Que Fernando meltdown in 3, 2, 1,.....
 

I expected this the minute Hamilton won. Its like a replay of last year when Micheal was in reach of a championship and Fernando blamed Renault of sabotaging his drive to keep him from having the #1.

Read along as he melts down:

Hamilton was Lucky to get a win

Everyone still loves ME not him!!!!!

Then the final meltdown.....

I do not like my team anymore...


Predictable.

well see how humble he gets after hamilton wins at indy...... :D
it's on :D

Alonso is an ass. I hope Hamilton humiliates him in the remaining races - he deserves it.

Don't be surprised if Hamilton doesn't walk away with the overall championship this year. I honestly think he's got the stuff to do it - assuming Alonzo doesn't take him out before then. And yes, I think he would.

I hate to jump on the Hamilton bandwagon, I am a Red car fan through and through but damn!! He aced that track and never saw it before. I am indeed impressed.

I see one of two paths for Hamilton:

1) He peaks early and flames out. He spends 10 years in F1 but never matches his rookie season.

2) He makes MS looks like a go-cart driver.

This does make Indy a much more enjoyable event. 2 drivers on the same team, dont agree on things etc. I'll love it. Go Hamilton.

MS is a GREAT go-cart driver, so is Hamilton ;-)

I've previously made no secret of being a Kimi fan. I still like his style but I've never been particularly keen on Ferrari as a team. Hamilton is amazing and being a fellow Brit, well....I may have to switch back to McLaren.
I read this same story earlier on the BBC website and just think Alonso is a whiner.
This will be a great season!!!

+1

the only thing keeping me from rooting for the guy is the "bandwagon factor". I can't stand the way the British press covers him...

after watching hamilton in his gp2 races it was obvious he had the "stuff"....so my cheers for him are pre-bandwagon, but who cares, i love when a rookie shakes things up :D

At least it's cured their Jenson Button fixation.

no kidding... that is one guy who has surely suffered more than Alonso out of all of this!

Oh Yeah, Jenson and Honda.

Didn't they used to have a Formula 1 team? ;)

Les

Yeah, but they morphed into SuperBestFriends. Go Sato!

Jenson who?

you mean Jensen Healy?

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alfonso has turned into a whiney little beyotch. maclaren is too rigid for him. he needs to be among his peeps in a team w/ a relaxed mediterranean feel so he and flavio can work their schedules around sessions of working on their perma-tans.

Alonso sounds like "Whine Pablo". I'm a tifosi but a driving enthusiast after all and I like Hamilton better than any other out there.

He is very talented and sounds sincere in the press conferences. Massa is talented but has a bit of bravado demeanor takes away from it. All of this while Hamilton keeps the boyish charm and grins at every accomplishment.

I hope he's around for a very long time. So far its been great watching him race and I look forward to enjoying many more races.

I was pulling for Massa and Kimi (in that order) but I have to admit it looks Hamilton could be the man to beat this year.

Only problem I foresee is if he starts winning everything then we will all start complaining how boring F1 has become. :D

or complaints that Bernie is behind all of his wins just like the Schumi conspiracy theories.

Well, I'll stand up for FA. It's hard to change teams, cars, and tires all at once. He and Kimi are missing the knife edge understanding of the Bridgestones at the limit - doesn' t look like they're comfortable anticipating what their new car/tire combo does at 10/10's. FA had a bad - impatient - emotional race in Canada. But the season is very long and momemtum can be very erratic in F1 these days. Hamilton is amazing. But FA has the record so far:

Races 94 (93 starts)
Championships 2 (2005, 2006)
Wins 17
Podium finishes 41
Pole positions 16
Career points 421
Fastest laps 10

And he's just 26 (or 27?). Pretty amazing for a guy who didn't come from a wealthy background or a country with any real racing infrastructure.

I'm not ready to dimiss FA just yet. In some of his interviews I see him using phrases that might not be the correct translation from Spanish. Of course the Bristish press and any body looking to make a sorry will latch on to it. You might make similar statements about all the drivers who don't speak English primarily.

I think FA is still as good as he was the last couple of years, but now the field is a little more competitve, not soley because of driver talent but also car development. Hamilton is a good driver....so was Jasques Villeneuve. So is Robert Kubica. What if Kubica had a McClaren or a F2007 and the team support that comes with those cars? Even Hamilton admires Kubica. The first couple of races Kubica drove during the last season were amazing given the equipment he had to work with. Now look what the BMW team has turned into. Look what he's done for his teammate.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Hamilton is in the fight. I'm just not ready to crown him Champion yet. There are still more races in the season.

And let's not forget that F1 is not for people with small egos. Some conceal it better than others. If FA had congratulated Hamilton then turned away simply because he was disappointed in his own performance..the British press would have been all over that, making something out of nothing. These guys are competing against everyone...including their own teammate. Try to find a guy in one of those cars who'd lift just so the new kid can have his first win. The front runners are hungry all the time. That's what makes them competitors.

It's been an excellent season so far....and yes, Hamilton, FA, Kimi and even Sato have made it what it is. (I cheered out loud when Sata passed Alonso!)

FA is not being mistranslated. He just said that McLaren in supporting Hamilton and that he understands it, being a British driver in a British car. This made national newspapers headlines in Spain.

Also FA is not regarded in Spain as a super nice guy either. He is arrogant and has a significant ego. However he is a national hero in Spain (it does not get much better than this for us, the next sports heroes are Nadal in tennis and Gasol in basketball, and even though they are good, neither of them is number one)

I elieve FA is the best overall driver in the grid this year. He managed to win 2 titles while not having the best car, and got the best out of his Renault. He holds a lot of precocity records in F1 (youngest champion, etc.) and we should not dismiss him right now just because Hamilton is doing good.

With Kimi already out of options (IMHO), there are just 3 drivers who can get the title, FA, Hamilton and Massa, and I would personally reduce it to just the McLarens. All in all a very interesting season, but I belive (or want to believe) that Hamilton will not win this year.

Paco,

Nice to get your perspective of events. Just about everything we read is UK centric since there is very little original US based F1 reporting. So we read a lot of articles questioning Alsono's abilities and already crowning Hamilton as the next champion.

Agreed. The fawning of the Brit press would be more amusing if it weren't the only regular source of F1 coverage in the US. F1 Racing magazine has turned into Hello! over the past few issues, with the current issue presuming LH "Already the Best?". After 3 races, at press time...

Even the BBC has gone girlishly excited. I heard the Five Live Chequered Flag broadcast after Canada, and the normally staid and respectable Maurice Hamilton sounded as though he we were going to wet himself with excitement.

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Tim