Monday, October 13, 2008

McLaren and Lewis Hamilton blew it yet again

It's been widely tipped that Lewis Hamilton will move a step closer to his F1 world title prior to the Japan GP. He got the pole position that would give huge advantage and with his closest rival down in fifth on the grid, I think not many people would bet against the silver arrow to drop out in such dramatic fashion.

Lewis got off to the worst possible start of his career when he was easily and quickly passed by outgoing world champion, Kimi Raikkonen. Just when pressure mounted to his small little head, he forced Kimi to go wide, and made himself into a difficult situation along with almost the entire field of scarlet machines at the first corner.

Then on the second lap, he did the same again on the biggest rival, Filipe Massa, forcing the later to went wide before bouncing back into track and knocked himself into spinning 360 deg. He got to continued the race in the back end, 18th place, which I think is thoroughly deserved by all his unsporting antics on track.

He, along with Filipe Massa later being punished to a drive through penalty on the above 2 incidents, which effectively ended his charge towards a point scoring end of the GP. Luckily and fortunately for Filipe Massa, he still manage to clawed back 2 points from his rival.

For all these, I think Lewis Hamilton has been over confident, and also he's a little too arrogant after such a promising season so far. He's now repeating his own mistake last year, and I doubt he will ever wins a world title with such state of mindset.

For me I don't like Lewis Hamilton as a driver, nor a person. Eversince last year, where he's just a rookie, and with all his antics and tactics on track, that forced former champion, Fernando Alonso to quit the team after just one season, I think McLaren Mercedes team is totally deserve such outcome, and it's all because they are digging their own grave yard.

Lewis no doubt is a very talented driver, but unless he change his attitude on field, he will never be respected as an F1 driver. He just simply too arrogant and being disrespectful towards other drivers. I just hope he will lose out yet again this year on the world title and hit his confident hard and deep.

Moral of the story - Respect others before expecting others to respect you! Winning now doesn't guarantee success forever! Just ask Michael Schumacher!

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