
They are quite simply too full of their own self importance to be let loose with a tool like Twitter and that's what makes it so entertaining.
MocMocaMoc said:
A canny stupid thing for him to say, but what's equally stupid is that it made the headlines.
And I'm posting on a forum about it.
FFS.
And I'm posting on a forum about it.
FFS.
I agree.
A non-story turned into a massive story by every man and his dog because it's Hamilton.
Man makes mistake.
Man apologises for mistake.
Pretty funny mistake though
.LH is fast becoming a bit of a bellend IMO. He needs some decent management/advisors to straighten him out before he f
ks it up completely.
He needs either Brundle or Blundell to takeover his management & not the mob he has got now who care for nothing apart from the 'celebrity' culture.
LH is looking more & more like F1's equivalent of Ashley Cole or, worse still, John Terry.
ks it up completely.He needs either Brundle or Blundell to takeover his management & not the mob he has got now who care for nothing apart from the 'celebrity' culture.
LH is looking more & more like F1's equivalent of Ashley Cole or, worse still, John Terry.
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