Who is responsible for start the latest crash theory ?
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I just wonder if it was ever possible to find out the real source of the latest story to break which seems to be growing arms and legs that Hamilton caused the shunt between Webber and Vittel.
From the two pictures in today's Telegraph it look like a load of old cobblers. Someone was not awake in my book.
I am now by some standards an old fart, I retired at the end of 1964 having raced with Jim Clark and Jack Brabham plus many of the other GP drivers who also competed in the Saloon Car events, now called Touring Cars. I gave Gerry Marshall his first competitive drive earlier in the sixties at Brands Hatch and he returned the compliment many years later when he passed his factory TVR Griffith on to me instead of it going back to Blackpool. It was great fun and would hang it's tail out in all gears. Many times approaching ninety degrees, but strangely inspite of pushing it regularly to the limit it was one car I never spun.
Next he dragged me back onto the circuits on various track days he ran, he reckonned that an intolerant old bastard was a good bet to control a car from the passenger seat. Have only mentioned the above in case there are thoughts that I do not know one end of a car from the other and drive a Bond Minicar.
In other words I personally think the whole affair stinks of fish, either Spanish or Italian and Hamilton is the talented sucker in the middle, the guns are I think really pointed at Ron Dennis and unsettling Hamilton before China is a good way of sorting out two birds with one turd.
The last word is not a typo there is too much of a smell building up in China and it is not "fried rice"
It would be very interesting to witness Button and Hamilton competing on level terms with the same machinery, now that would be a real two horse race!
From the two pictures in today's Telegraph it look like a load of old cobblers. Someone was not awake in my book.
I am now by some standards an old fart, I retired at the end of 1964 having raced with Jim Clark and Jack Brabham plus many of the other GP drivers who also competed in the Saloon Car events, now called Touring Cars. I gave Gerry Marshall his first competitive drive earlier in the sixties at Brands Hatch and he returned the compliment many years later when he passed his factory TVR Griffith on to me instead of it going back to Blackpool. It was great fun and would hang it's tail out in all gears. Many times approaching ninety degrees, but strangely inspite of pushing it regularly to the limit it was one car I never spun.
Next he dragged me back onto the circuits on various track days he ran, he reckonned that an intolerant old bastard was a good bet to control a car from the passenger seat. Have only mentioned the above in case there are thoughts that I do not know one end of a car from the other and drive a Bond Minicar.
In other words I personally think the whole affair stinks of fish, either Spanish or Italian and Hamilton is the talented sucker in the middle, the guns are I think really pointed at Ron Dennis and unsettling Hamilton before China is a good way of sorting out two birds with one turd.
The last word is not a typo there is too much of a smell building up in China and it is not "fried rice"
It would be very interesting to witness Button and Hamilton competing on level terms with the same machinery, now that would be a real two horse race!
Of course as Sherlock Holmes said, eliminate the probable and whatever remains, however improbable is the answer, so....
Torro Rosso were rather keen on getting Vettel's penalty removed, regardless of the intra-team issues over the safety car 'incident'. Tost and Berger trawl everything for evidence that their driver was, at least, in the wrong place at the right time. During their investigation the YouTube clip turns up, so they forward it to the FIA.
Word gets out that there is film evidence and in between a couple of drivers have criticised Hamilton's driving. Hamilton's camp are rather worried that his now likely championship may be tainted by the Spygate affair. So why not give the impression that the establishment is against him? Now how could this be done? Perhaps by giving the media the impression that there's a witch hunt against him? That he's under investigation for his driving and his 12-point lead could be slashed by 10 points?
It's possible but is it probable?
Torro Rosso were rather keen on getting Vettel's penalty removed, regardless of the intra-team issues over the safety car 'incident'. Tost and Berger trawl everything for evidence that their driver was, at least, in the wrong place at the right time. During their investigation the YouTube clip turns up, so they forward it to the FIA.
Word gets out that there is film evidence and in between a couple of drivers have criticised Hamilton's driving. Hamilton's camp are rather worried that his now likely championship may be tainted by the Spygate affair. So why not give the impression that the establishment is against him? Now how could this be done? Perhaps by giving the media the impression that there's a witch hunt against him? That he's under investigation for his driving and his 12-point lead could be slashed by 10 points?
It's possible but is it probable?
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