Lewis Hamilton
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StevieBee said:
LDN said:
There’d not be enough global bandwidth to cope!! The internet would freeze and as a result, global banking systems would faulter; medical records lost; military exercises, personnel and equipment would go haywire; it would be the end of civilisation as we know it! And that’s just from the three or four anti-Hamilton posters here on PistonHeads 
Had the internet been around in Senna's day, it would certainly have broken. Instead, all we had was the letters page in Autosport which I recall were regularly populated with sternly-worded calls for life-time bans and such like.This was in a time when words like 'outrageous' and 'abominable' were all the rage. Not the 't
t', 'tosser' and 'knob wipes' we have to today.
E34-3.2 said:
Fascinating to read the comments about people defending Schumacher or Senna for deliberately cheating or driving in another driver then criticising Hamilton if he says something like he doesn't like vanilla ice cream... 
Brilliant.... But remember that to many on this thread he's of mixed race and uses social media so negitive comments about LH are perfectly fair.
Edited by threespires on Sunday 18th November 10:41
Gaz. said:
Did JMB make up rules and apply them retrospectively, stripping people of wins and handing them to favoured rivals? Did he overlook illegal cars and allow them to keep their points won with such cars? Did he fine any teams $99m for being owned by a ?
However, Balestre has also been accused of using his power for more than it was intended. In 1989, after Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost collided at Suzuka, there were implications in Autosport magazine that Balestre was involved in manipulating the World Championship in favour of Prost, as Senna was disqualified from race victory, fined, and suspended. This ultimately led to Max Mosley's decision to run for the FISA presidency. Senna fell out with Balestre who threatened to revoke his super license but was included on the 1990 entry list. However, when Senna controversially collided with Prost in 1990 at the same Suzuka circuit, Balestre did not intervene or sanction the Brazilian. Years later, after leaving the presidency of FIA, Balestre admitted to having acted to benefit Prost in 1989.?Clearly just targetting Hamilton. Clear he didn't mean what is being stated.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/formula1/mercedes-...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/formula1/mercedes-...
ELUSIVEJIM said:
Clearly just targetting Hamilton. Clear he didn't mean what is being stated.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/formula1/mercedes-...
Hard to find controversy in that at all. A land of millionaires and complete poverty, you'd barely be human if you visited and weren't conflicted.https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/formula1/mercedes-...
ELUSIVEJIM said:
However, Balestre has also been accused of using his power for more than it was intended. In 1989, after Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost collided at Suzuka, there were implications in Autosport magazine that Balestre was involved in manipulating the World Championship in favour of Prost, as Senna was disqualified from race victory, fined, and suspended. This ultimately led to Max Mosley's decision to run for the FISA presidency. Senna fell out with Balestre who threatened to revoke his super license but was included on the 1990 entry list. However, when Senna controversially collided with Prost in 1990 at the same Suzuka circuit, Balestre did not intervene or sanction the Brazilian. Years later, after leaving the presidency of FIA, Balestre admitted to having acted to benefit Prost in 1989.
Total rubbish. Balestre never admitted anything. To say that Balestre acted to benefit Prost shows the person who wrote that (if ever written) didn't have a clue about the relation these 2 had. People love making stories about the past. Mosley didn't go to FISA for the reason you mentioned, but hey, I guess the Sun news paper is a specialist F1 paper for some. E34-3.2 said:
Total rubbish. Balestre never admitted anything. To say that Balestre acted to benefit Prost shows the person who wrote that (if ever written) didn't have a clue about the relation these 2 had. People love making stories about the past. Mosley didn't go to FISA for the reason you mentioned, but hey, I guess the Sun news paper is a specialist F1 paper for some.
Perhaps you should change the information with your knowledge.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Balestre
ELUSIVEJIM said:
Perhaps you should change the information with your knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Balestre
I have already seen the Wikipedia article. If you use Wikipedia as your source for the life of Balestre I understand why you come out with some terrible facts. You should have watch Balestre on French TV and read article of L'équipe new s paper at the time then then, you will understand the fraud being those kind of articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Balestre
I still remember a picture of Prost storming off a meeting with Balestre at the time... I doubt Balestre will have helped Prost on anything as I don't remember seeing any of thee sharing kind words in the french press.
So what do you make of Honda making more powerful engines for Senna than for Prost? And Honda engineers not sharing informations with Prost? Surely as it doesn't fit the nice Senna story, it must be untrue, no?
voila Elusivejim,
If you want to know a bit more about Balestre and why he didn't last at the head of fIA, look no further than FOCA and Ferrari V Balestre and Max being a close friend of Bernie. Nothing to do with Senna when Balestre left. He as well controversially stop group B. Ferrari and Balestre where the worst enemies... guess who Prost was driving for then? he nearly got the 24hours of Lemans stopped as well as the Dakar rally. he did not want large constructors to kill the competition. He got Jean Todt against him as well. The man was so tough to deal with and refused big teams such as Ferrari to impose their rules, that was his goal.
A few lines in this article:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/formule1/2008/03/28/02008-2...
If you want to know a bit more about Balestre and why he didn't last at the head of fIA, look no further than FOCA and Ferrari V Balestre and Max being a close friend of Bernie. Nothing to do with Senna when Balestre left. He as well controversially stop group B. Ferrari and Balestre where the worst enemies... guess who Prost was driving for then? he nearly got the 24hours of Lemans stopped as well as the Dakar rally. he did not want large constructors to kill the competition. He got Jean Todt against him as well. The man was so tough to deal with and refused big teams such as Ferrari to impose their rules, that was his goal.
A few lines in this article:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/formule1/2008/03/28/02008-2...
Edited by E34-3.2 on Friday 16th November 12:01
I actually think it's sad that modern F1 drivers would not want the number one on their race car after winning a Championship.
It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
I love the fact that he wants to run ’44’, even when he is champion, which is a lot of the time! I think it is a really pure racer thing. That number means a lot to him, I think it is really cool to reject the number one he is entitled to use, shows a kind of inner confidence he does not feel the need to display it.
ELUSIVEJIM said:
I actually think it's sad that modern F1 drivers would not want the number one on their race car after winning a Championship.
It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
Absolute load of cobblers.It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
Why the double spacing all the way through?
ELUSIVEJIM said:
I actually think it's sad that modern F1 drivers would not want the number one on their race car after winning a Championship.
It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
I couldn't care less what number is on the car as long as he keeps driving the way he has this season. You really do need to find something serious in life to focus on frankly!It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
cb1965 said:
ELUSIVEJIM said:
I actually think it's sad that modern F1 drivers would not want the number one on their race car after winning a Championship.
It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
I couldn't care less what number is on the car as long as he keeps driving the way he has this season. You really do need to find something serious in life to focus on frankly!It's something I feel should be mandatory.
Taken from Autosport.
Lewis Hamilton has explained why he ran the number one on his Mercedes Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first practice, even though he dislikes it.
The world champion has elected not to use #1 in any of his seasons as reigning world champion since F1's rules were changed for 2014 to allow drivers to pick their own race numbers.
But Hamilton received special dispensation to replace the #44 on the front of his car with #1 in Abu Dhabi, which he used in FP1 before switching back to his original number for the second session.
"I personally don't like it, I don't like it at all," said Hamilton on Friday evening. "It was just for one session, it doesn't really mean anything.
"The reason I did it is because I've been here for six years and since we've been world champions [in 2014, '15, '17, '18] we've never had the number one on the car and I thought it would just be cool.
"I remember when McLaren had number one when Jenson [Button] won the world title and he moved [from Brawn] and brought it with him.
"It's strange that McLaren could then have number one - the next team can, wherever you go."
Hamilton said part of his motivation for using the number as a one-off was for his Mercedes team members.
"I remember the engineers, or the mechanics, asking me at one stage would I ever do it," he added.
"I thought it would be cool to just have it on the car for one session so at least they will have a picture somewhere that they can be really proud of that we were number one.
"44 is my special number, and in actual fact everyone in the team or on my car particularly were saying to me that when they are travelling they'll see a bus #44 and then they will see a flight or a seat #44.
"It's becoming part of their lives, which is great because that's exactly how it is with me."
But yes, who cares what number is on the car... not sure a number should be mandatory either.
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