F1 World Championship 2007 Thread

[.mcman]

he developped the mp4/22 nearly by himself

haha, funny. :rolleyes:

[theyarecomingforyou]

Well, I'm glad Alonso didn't win it - he is an petulant kid and his racing has been all over the place this season; he is also a poor sportsman. Still, this year has been the best year for Formula 1 in decades... possibly ever, despite all the scandals / nonsense with the FIA. Hamilton deserved to win but the team failed him yet again. I'm sure Hamilton will go on to do great things as he dominated the season as a newbie - he is a grounded and likeable character; a good role model to children.

@mclaren2 - Are you being serious? If you are then I'm assuming you're Spanish, hence why you seem so set against Hamilton, even going as far as to call him "ugly" - a statement that is patently untrue. It's like you're talking about a completely different sport.

[simonlang]

@theyarecomingforyou

first of all. let me guess: you are from gbr/usa right?

and no, i am not spanish, i am from austria, and i liked following drivers in the past: berger, hakkinen, coulthard, raikkonen, montoya, hill, villeneuve, and currently i like alonso and massa. all of them for various reasons, but nationality was never a part of it.

yes, i think hami is ugly. he looks ugly. thats my opinion. why should it be untrue? isn't it just subjective if you find someone good looking or ugly?

[CrashG]

Hamilton deserved to win but the team failed him yet again.

He failed himself in the last two races due to his own (rookie) mistakes, but I can bet he learned from them. All he had to do today was just hang in the top 4, but he was overly aggressive @ turn 1 and his race & potential Drivers Championship was pretty much done.

I'm not bashing Hamilton, the kid has some serious skills and I give him props for that. (Y)

Hopefully next year we can just have some good racing without all the crap that left a big brown skidmark on this years season.

[ctebah]

horrible result no doubt. at least the ugly hamilton failed to win a gifted wdc.

but raikkonen, a guy who just makes headlines with getting caught drunken somewhere, is not any better.

fernando alonso, despite having the whole team and the FIA against himself, just failed to win his 3rd consecutive wdc by 1 ridiculous point, the point, stolen in hungary by the prooven alonso-hater scott andrews. :pinch:

this year, in f1, was the worst since 1994, with everyone, including the press doing everything preventing alonso of winning his 3rd deserved title. he developped the mp4/22 nearly by himself, a car which failed to win 1 single race in 2006 to the best car in the grid this year in nearly 2 months over the winter.

but it was not meant to be.- british nationalists and the italian mafia both working 200% to get their own agenda through, finally succeeded in destroying everything.

very sad day for the sport. f1 is not the sport anymore it uses to be many many (glory) years ago.

yeah, i get what you're saying, but the sport is a lot more interesting nowadays. i used to cheer for shumi, but he dominated and that wasn't fun. F1 made most money than any other year last year and their ratings were much higher than those glory years you're talking about.

[CrashG]

yeah, i get what you're saying, but the sport is a lot more interesting nowadays. i used to cheer for shumi, but he dominated and that wasn't fun. F1 made most money than any other year last year and their ratings were much higher than those glory years you're talking about.

I was a Shumi fan since his Benetton days then with Ferrari, and despite that, it did get boring watching him win all the time with little challenge from anyone else.

[metallithrax]

I was a Shumi fan since his Benetton days then with Ferrari, and despite that, it did get boring watching him win all the time with little challenge from anyone else.

Problem was that they dare not challenge him incase he rammed them off the track.

[CrashG]

Problem was that they dare not challenge him incase he rammed them off the track.

You got a valid point there. :laugh: Some of his "tactics" were questionable to say the least (eg. Monte Carlo, parking it in La Rascasse so Alonso couldn't take pole away from him).

[metallithrax]

I was thinking more along these lines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMF8pJo7Co...ted&search=

[CrashG]

I was thinking more along these lines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMF8pJo7Co...ted&search=

He did have a "If I can't beat'em Wreck'em" attitude. How dare them not to get out of my way. Just who do they think they are? :rofl:

[metallithrax]

Yes, he definately had his "funny" moments

[mshepp]

Breaking news just on bbc news, BMW could be disqualified due to fuel irregularities and Hamilton could win the championship as he would move up to 5th place finish.

I would post a link to the news but as i said, it was just breaking news on BBC so nothing online yet.

Edited October 21, 2007 by littleome

[CrashG]

Breaking news just on bbc news, BMW could be disqualified and Hamilton could win the championship as he would move up to 5th place finish.

For what?

[metallithrax]

For what?

Investigating Fuel irregularities for BMW and Williams.

If they used illegal fuel they could(should) be disqualified.

[mshepp]

For what?

Just edited original post :)

[CrashG]

Just edited original post :)

I see now. :)

Investigating Fuel irregularities for BMW and Williams.

If they used illegal fuel they could(should) be disqualified.

Yes they should, if they did.

[Fergie]

Come on McLaren, COME ON HAMILTON!!

[metallithrax]

Would be a ****ty way to win a championship though.

But cheating is cheating.

[D!rtySh@dy]

Yes !!!!! Kimi was the best this year !!!!

VIVA FERRARI !

[metallithrax]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/7055644.stm

latest

[h00nta]

There could yet be a change in the final placings:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/7055644.stm

[S.MULLA]

man this is making me nervous.... could this be just a hype-which is common by the media... it may be something simple- but if they do get disqualified.!! woohoo.!!! (bizarre way to win constructors)

[.mcman]

oh man, I'm not going to bed until they decide what to do :omg:

also I agree it's a ****ty way to win.

[Fergie]

Yeah it be a ****ty way to win it for Hamilton but still, he gets what he deserves. Not saying that Raikkonen doesn't deserve the Championship, I support Hamilton so I think he should win. :p

[simonlang]

horrible result no doubt. ugly hamilton failed succeeded to win a gifted wdc.

looks like i'd maybe have to modify that quote.

what do we have already?

the crane, hungary, fuji, interlagos quali, interlagos race.

sport is dead.

and i remember mosleys reaction after interlagos 95 affair.

i fear the worst for raikkonen (undeserved) and ferrari (deserved).