Nico is in the best team and car combination right now. There are still races to go. Nico did nothing wrong with his approach to the weekend. If you look at the history of the sport there are guys that seem to get some of the racing luck and some that don't. He is so close to being brilliant. He can unlock that, but he just has not found that yet.

"I don't lose any sleep about not winning a world championship," he said. "I got beaten by better people. Simple as that.

"I would never have wanted to win the championship in a weak season. Take away Mika Hakkinen and Michael Schumacher, I probably would have won the championship, would it make me a better racer standing here today? No it wouldn't."

Lady je napisao/la:Arai san nam ipak otkriva da želi promjene pravila ili ti ga drugim riječima '' Zahebali smo sve...''

Honda's Yasuhisa Arai says he wants to see a change in the regulations that would allow the struggling engine constructor make up ground on its main rivals.

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A Lewis se ipak pribojava proboja konkurencije...hmm...malo čudno, jer je dok je Vettel 2013 jurišao iz pobjede u pobjedu, Lewis rekao da ne bi volio tako pobjeđivat i da je uvijek za to da ima više konkurenata za samu pobjedu.

Lewis Hamilton fears that Mercedes’ rivals may be catching up



Lewis Hamilton has admitted that his Mercedes team still have no idea what caused his retirement from Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix and is worried that the problems will persist at next weekend’s race in Japan.

This Friday morning in Suzuka may now be the most important day of Hamilton’s season as he attempts to win a third world championship title. That is when the points leader, who was forced to quit a race for the first time this season, will know if his car really has lost the form which had made it so dominant in the last campaign and for most of this season.

If it has, and Ferrari dominate like they did last weekend, a battle royal with their driver Sebastian Vettel could be on the cards over the remaining six races.

Mercedes struggled to get Pirelli’s supersoft-compound tyres “switched on” in Singapore as Ferrari and Red Bull both hit their sweet spot and totally overshadowed the Silver Arrows for the first time. This weekend, Ferrari are bringing their hard and medium tyres, on which the Mercedes has traditionally worked well.

Nevertheless Hamilton admitted that, up to the early hours of yesterday at least, his engineers had not been able to provide him with any concrete evidence of what went awry for the team that had been a class above the rest of the field this season.

“I’m not confident,” he said of his immediate prospects. “My engineers have not yet been able to give me any information on why we were struggling. The car felt balanced, but it lacked grip and we don’t yet know why, and there’s not a lot of time left before we race again next weekend.

“I wonder if it was just that our car didn’t get slower but that maybe others upgraded their cars.” He said that emails would be flying between him and the engineers all the way up to his arrival in Suzuka.

Typically, though, Hamilton is staying upbeat. “I was really happy with my race pace, and the gap to Kimi Raikkonen in front of me was only what it was because if you follow too close it’s easy to damage the tyres and generally overheat the car,” he said.

“I was able to push at the end of the stints and was confident of my pace on the soft Pirellis, which matched the three leaders on the supersofts. I thought I was in a good position.

“Before my problem with power loss, I was absolutely sure that I would have undercut at least two of the cars ahead of me. In my mind, I thought I might have the chance to win.

“Personally, I’m very chilled about last weekend. I was there to do a job, and I’m fully aware that you can’t win them all. Shit happens.

“I’m very fortunate with the success we’ve had, and pleased with the job I did. I outqualified my team-mate. And was ahead of him in the race before the car broke.

“That’s the first time that’s happened in a long time, and I didn’t lose a huge amount of points,” he added. “I take the glass half-full view. It could have been a lot worse.”

But if Mercedes are still off the pace on Friday morning on a track which should suit them perfectly, the team alarm bells will be ringing.

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Ovo šta sam podebljala i podcrtala u članku o Lewisu..... da li mu je netko rekao da je imao sporiji tempo od Vettela za cca 1 sekundu gledajući Vettelova vremena na softu?

Q: (Andrea Cremonesi - La Gazzetta dello Sport) For all of you: some of your colleagues yesterday were worried about the tyre pressures. They said there was too much pressure and they were worried they might have some problems during the race. Have you been affected in the race by that?

NR: No, not at all. Everything was perfect. No problems at all.

SV: Were you low again? I’m joking. You can laugh as well. It was a joke, come on.

NR: I’m smiling!

LH: I don’t know really. All I know is that the tyres were... we don’t say it very often but the tyres were pretty amazing, particularly in the last stint. They were the best they’ve felt for a long time. They really felt really good but it must have been how it felt for him (Vettel) in the last race. Through qualifying, they were good but generally in the race it was getting better and better as the car gets lighter and stuff but I don’t think they were a problem this weekend.

SV: No comment really.

Brumica je napisao/la:Možda se većina neće složiti, ali meni je Alonsov potez bio skroz neprofesionalan. Mogu razumjeti frustraciju koju osjeća, to je vozač koji zaslužuje puno, puno bolji bolid i tko zna što su mu McLaren i Honda obećali, no to se tako ne radi. On kao da se cijelu sezonu ne može dogovoriti sam sa sobom što će reći medijima. Non stop se gura neki lažni optimizam bez pokrića, govori da mu nije žao što je otišao iz Ferrarija jer su oni još uvijek samo drugi i onda paf, pukne ko kokica u ovoj utrci na radiju. I još, nakon utrke izjavi da je McLaren jedina momčad koja će u budućnosti zaprijetiti Mercedesu. Pa čovječe, Ferrari im već sad prijeti, maznuli su im tri pobjede ove sezone, a sljedeće tko zna. Neće biti iznenađenje ako će biti rame uz rame s Mercom. Tako da, mislim da sljedećih dana treba stati na loptu i dogovoriti se sam sa sobom što misli, a što ne i biti malo realan jer povratak na staze uspjeha, sudeći po trenutnom stanju, neće biti tako skoro.

croatic f1 je napisao/la: Pa neće valjda odmah, u prvoj sezoni sa momčadi početi javno srati po njima, govoriti medijima kako je užasno pogriješio ili kako jedva čeka da ode. Naravno da mu nije lako i naravno da tijekom utrke zato pukne, situacija u kakvoj se nalazi on je iznimno frustrirajuća i nije čudo da popizdi tijekom utrke, vruće glave, ali kad se ohladi, čovjek se smiri i shvati da mora ostati pozitivan i nadati se da će ovaj noćna mora uskoro prestati i da će uskoro uspjeti doći do mjesta na koje on i cijela momčad ciljaju.

Felipe je napisao/la:Nisam vjerovao Laudi kada se žalio na malu pokrivenost tijekom prenosa, ali...




Jel itko primjetio Ricciarda jučer na Tedovoj bilježnici?

hattrick je napisao/la: "Let's wait and shit"