Formula 1 2014: Round 12 - Belgian Grand Prix

Autosport

Vettel was lucky he didn't get a puncture with Alonso hitting his wing

Delighted for Daniel

andyman

andyman wrote: »

That was clean racing. Today wasn't clean racing.

If that "clean racing" had just happened to cause a broken radiator or broken wheel rim for Rosberg would it still have been clean racing?

Gillespy

christy c wrote: »

HAM commended in Bahrain for his racing, even though Rosberg had to take avoiding action. Shoe on the other foot now

Was there contact there? This is completely different then. Nikki Lauda doesn't think much of Rosberg's driving.

Rosberg is famous for his intelligence, he is a hopeless racer however.

_rebelkid

Hamilton fans are out in force, boo's for Rosberg.

Andrew76

Boos for Rosberg on the podium!

christy c

andyman wrote: »

That was clean racing. Today wasn't clean racing.

And you expected Hamilton to take avoiding action? Rosberg is the one who yields in that situation. Not Hamilton.

It's clean racing when one driver gets out of the way.

Suck it up Lewis fans

Tzardine

_rebelkid wrote: »

Hamilton fans are out in force, boo's for Rosberg.

Proper order I think.

Hamilton fan or not.

Rosberg being dirty by losing his front wing against someone else, intentional apparently. Was Alonso dirty for losing his front wing against Vettel's tyre on the last lap?

Gillespy

christy c wrote: »

It's clean racing when one driver gets out of the way.

Suck it up Lewis fans

The weird thing was it was a nothing attempt at a pass. Poor driving from Rosberg.

_rebelkid

christy c wrote: »

It's clean racing when one driver gets out of the way.

Suck it up Lewis fans

Says the Rosberg fan....

I don't like either of them. Today was a racing mistake from Rosberg. He misjudged a cut back and clipped Hamilton. Racing Incident.

Tzardine

S. Vettels salary this year 31.7 Million

D. Ricciardio salary 1.1 Million

I see a nice pay rise for him next season

ednwireland

always thought the golden rule was dont take your team mate out

andyman

christy c wrote: »

It's clean racing when one driver gets out of the way.

Suck it up Lewis fans

That you for confirming my previous post that it wasn't clean racing today and that Rosberg was at fault.

Niki Lauda says Rosberg was completely at fault, and he wasn't calm when he said it.

And we're entitled to an opinion just as much as you are.

Autosport

Oh Eddie go on ask him

andyman

Deleted User wrote: »

Rosberg being dirty by losing his front wing against someone else, intentional apparently. Was Alonso dirty for losing his front wing against Vettel's tyre on the last lap?

Who said it was intentional?

Ghost Train

Clumsy by Rosberg, you shouldn't hit your teammate be interesting to here the drivers

Pity Magnussan didn't let Button pass could have gotten the team a few more points, instead Vettel got ahead

andyman

andyman wrote: »

Who said it was intentional?

The dirty/clean dichotomy generally refers to intent.

Jordan 199

Someone waving a Jordan flag in the crowd. Awesome

Mike Litoris

Well done Ric - Damn impressive.
Silly move from Rosberg - Boos deserved imo.
Great third from Bottas - some great overtaking out there.


What a battle at the end from the McLarens, Alonso and Vettle. Alonso fúcked this one up.

RayM

Fair play to Eddie Jordan for acknowledging and trying to calm the booing down, rather than embarrassedly ignoring it. They should get him to do the podium interviews at every race.

christy c

andyman wrote: »

That you for confirming my previous post that it wasn't clean racing today and that Rosberg was at fault.

Niki Lauda says Rosberg was completely at fault, and he wasn't calm when he said it.

And we're entitled to an opinion just as much as you are.

Thank you for being so condescending.

Of course it's not clean when two cars touch, I said ROS needed to show his fangs which he did

Autosport

Toto not very happy

zombieHanalei

I wonder would Eddie have been this diplomatic had Ralf hit Damon at Spa in 1998?

(Yeah I know, not entirely the same!)

Tzardine

Autosport wrote: »

Toto not very happy

I tell you, I would not want to be on his bad side.

andyman

Deleted User wrote: »

The dirty/clean dichotomy generally refers to intent.

It wasn't intentional, but it wasn't clean.

Wreckless and clumsy were words I used, but definitely unintentional

Toto has just said it was "unacceptable" but doesn't seem to be partitioning blame.

andyman

RayM wrote: »

Fair play to Eddie Jordan for acknowledging and trying to calm the booing down, rather than embarrassedly ignoring it. They should get him to do the podium interviews at every race.

His intent was good, but it only added fuel to the fire unfortunately.

CFlat

Toto Woolfe telling it as it is for those of you who actually thought it was Hams fault.

Mike Litoris

Interesting comments from Mr Wolf.

Charlie-Bravo

Toto keeps schtum on boos, but slates Rosberg after! :eek:

Autosport

I would love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting

CFlat

CFlat wrote: »

Toto Woolfe telling it as it is for those of you who actually thought it was Hams fault.

CFlat

Brutal honesty form a Forumula 1 team is a breath of fresh air.

SOP, you don't hit your team-mate.

GarIT

RayM wrote: »

Fair play to Eddie Jordan for acknowledging and trying to calm the booing down, rather than embarrassedly ignoring it. They should get him to do the podium interviews at every race.

Eddie Jordan was bang out of order, it wasn't his place to get involved. He then tries to appear neutral after Mercedes has openly blamed Nico.

Autosport

Lewis not a fan of the sunglasses, have to say lewis is coming across very well

Ghost Train

Eddie's not blaming Nico he's blaming team not having control of drivers

Coulthard talking about the German GP not being sold out, more likely down to the ludicrous ticket prices than popularity of any driver.

_rebelkid

Mike Litoris

Lol Eddie's gone nuts.

RayM

GarIT wrote: »

Eddie Jordan was bang out of order, it wasn't his place to get involved. He then tries to appear neutral after Mercedes has openly blamed Nico.

Most other interviewers would have pretended that the booing wasn't happening. It was good to see him actually draw attention to it, rather than smiling awkwardly and ignoring all controversy - which is what usually happens in F1.

RayM

RayM wrote: »

Most other interviewers would have pretended that the booing wasn't happening. It was good to see him actually draw attention to it, rather than smiling awkwardly and ignoring all controversy - which is what usually happens in F1.

Think it was last year Brundle was doing it and Vettel was getting booed and he said "No need for that" or something similar.

JacquesDeLad

Delighted Hamilton got a taste of his own medicine.

It's sad that his constant whinging in the press has turned the public against Rosberg.

Just watching his latest whinge now, he comes across as very immature.

There's only 29 points in it ffs.

GarIT

RayM wrote: »

Most other interviewers would have pretended that the booing wasn't happening. It was good to see him actually draw attention to it, rather than smiling awkwardly and ignoring all controversy - which is what usually happens in F1.

No way, he should have at a minimum ignored it, if he didn't have the **** to agree with Mercedes and the fans.

Someone worthy of doing the interviews would have asked Nico how he felt about causing he teammates exit from the race. What Eddie did was ignore the situation.

bnt

Mike Litoris wrote: »

Lol Eddie's gone nuts.

Compare to Lewis, who appears to have been tranqulised. I suspect someone's slipped him a Valium.

CFlat

Deleted User wrote: »

There's only 29 points in it ffs.

I was thinking the same thing. There are still 200 points left for first places. Anything could happen in the next seven races. He needs to stop being so negative.

Autosport

Thank you Anthony, clumsy driving by a experienced driver

zombieHanalei

JacquesDeLad wrote: »

Delighted Hamilton got a taste of his own medicine.

It's sad that his constant whinging in the press has turned the public against Rosberg.

Just watching his latest whinge now, he comes across as very immature.

As someone who for the best part of a decade has watched the sport objectively and not supported any team since Jordan pulled out in 2004/5, and not supported any driver since Schumacher retired in 2006, I have to say that I find the likes of this partizan anti-Hamilton stuff quite bizarre!

Taste of his own medicine? Whinging? (Based on that interview???) Wow, just wow....

Mike Litoris

bnt wrote: »

Compare to Lewis, who appears to have been tranqulised. I suspect someone's slipped him a Valium.

Yeah, just watched it. I reckon it was heroin though. He even smiled.

Eddie at it again, did he see any of the on-board stuff and the amount of times people spun up tyres?

andyman

Crofty's just pointed out that Rosberg never apologised that the incident even happened when on the podium, which is very, very unlike Rosberg.