Re: Monza Report Card

~misfit~ wrote:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs Frank Adam wrote:
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:34:17 -0400, News <News@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

mower man wrote:
News wrote:
mower man wrote:
Mark wrote:
Richard Miller <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
McLaren

Oops. Well, Hamilton had nothing to lose. He's not in the
running for the title, and the points don't mean a huge amount,
so he might as well go for it. All credit to him for fighting
to the end, and it's just a shame that something went wrong on
the last lap. I am assuming at the moment that he just put a
wheel off and paid the price, but I don't have definitive news
on that.
Does *anyone* have definitive news? My first reaction from the
pictures
I have was that there was a catastrophic failure of part of the
rear end
rather than him hitting anything. I saw him spin, but the wheel
looked so far back I wondered if the wheel coming off had caused
the spin rather than the other way around.

Sadly, my children intervened so I didn't get to see beyond the
end of race.

Does anyone have pictures which show what actually happened?
I've seen the replay several times now. Looks like he got the left
rear over the kerb and onto the astroturf. He was pushing very
hard and had little to lose.

Right, just all the points... Are you a professional apologist?
If you can detect an apology in an an explanation, you must be a
little unhinged.

He has no chance of the championship, nor does his team. Third place
wasn't enough for him so he was having a pop at getting second.
That all seems pretty normal behaviour for a racing driver. Well,
one who actually races, anyway. Geddit?

Nice wind-up. Points mean shyte.

A professional apologist. "Geddit"?

Hmm, if the points were in serious need, the team would have told him
to "take it easy, 3rd is good".
I'm guessing he wasn't told, so he was allowed to freelance.

Now stop being an arse. ;)

I fear that would require him to stop breathing.


Well, put your fears aside. Test your thesis. Stop breathing.

Write back and let us know how that works for you.
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