RE: Hooning with Hamilton: PH Blog

[D200]

original guvnor said:

D200 said:

Actually jealousy isn't human nature.

It's more accurately described as an ugly and pointless trait but I don't see any jealous comments here. People are entitled to give their opinions.

I find the I love Chris/you're amazing etc comments more annoying than the ones questioning his opinions

Edited by D200 on Wednesday 5th February 21:42

i find that a bit odd. What's wrong with expressing your admiration for someone's work? Why is that annoying to you? Or is it when it is done in a sycophantic way?

I'm going to annoy you now because I'm going to say I really enjoy watching and reading Chris's stuff. He's a breath of fresh air in my opinion (although he's wrong about the Z4M Coupe!!)

I also really enjoy his work too but was a tad disappointed this article - he didn’t have a vid, proper photos or ask him many questions.

It was sadly a missed opportunity in my opinion.

I'd love to see more stuff like this with F1 drivers driving road cars and generally having a laugh where the reader/viewer gets to see more of their personality as opposed to the usual cooperate stuff we see during F1 coverage


Fair enough I know it's just a blog and maybe he had extremely limited time with him [such if the way with F1 drivers with all their commercial contracts] or wasn’t really allowed to 'officially' interview him but I wish he would had been able to chat to him a bit more.

PS I hope he has a follow up vid with DC as the last one was great, I enjoyed it more

[AbarthChris]

D200 said:

I also really enjoy his work too but was a tad disappointed this article - he didn’t have a vid, proper photos or ask him many questions.

It was sadly a missed opportunity in my opinion.

I'd love to see more stuff like this with F1 drivers driving road cars and generally having a laugh where the reader/viewer gets to see more of their personality as opposed to the usual cooperate stuff we see during F1 coverage


Fair enough I know it's just a blog and maybe he had extremely limited time with him [such if the way with F1 drivers with all their commercial contracts] or wasn’t really allowed to 'officially' interview him but I wish he would had been able to chat to him a bit more.

PS I hope he has a follow up vid with DC as the last one was great, I enjoyed it more

Christ, you're hard to please arent you?

Why can't people just enjoy it for what it was?

[OffdutyRockstar]

Itsnotagsr said:

People seem to forget that Lewis was booked by the Victorian Police a few years back at the Melbourne GP for "excessive tyre smoke". So seems like the guy doesn't mind the odd hoon.

Sorry but this popped into my mind straight away..



For some reason the mere mention of Lewis Hamilton does seem to provoke a strong reaction on both sides of the coin. For my bit I think he is a phenomenal talent and his character is probably quite misunderstood.

[Veeayt]

Two of the greatest!..














...photoshop challenges on PH

[DonkeyApple]

AbarthChris said:

Christ, you're hard to please arent you?

Why can't people just enjoy it for what it was?

But surely when such a split second opportunity arises no one involved would be remotely inconvenienced if they all stopped what they were doing and waited for you and your crew to set up the film equipment and positioned everything? But, to be honest, even then if I wasn't personally flown in to watch it and plied with complimentary coke and hookers while Monkey and Lewis cleaned by shoes outside I would be forced to find offense or lodge a complaint.

However, I am currently content to read the bit of the article where Monkey says he shakes Lewis's hand and pretend it reads that Lewis refused to shake his hand and then pissed on him while scratching his car as it allows me to justify some strange issue.

Maybe Hollywood will pick this up and we will be able to watch it all recreated in 3D by Van Diesel and Norman Wisdom anyway as no one likes to read stty, difficult words but wants to watch the movie instead.

Hopefully PH will buck up and stop using these 'word' things that are so complex to understand or impossible to use to discribe an event and stick to taking a full film crew everywhere or simply re-enacting everything. Maybe they could introduce a talking animal as well to increase the appeal and broadcast it on channel 71?

[D200]

AbarthChris said:

D200 said:

I also really enjoy his work too but was a tad disappointed this article - he didn’t have a vid, proper photos or ask him many questions.

It was sadly a missed opportunity in my opinion.

I'd love to see more stuff like this with F1 drivers driving road cars and generally having a laugh where the reader/viewer gets to see more of their personality as opposed to the usual cooperate stuff we see during F1 coverage


Fair enough I know it's just a blog and maybe he had extremely limited time with him [such if the way with F1 drivers with all their commercial contracts] or wasn’t really allowed to 'officially' interview him but I wish he would had been able to chat to him a bit more.

PS I hope he has a follow up vid with DC as the last one was great, I enjoyed it more

Christ, you're hard to please arent you?

Why can't people just enjoy it for what it was?

Christ to you. Please calm down - I am only giving my opinion if that is ok with you?

Christ, I just think the article was a bit lame given what it could have been - it could have been tweeted in 140 characters.

Christ, I would like to have seen a full video, article on this as it sounds very interesting.

Christ, forgive me for even saying this, I apologise profusely

Christ.

[Joe911]

Chris - well done, very lucky.

I have a new E63AMG Est with LSD. Great fun of course.

Can you tell me ... when you do major oversteer hoonage - do you use dnyno/rollers mode to stop the stability control cutting in? Just using the Sport mode doesn't fully disengage the systems and stops, for me, a sustained large angle slide. Maybe it can be done and I just don't have the technique/skill?

[Chris Harris]

Joe911 said:

Chris - well done, very lucky.

I have a new E63AMG Est with LSD. Great fun of course.

Can you tell me ... when you do major oversteer hoonage - do you use dnyno/rollers mode to stop the stability control cutting in? Just using the Sport mode doesn't fully disengage the systems and stops, for me, a sustained large angle slide. Maybe it can be done and I just don't have the technique/skill?

Hit sport mode, then hold the button down again to get rid of the ESP. Then hoon.

[V8KSN]

Really enjoyed that, great article Chris

Thank you

[Captain Muppet]

Alex said:

Captain Muppet said:

I remember Alistair McQueen winning the sideways challenge.

Years later I got to drive him on track, and he told me my steering technique for oversteer was wrong. I was in my third season of competitive drifting at the time, and I'd have loved to take him out in my drift car (which was in the car park) and get some pointers while driving properly sideways, but it didn't happen. Partly because getting my car on track would have required some tricky paperwork, but mostly because I was too embarrassed to ask him.

As a competitive drifter, you must be quite handy at it, so what did McQueen think was wrong with your technique?

I used the "letting the steering wheel slide through your hands" method of applying opposite lock. He wanted me to not let go of the wheel.

I'm not sure I have the skill required to apply that many turns of lock accurately enough in the time available using his technique while drifting. Most drifters seem to use the same technique as me.

[Greg_D]

Captain Muppet said:

Alex said:

Captain Muppet said:

I remember Alistair McQueen winning the sideways challenge.

Years later I got to drive him on track, and he told me my steering technique for oversteer was wrong. I was in my third season of competitive drifting at the time, and I'd have loved to take him out in my drift car (which was in the car park) and get some pointers while driving properly sideways, but it didn't happen. Partly because getting my car on track would have required some tricky paperwork, but mostly because I was too embarrassed to ask him.

As a competitive drifter, you must be quite handy at it, so what did McQueen think was wrong with your technique?

I used the "letting the steering wheel slide through your hands" method of applying opposite lock. He wanted me to not let go of the wheel.

I'm not sure I have the skill required to apply that many turns of lock accurately enough in the time available using his technique while drifting. Most drifters seem to use the same technique as me.

Quite, let the caster do the work. It'll settle just a little short of where you need it. Let it stop and give it a little extra steering and you are in a neutral slide.
I notice monkey does a sort of half way house of letting the wheel do the work but touching the wheel lightly at all times (presumably to mentally keep a tally on how many rotations it has done)

Horses for courses really...

[Greg_D]

OffdutyRockstar said:

Aaaay macarena

[Reardy Mister]

Greg_D said:

Captain Muppet said:

Alex said:

Captain Muppet said:

I remember Alistair McQueen winning the sideways challenge.

Years later I got to drive him on track, and he told me my steering technique for oversteer was wrong. I was in my third season of competitive drifting at the time, and I'd have loved to take him out in my drift car (which was in the car park) and get some pointers while driving properly sideways, but it didn't happen. Partly because getting my car on track would have required some tricky paperwork, but mostly because I was too embarrassed to ask him.

As a competitive drifter, you must be quite handy at it, so what did McQueen think was wrong with your technique?

I used the "letting the steering wheel slide through your hands" method of applying opposite lock. He wanted me to not let go of the wheel.

I'm not sure I have the skill required to apply that many turns of lock accurately enough in the time available using his technique while drifting. Most drifters seem to use the same technique as me.

Quite, let the caster do the work. It'll settle just a little short of where you need it. Let it stop and give it a little extra steering and you are in a neutral slide.
I notice monkey does a sort of half way house of letting the wheel do the work but touching the wheel lightly at all times (presumably to mentally keep a tally on how many rotations it has done)

Horses for courses really...

From memory, I think Tiff is of the "let it centre itself" school, too.

[lindrup119]

Chris Harris said:

Donkey62 said:

RichB said:

Well there we go, an article involving Lewis Hamilton and already 20 or so posts in and we've got people slagging him off. Pistonheads can be a shameful place sometimes.

The author has to take some responsibility for their questionable wording of the article, PH doesn't always make easy reading especially in conveying stories in anything other than a tweet of blogging txt.

"I stick out my paw the way I always do and attempt to reciprocate the pressure of his handshake, fail dismally and continue."

There's a verb, subject and an object. If you can't understand that, I can't help you. Read it again.

[cptsideways]

Haha I do believe this was my first ever sideways competition, oh look what that good me into.



Love the idea of just for a laugh anything goes excuse to drive sideways

[Donkey62]

Chris Harris said:

Donkey62 said:

RichB said:

Well there we go, an article involving Lewis Hamilton and already 20 or so posts in and we've got people slagging him off. Pistonheads can be a shameful place sometimes.

The author has to take some responsibility for their questionable wording of the article, PH doesn't always make easy reading especially in conveying stories in anything other than a tweet of blogging txt.

"I stick out my paw the way I always do and attempt to reciprocate the pressure of his handshake, fail dismally and continue."

There's a verb, subject and an object. If you can't understand that, I can't help you. Read it again.

Firstly i'm certainly not the grammar police and I did understand the first time round.

Sure haters are idiots, however my point is they only seem to congregate when invited with poorly worded lines rather than the topic/subject of the article itself. I wanted to highlight your line can easily be read in context as a negative, hence the comments on the first couple of pages of this thread.

[Bencolem]

I call custard!

[Reardy Mister]

Donkey62 said:

Chris Harris said:

Donkey62 said:

RichB said:

Well there we go, an article involving Lewis Hamilton and already 20 or so posts in and we've got people slagging him off. Pistonheads can be a shameful place sometimes.

The author has to take some responsibility for their questionable wording of the article, PH doesn't always make easy reading especially in conveying stories in anything other than a tweet of blogging txt.

"I stick out my paw the way I always do and attempt to reciprocate the pressure of his handshake, fail dismally and continue."

There's a verb, subject and an object. If you can't understand that, I can't help you. Read it again.

Firstly i'm certainly not the grammar police and I did understand the first time round.

Sure haters are idiots, however my point is they only seem to congregate when invited with poorly worded lines rather than the topic/subject of the article itself. I wanted to highlight your line can easily be read in context as a negative, hence the comments on the first couple of pages of this thread.

That sentence was not poorly worded, it was poorly read.

[Bibbs]

Reardy Mister said:

That sentence was not poorly worded, it was poorly read.

To be fair, it can be read two ways.

1. The way it's written
or
2. By adding new words, and removing the ones there, any other sentence you like.

[Joe911]

Chris Harris said:

Hit sport mode, then hold the button down again to get rid of the ESP. Then hoon.

Hmmm - yes, did that - certainly it's better than just Sport - but it doesn't disable everything (for example, TC) and I got the feeling that the interference wasn't helping the drifting. Clearly you and Hammo don't have a problem - so I need to work harder at it! Thanks.