Lewis Hamilton (Vol. 2)

Lewis Hamilton (Vol. 2)

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vdn

9,142 posts

218 months

Monday 25th July 2022
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Register1 said:
Seems like TW wants LH gone
Just a matter of time now.
Liability.
rofl

talksthetorque

10,820 posts

150 months

Monday 25th July 2022
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Register1 said:
Seems like TW wants LH gone
Just a matter of time now.
Liability.
WTF are you talking about? confused
Well since he's been there he's lost one third of the WDCs, over half his races, told them to paint the cars a different colour and. and .and.

Is the rumour going round still about Stroll getting the drive as him and Lawrence are good mates?

rolleyes

Here you go
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

ghost83

5,601 posts

205 months

Monday 25th July 2022
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There is talk of Lewis staying with the team until he’s at 400 races which is 5yrs! He’s their most successful driver they arent going to get rid of him anytime soon! He’s said he’s enjoying the challenge of the hunt and helping Mercedes get the car back where it needs to be

fomb

1,405 posts

226 months

Monday 25th July 2022
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If you're talking great Lewis drives, don't forget Turkey 2006 (although that was GP2). Watching that GP2 race back (it's on YouTube) he was on another level.

Drmarkf

24 posts

38 months

Monday 25th July 2022
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entropy said:
The conditions weren't that atrocious.

There was intermittent rain, light showers but it was cold and a lot of standing water and it was between inters and full wets.

Hamilton stuck with inters all race - even with a heavy shower at the end - whereas everyone were changing to different tyres and spinning off left, right and centre. Title contender Massa span off more than most; LH had an off at the Abbey chicane was his only error of the day and even that didn't stop him head and shoulders above any driver that day.

Still to this day LH says it is his best race.

LH has won in much worse conditions but just as good as his 2008 British GP notably 2007 Japanese GP and 2016 Brazilian GP though Max Verstappen got all the plaudits on that day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCURZ4c2sM
Yes, they were more highly changeable than dreadful.
I was in the open grandstand at Club, yelling myself hoarse: the most fun I’ve ever had with water running down the back of my neck 🤣

As you imply, you could easily see LCH was reading the track conditions moment by moment, varying his line each lap as the wet areas changed.

We were upwind from most of the track and regularly looked over our shoulders to see what was blowing in. In the last phase, Raikkonen was catching Lewis briskly, but then pitted and (I think I’m right) kept his worn intermediates on - we immediately did our over-the-shoulder weather check, to be met by another advancing wall of black cumulus. ‘Kimi’s got the wrong tyres on’ buzzed around the grandstand and, sure enough, 5 minutes later the rain hit the circuit and Kimi’s challenge washed away.

The Scuderia’s strategy choices still haven’t improved, eh…

paulw123

4,124 posts

205 months

Tuesday 26th July 2022
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ghost83 said:
There is talk of Lewis staying with the team until he’s at 400 races which is 5yrs! He’s their most successful driver they arent going to get rid of him anytime soon! He’s said he’s enjoying the challenge of the hunt and helping Mercedes get the car back where it needs to be
I really hope so, F1 will be a lot poorer without him. We are fortunate to have some great younger talent but If anyone can pull something out the bag when it matters it’s Lewis.

Just hope he’s got enough to get a win this year to keep
His win in every season record.

MustangGT

13,194 posts

295 months

Wednesday 27th July 2022
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Register1 said:
Seems like TW wants LH gone
Just a matter of time now.
Liability.
Whatever you are on, I want some!

paulguitar

30,206 posts

128 months

Wednesday 27th July 2022
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MustangGT said:
Register1 said:
Seems like TW wants LH gone
Just a matter of time now.
Liability.
Whatever you are on, I want some!
Year, even though it was presumably posted when drunk, utterly bizarre. silly

Muzzer79

12,062 posts

202 months

Wednesday 27th July 2022
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Register1 said:
Seems like TW wants LH gone
Just a matter of time now.
Liability.
Can we all just post random rubbish that doesn't make any sense, or is this privilege just reserved for you?

General Price

5,661 posts

198 months

Wednesday 27th July 2022
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Muzzer79 said:
Can we all just post random rubbish that doesn't make any sense, or is this privilege just reserved for you?
Mercedes are getting Ferrari engines and Red Bulls floors for the next race.

My mate Daz told me and he knows because his sister went out with a lad who used to work at Silverstone.

Dr Interceptor

8,151 posts

211 months

Wednesday 27th July 2022
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My mate Del just sold a pair of Ferrari 2019 fuel pumps down the Nags Head to this geezer called Toto for a score!

CoolHands

20,780 posts

210 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2022
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LH has officially bought into the The Denver Broncos (part of the “ownership group”). I seem to recall this was spoken about some time ago (maybe on here?). Is it just a place to park money ie purely an investment vehicle although (rich people) might claim otherwise?

https://mobile.twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/155...

GCH

4,116 posts

217 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2022
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CoolHands said:
LH has officially bought into the The Denver Broncos (part of the “ownership group”). I seem to recall this was spoken about some time ago (maybe on here?). Is it just a place to park money ie purely an investment vehicle although (rich people) might claim otherwise?

https://mobile.twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/155...
Much like charitable donations that can be written off at tax time, sports team ownership brings tax benefits.
Ownership of teams (and the associated players contracts, stadiums, rights, etc) in the majority of cases here are considered “intangible assets” and can be written-off over a 15-year period.

RDMcG

19,951 posts

222 months

Wednesday 3rd August 2022
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GCH said:
Much like charitable donations that can be written off at tax time, sports team ownership brings tax benefits.
Ownership of teams (and the associated players contracts, stadiums, rights, etc) in the majority of cases here are considered “intangible assets” and can be written-off over a 15-year period.
This is quite a well-placed group and the tab is $4.5 billion of the team. Rob Walton of Walmart has personally put up $1.5 billion, so I would expect they will want a significant return.

glazbagun

14,841 posts

212 months

Sunday 7th August 2022
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Does Lewis own any of the Merc team? I recall there were some speedbumps as he and Toto were negotiating their current contracts.

Pflanzgarten

5,685 posts

40 months

InformationSuperHighway

6,895 posts

199 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Pflanzgarten said:
Fantastic, we will really miss him when he’s gone.

ch37

10,642 posts

236 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Pflanzgarten said:
It's a great interview, typical though that from that entire interview the takeaway for most media outlets is 'Hamilton turns down role in Top Gun'.

mattyn1

6,390 posts

170 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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ch37 said:
Pflanzgarten said:
It's a great interview, typical though that from that entire interview the takeaway for most media outlets is 'Hamilton turns down role in Top Gun'.




Edited by mattyn1 on Wednesday 10th August 06:29

Digga

43,433 posts

298 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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InformationSuperHighway said:
Pflanzgarten said:
Fantastic, we will really miss him when he’s gone.
I agree, but he’s got plenty of F1 in him yet and then there’s whatever is next.

I though he was extremely honest about himself there. I get his drive to help disadvantaged drivers into the sport. I just hope he means disadvantaged by race, sex and also class. To my mind there’s a lot of talent goes to waste for lack of opportunity.