There absolutely isMchamilton wrote: ↑03 Aug 2022, 21:48There's no direct correlation between between downforce level and tyre wear is there so I don't see what your point is?
There absolutely isMchamilton wrote: ↑03 Aug 2022, 21:48There's no direct correlation between between downforce level and tyre wear is there so I don't see what your point is?
There absolutely is.Mchamilton wrote: ↑03 Aug 2022, 21:48
There's no direct correlation between between downforce level and tyre wear is there so I don't see what your point is?
There's no way he went "wet set up" in any way. You don't set fastest lap in a dry race (even if there is some light drizzle at the end) on a wet set up.
Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 09:48There's no way he went "wet set up" in any way. You don't set fastest lap in a dry race (even if there is some light drizzle at the end) on a wet set up.
What rain would do is effectively reduce any power deficit that Mercedes might be suffering. Also Hamilton has great self belief about his skill in the wet.
Yes, indeed so. But I think he was hoping it would be wet for the entire race.The_Engineer wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 09:53Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 09:48There's no way he went "wet set up" in any way. You don't set fastest lap in a dry race (even if there is some light drizzle at the end) on a wet set up.
What rain would do is effectively reduce any power deficit that Mercedes might be suffering. Also Hamilton has great self belief about his skill in the wet.
Lewis wanted rain at the end because he was on a relatively fresh set of softs vs Max on a set of worn Mediums. The soft tyre would give a lot more grip in damp conditions in the final laps of the race.
On the basis of?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 10:20Yes, indeed so. But I think he was hoping it would be wet for the entire race.The_Engineer wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 09:53Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 09:48
There's no way he went "wet set up" in any way. You don't set fastest lap in a dry race (even if there is some light drizzle at the end) on a wet set up.
What rain would do is effectively reduce any power deficit that Mercedes might be suffering. Also Hamilton has great self belief about his skill in the wet.
Lewis wanted rain at the end because he was on a relatively fresh set of softs vs Max on a set of worn Mediums. The soft tyre would give a lot more grip in damp conditions in the final laps of the race.
The Mercedes was disastrous on the wet tires in FP3.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 10:20Yes, indeed so. But I think he was hoping it would be wet for the entire race.The_Engineer wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 09:53Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2022, 09:48
There's no way he went "wet set up" in any way. You don't set fastest lap in a dry race (even if there is some light drizzle at the end) on a wet set up.
What rain would do is effectively reduce any power deficit that Mercedes might be suffering. Also Hamilton has great self belief about his skill in the wet.
Lewis wanted rain at the end because he was on a relatively fresh set of softs vs Max on a set of worn Mediums. The soft tyre would give a lot more grip in damp conditions in the final laps of the race.
Lewis Hamilton: The F1 Superstar on Racism, His Future, and the Shocker That Cost Him a Championship
The maverick driver can handle anything. But spiders. And traffic.
By Chris Heath
August 8, 2022
When Lewis Hamilton became a Formula 1 driver, success came quickly, but an easy sense of belonging did not.
“I didn’t feel like I was welcome,” he tells me. “I didn’t feel like I was accepted. God knows how many of these drivers say: ‘This is not what a Formula 1 driver is. That’s not how you behave. This is not how you do it. Tattoos? No! A Formula 1 driver doesn’t have tattoos! A Formula 1 driver doesn’t have a personality—and piercings!’ ”
Amazing trolling from LewisWouter wrote: ↑08 Aug 2022, 17:27
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.Lewis Hamilton: The F1 Superstar on Racism, His Future, and the Shocker That Cost Him a Championship
I ask him whether this feels as though it is particularly directed toward him.
“I mean, yeah,” he replies. “Because I’m the only one that has jewelry on, really.”
Aware that the issue was coming to a head, Hamilton attended a press conference before the Miami Grand Prix in May wearing—in an act of playful mockery and protest—rings on every finger, multiple chains, and three watches. “I just put on as much as I could,” he says. He announced that, if need be, he would refuse to race rather than remove his race-day jewelry, and also upped the ante—and sent the internet bubbling—with this comment: “As I said, I can’t remove at least two of them. One, I can’t really explain where it is.”
This, Hamilton now insists, was flippant provocation. “I was just --- with it,” he says, laughing. “I don’t have any other piercings anywhere. But I love that there’s this thinking: ---, has he got his balls pierced?”