Lewis H is hosting breakfast show on R4 Boxing Day. Can’t work out if it will be interesting or cringe worthy …
I do so wish they’d hold back on giving Honours until a person has retired.
Nothing against (Sir) LH in all this…but it just doesn’t sit right IMO.
100% agree HL, what’ll they do if/when he wins the next one & becomes the outright F1 W.Championship winner.
Then the sticky question of his overseas tax status and to overcome this he has been recognised through the “diplomatic and overseas” list to avoid controversy. Personally if I earned his money, I would be overseas in a shot, so good luck to him on that.
My beef is with the award system that gives gongs when sports people specifically are still active. All sports people have a short & limited life, let’s just wait another year or so until they retire.
Andy Murray was Knighted in 2016 and is still playing.
Andy Murray was knighted in 2016 and is still playing, Bradley Wiggins knighted in 2012 - retired in 2016.
I know - and these don’t sit right with me for same reasons.
Just look up Paul Collingwood’s MBE in 2006, following the 2005 Ashes’ series in the UK.
It’s almost like the Honours are being given on a populist basis - which was never the case going back many years.
Anyway, we’re off-piste and dicing with political matters (not just blue and red slalom gates).
Rob Baxter getting an OBE FFS
Why not start an honours thread and expand?
The Australian & Chinese races have been postponed.
These were the 1st & 3rd on the 2021 schedule, 2021 will now start with Bahrain (the 2nd scheduled race) on 26-28 March.
Melbourne’s not happy but I think it’s the right thing. There’s too many people travelling with F 1 these days and they’d all have to go into 14 isolation. Don’t think the teams (drivers) were too keen. I think late spring (our time) would be a better idea.
Hope this is relevant under this topic as it did not seem worth starting a separate thread for.
’The best car always wins’
I am fed up of hearing this comment (especially against Lewis Hamilton).
Being born near Brands Hatch, my first live motor race, at the age of 9, was when my F1 mad uncle took me to see Jim Clark win the 1965 British GP. He also won the salon car race an hour before the GP if I recall correctly but that is a different subject.
Since then I can’t really recall a year when the best car, or equal best car, hasn’t won.
From 1965 to the late 80’/early 90’s, F1 cars were extremely unreliable & even the best drivers would be lucky to even finish more than half the races most seasons. The fastest car was no good if you couldn’t get it to the finish line. So what was the best car - the fastest or the most reliable?
Once cars became far more reliable, say around 1990, then I am struggling to recall any car winning the title that was not at least the equal best on the grid.
I can’t imagine Schumacher, Senna, Prost, Stewart, Mansell etc. achieving what they did in any car that was not at least equal to the perceived best that season. All were fine drivers but I suspect that none would have become world champions driving cars that were mid-grid at best.
The trick the greats seem to have is getting themselves into the right car at the right time. To get the right seat also means that someone has to spot & recognise that they are better than their contemporaries in the first place!
Hamilton Contract negotiations: Merc appear to be playing hardball. Hamilton currently unemployed.
Some drivers were good in second rate teams Jodie Schetcher won races In bad cars
Some of hunts teams were not so good and he won races.
It is not always the car
I think they were very different times. Back then you bought a DFV, bolted onto your chassis and you could have a decent chance of success if you had a tidy driver. Now the gap in the budgets and resources is so huge you simply cant do that, just look how Williams has fallen from grace. Even a top manufacturer like Lola which has untold success in most formula could not break F1.
Would so like to see Hamilton dropped from the team. Was a great fan of his when he started out, but all the woke sh*t he now gets up to doesn’t appeal.
Is he really worth £40M+ to Mercedes?
I think Hamilton wants a 3 year deal. Mercs plans do not go that far into the future. Rumour of them wanting to sell before then. They wouldn’t want that financial commitment on the books.
Maybe your personal feelings about this is not considering the real world.
Love him & his private life or not, whatever Mercedes & Hamilton eventually agree is a pure business/commercial matter.
no driver is worth 40 million pounds it is beyond belief.
And your thoughts on the 12 sportsmen above him in the 2020 Forbes List? I suppose if you’re a supporter of the capitalist market system then it simply is a matter of supply and demand. I personally think it’s pretty obscene, but certainly no worse than the millions (billions in some cases) made by others elsewhere in the world economy. Must be careful else this could get political, and we mustn’t do that!
Timmo that is true. ant Declan is worth £60 million. Lewis god bless him Risks his life driving
At fast speeds with great skill.