1. No he wasn't, Reuben was alongside him when he moved.
2. If someone did the same thing towards a wall at Monaco the reaction would be exacty the same. Closing the door like that is wrong anyway but with a concrete wall is dangerous too.
The F1 Thread 2010 Season
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1. No he wasn't, Reuben was alongside him when he moved.
2. If someone did the same thing towards a wall at Monaco the reaction would be exacty the same. Closing the door like that is wrong anyway but with a concrete wall is dangerous too.
How is Button still in the championship race ? His last race win was ages ago.
Consistency. Seems to be going through his usual mid-season dip though, should come back stronger soon.
Now thats no fecking excuse, but for a bit of perspective. Webbers move was as bad as Michaels
One of the most 'underwhelming' drivers to become world champion in recent memory.
He wasn't underwhelming last season that's for sure.
Not really to be honest, Massa had plenty of room still.
Half of the driver's on the grid, maybe even more will be quicker than him if they had the same car - that's about as underwhelming as it can get as a world champion.
Haug has been taking Schumacher bullshit pills.
That's entirely hypothetical speculation and I'm not sure what you're basing it on. It's the first time we saw him in a properly competitive car and he won the WDC. He's also doing a pretty good job this year compared to the team mate that a lot of people said would blow him out of the water.
Button is a brilliant driver and the shit talked about him is pathetic.
Did Eddie Jordon really just admit to not knowing about Schumachers exclusion in 97?!
He should be saving his breath for the almighty arse feck Merc are going to receive about that tyre flying through pitlane.
Spot on.
Last season, he had a car which was miles ahead of the rest till half way through the season. He won like 6 out of the first 7 races and by the time the others caught up, it was too little too late. It also helped him that more than one team caught up (Red Bull, Mclaren and Ferrari started winning races taking points of each other in the chase). He had 66 points in the first half of the season and scored just 29 when he actually had some competition in the second half of the season.
IMO, drivers who will be quicker than Button if in the same car:
Lewis
Alonso
Vettel
Webber
Massa
Rosberg
Schumacher
Kubica
a few drivers further down the grid will give him a run for his money as well.
And he is not being blown out of the water for 2 main reasons:
1. Good pit strategy on a few races
2. The current pit stop rules are far more skewed than ever before in favor of 'conservative' driving and preserving tires rather than being quick.
Really? I think this season Michael has been proved to have lost his pace quite a lot, not to mention Rosberg is entirely guesswork in terms of pace, Button proved he was an excellent driver in the BAR days so the amount of stick he gets is really undeserved.
After the first 4-6 races, yeah he was. Once everyone got their cars to the level of the Brawn and beyond did he even win one race?
This is bizarre to me. Red Bull have had the best car by a country mile this season, how many poles does Vettel have alone, 7? And they have race pace too. And yet only today they head McClaren in the constructors, and Webber goes above Hamilton at the top (Vettel still behind)
So Button had the best car - as did his team mate - and he battered that advantage home while they had it, as a true champion would. And then when he didn't have the car, he still put in the consistent performances to attain enough points to win the championship. And this somehow makes him a 'fluke' champion?
It's utter horsecrap. Your theoretical 'who would go faster than Button' crap is exactly that. Button DID it. And even in a lesser BAR he proved he could keep up with the big boys
He's a more than worthy champion, and yet again you're exposed for talking out of your arse on F1 matters
- 10 place grid penalty for Schumacher
- $50k fines for Renault and Mercedes for Pit Lane issues.
- $50k fines for Renault and Mercedes for Pit Lane issues.
I'd have chucked him out of the next race myself. In fact in the past he's been banned for two races for ignoring a black flag, and for me this is in the same bracket, deliberately risking the well-being of other racing drivers
How so?
To be honest it was a nothing punishment anyway, when people talk about his record number of race victories, they're including his five from that year anyway. We all know he was the second best driver that year because he raced all the races and finished in that position, striking his performances afterwards is a nonsense, he lost nothing in reality. Banning him from the next season would have been a more apt punishment...
Whatever, what's done is done there. He never learns though. Just thank goodness no one has ever been seriously hurt by some of the things he's done through his career eh
In the forum after the race they were talking about the incident and MS having prior form for such distasteful driving and DC said "how many drivers can you think of in your time in F1 who have been excluded from an entire championship for driving into another driver" or something to that effect.
Brundle sarcastically said 'hmmm, let me think' and whilst DC was half laughing at that Jordan said 'I can't think of any'. Then DC told him it was Schumacher in 97 and he just looked blankly at him. He wasn't trying to be funny either by the look of it!
Didn't watch it all pal, went to watch some of the wire once it seemed they were only going to talk about Schu/Barrichello.. Why, what did he do?
They interviewed him and mentioned a comment by Jordan from before the last GP where he said Hulkenburg was disappointing, which Hulkenburg told him was bullshit
Haha brilliant!
anyone been watching the recent top gears? maybe schumacher thinks he really is the stig and has really developed a massive hatred for barichello
it was a disgusting move from the so called f1 great, am i the only one taking great pleasure from schumacher coming back this year and not doing alot other than tainting his legacy?
it was a disgusting move from the so called f1 great, am i the only one taking great pleasure from schumacher coming back this year and not doing alot other than tainting his legacy?
I, and frankly most of us, took a beating this week
If McClaren continue to fall away Lars has this in the bag
I am really hoping that Ferrari get the book thrown at them for Hockenheim, I appear to be the only one without the red cars.
Good to see the stewards finally show their teeth with the Schumacher-Barrichello incident, but it's not substantially worse than some of the other things we've seen go unpunished, Vettel squeezing Hamilton down the pitlane springs to mind as something that could have been really denagerous, like this could've been
Michael Schumacher is a buffoon. Idiotic, dangerous, cynical and a very Schumacher move. He deserves to be suspended for a couple of races. He really could have killed Rubens.
Again. He is an idiot.
Again. He is an idiot.
Schumacher ...........what a total cnut
Ah well not exactly something new to any of us I s'pose
Ah well not exactly something new to any of us I s'pose
I wonder what the history is between Schumacher and Rubens in the past? Team-mates but now arch enemies?
So Schumacher gets a ten-place grid penalty. I guess he'll start at the back in the next race then.
From Krits in the Newb Forum
To paraphrase Jackie Stewart views on Michael's driving style -- if he has been driving like he did in the old days, he would have killed himself a while ago.
Quite a difference in just pushing them off and attempting to put him into the wall as michael did, really Senna was far from perfect as was discussed just last week however his incidents were few and far between, that including the very human side of Ayrton's racing such as getting out of his car mid-race to help another racer, the Austrian flag in his car when he died, Schumacher as fantastic a racer as he was never really showed this human side. Schumacher however does have a history of the negative aspects without the positive.
So whats the story between Michael and Rubens then?
Well Rubens has started talking about the poor treatment he got at Ferrari so as Michael could continue winning, hence them not being too friendly.
oic. I read that he said that he had to follow team orders a few times just to let MS win. Rubens seems genuinely one of the nice guys in F1.