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Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:00:36 +0000

[...] A bad day for media hype – The British press didn’t get the result it wanted at Silverstone. [...]

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:57:38 +0000

The media is a dangerous beast, though I’m waiting for the day that a suicide bomber born in Surrey gets thwarted by an illegal immigrant from Poland. Should be interesting to see what happens then…

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:03:43 +0000

Totally agree – I was getting sick of the whole Hamilton adoration before the race. I had to record it, and was able to fast-forward 10 minutes and they were still talking about Lewis.

Brundle’s flag moment was worthy of the legendary Murray in him saying the wrong thing at absolutely the wrong time. At least Murray, while being very biased towards the british drivers, would divert the commentary to the other drivers in the field from time to time.

To be fair, Lewis’ qualifying lap was incredible (even if we only got to see the last 2 corners of it), but I wonder how fast Raikkonen would have been had he not run out of kerb at the end of Woodcote.

By: peterg

peterg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:31:22 +0000

I’ve become harden to the hype that this young, talented, still F1 inexperienced driver gets lumped with. He has done everything that could be expected of a new hot shoe thrown into the deep end of F1 in a front row team. He has but “9″ races under the belt – still has not performed the inevitable, forgivable rookie thump into the Armco – & already he is being burdened with the weight of expectations that a seasoned campaigner like Nigel M had to bare.

Luckily the kid seems to have a very level head on his shoulders & may be able to stay above it, if you listen to the MSM he dropped the ball at the Brit GP. Apparently nothing but perfection is what he is meant to deliver. Has anybody stopped to consider that every recent F1 champ Schui, Mika, Alonso got to serve a apprenticeship with a Minardi, first year Jordan, struggling Lotus etc. My God! Senna spent a year learning the ropes in a Toleman, but no Lewis must win every race & the Championship in his debut year.

I hope Lewis just keeps his head down & delivering what he has been doing. I for one won’t be reading the rubbish that is written about him.
Particularly when he makes his first mistake….he is human after all.

By: Fun F1

Fun F1 — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:36:48 +0000

I forgot that they tried to put a good spin on him messing up the pit stop!

If Lewis walked away from an accident I wouldn’t be surprised to hear James Allen say something like “Hamilton’s amazing driving skills meant he was able to avoid injury.” And of course the car would be blamed for the accident before anything was proven of course

By: sidepodcast.com

sidepodcast.com — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:47:21 +0000

i think you’re right. after his pit-lane incident, lewis looked out of sorts for the rest of the race. embarrassed almost. could be downhill from here.