BHRxRacer
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I don't remember much of 2009, but he's very fair on-track and he won a championship. And no I'm not thinking that, otherwise Maldonado would be the nicest of all.
I don't remember much of 2009, but he's very fair on-track and he won a championship. And no I'm not thinking that, otherwise Maldonado would be the nicest of all.
Ugh. You mean if he was nice during that particular season? I don't recall dirty driving from him in 2009, so refresh my memory.
You're correct. But, treating your teammate so poorly, like Hamilton ALWAYS does, explains why his worst enemy is his own teammate.
That wasn't his fault. Hamilton left no space. Maldonado had full lock to avoid going back on track but the speed bump didn't allow it. His only choice was to go straight onto the speed bumps and potentially damage his car. He chose to trust Hamilton for some space and got none. Racing incident.Erm, nope
It wouldn't have had to come down to this had Hamilton been a team player this season. I also think it wouldn't have had to come down to this had the team not let Hamilton get away with blatantly saying he's driving for himself.
Dude, open your eyes. Many drivers drive over speed bumps to avoid crashing, especially when battling for a podium on the last lap. So you hate Hamilton (fine) but make false statements and avoid fact (wrong), and then seem to think that Maldonado is an innocent victim? What is wrong there.
Really? Because I remember at LEAST Martin Brundle shares my opinion.
Oh man, you're absolutely killing it...
No, they try to zigzag around them. Nobody would go over it at full speed. Maldonado had no idea he was going to get pushed all the way off anyway, it was too late to go over the bumps then. You need to open your eyes, not me. Seriously.
I'd love it if it wasn't for the fans reaction tbh but why does it have to be this way? Can't we have a clean rivalry for once? Rosberg's shown he's willing to race clean all season and incredibly he was leading. Sure it's fun now but wouldn't it be better if Hamilton was also racing clean? At least then we'd know who's the better driver with no excuses.I agree, but that's partly a weakness that he's taken advantage of from Mercedes. He's driven under them for, what, 15 years? He know how they operate and he wants a WDC every year. So sue him.
Rosberg wants a World Championship under his belt too and is acting quite rightly to try to take it.
As a spectating fan I love it
You've just answered your question, any sane driver knows that the racing line is there and if your nose isn't alongside theirs, they have full rights to follow the racing line, there is tarmac for any other driver to use, but Sir Maldonado can;t possibly go across that and settle for 4th, he has to turn into the other guy because he has no idea about what other racers do.
He (wrongfully) trusted Hamilton to give him space. He had full lock to the left trying to stay as far as possible, Hamilton just took the racing line as if nobody was there.
Wrong. Just..Wrong.
Who's throwing accusations now? When did I say that was Hamilton's fault?
Very knowledgeable and wise response.
Hmmmmmmmm?
Did we reach that part where you're going to deliberately misquote me and leave out things from the very same post you quoted?
That was the funny bit at the time, too. I remember he took out Grosjean in a similar fashion at the first lap of Australia. Whatever though, let your prejudice dictate your view.
I find that hard to believe. I'm guessing that the placement of the car was deliberate, but the contact unintentional. It looked to me like Rosberg was trying to force Hamilton to give him room into the next corner, thereby putting him off-line coming out of Les Combes and setting up a potential pass into Malmedy. The overhead shot shows that he had the room to pull it off, but it's not the kind of move that works on the Hamiltons and Alonsos of the world, and predictably, Hamilton didn't fall for it. The onus was on Rosberg to back out, but I can't see the contact being deliberate.
How exactly?
You could argue that he shouldn't of been silly enough to expect Maldanado to drive sensibly, but that's pushing your luck a bit 
"Look like you blamed Hamilton"
Wait, so it was Gutierrez' fault at Hungary? ZOMG HOW DARE EVERYBODY NOT BLAME MALDONADO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!11I'm pretty sure Perez would share my 'prejudice' too, after a certain incident at Monaco.
It takes a keen man to defend Pastor's driving standards
Anyway this thread is about the Spa GP so I'll leave it at that.
Back again, just a few things to say, don't see why people are saying KMag's penalty was harsh, seemed perfectly fair to me, forcing drivers off track shouldn't be at all acceptable.
Rosberg vs Hamilton, I think Rosberg should of backed out sooner, the only reason he got alongside in the first place was because he took too much speed into the corner, and there was no way he was going to keep his car far enough alongside to justify him getting some room from Hamilton.
Hamilton vs Maldanado in 2012;
Definitely Hamilton's fault, definitely.....
What? I did say it was a racing incident.
