How surreal, Hamilton in China.

IMO the "incident" was purely the team's fault again. At some points, teams appear to make the most glaringly obvious mistakes (says he: the professor of F1, not).

Even as an armchair driver with limited technical knowledge, I managed to grasp the fact that I was watching the tyres gradually shred. Surely at point - someone in the Team says "I think we ought to bring him in - his tyres look slightly bu99ered".

The time lost skidding around the track and being unlapped by something with the equivalent performance of a wheelbarrow, would surely have been better spent getting new rubber, and carrying round a bit more fuel, right?? Or am I being too simplistic?

Mr Hamilton was lucky that the tyre finally went where it did, as against on a several hundred miles an hour corner...


Can I just say - as a non-Finn - that I have nothing but admiration for Mika Hakkinen.

I shall never forget, at the Monaco GP - when Michael Schumacher,(cough, cough, cheat, cough), was receiving some award for "Most Arrogant Smug Bloke 2005", or something - Martin Brundle shoves a microphone in Mika's face saying: "So, did you see Michael receive his award?", and Mika replying: "No - I was taking a 5hit..." Pure class - on and off the track.

Originally Posted by Lord Snooty

I shall never forget, at the Monaco GP - when Michael Schumacher,(cough, cough, cheat, cough), was receiving some award for "Most Arrogant Smug Bloke 2005", or something - Martin Brundle shoves a microphone in Mika's face saying: "So, did you see Michael receive his award?", and Mika replying: "No - I was taking a 5hit..." Pure class - on and off the track.

I remember an exactly similar incident at the Brazilian GP 2006, where Kimi made that comment.

Originally Posted by jamieboy

I remember an exactly similar incident at the Brazilian GP 2006, where Kimi made that comment.

The two are interchangeable. Non human androids loosely based upon a Finnish Male design. 'Mika' was the original, 'Kimi' is the mk2 series.

However at some point the mk2 'Kimi' went wrong, short circuited and ran away from it's creator, Ron Dennis. He was snatched up by rivals Ferrari who were still bitter from seeing their drivers so soundly beaten by the Mk1 'Mika' in '98 and '99.

And the saga continues! Forza Kimi! Forza Ferrari!Yess!

Although I am over the moon with Kimi's victory, I do find it a bit strange for Hamilton's car to have a problem in the very last race of the season...