Will Hamilton do it this year?

Choke.

There shouldn't be any problem at all given the points lead enjoyed by LH.

I suspect that Raikinen would be less unhappy to see LH win the title than his team mate PM stealing his thunder; therefore unlikely Kimi would pull any stunts to help PM, other than demonstrate himself the better driver and let Massa past towards the end of the race.

The FIA are a different kettle of fish. Nothing more they would like to see than their sponsors winning the constructors' and drivers' championship. So watch out for a few strategic drive through penalties, perhaps the odd safety car; that sort of thing to help the red ones!!

Alonso would love to get one over on McLaren/ LH/ RD, so there is potential for an unavoidable incident between them. I hope not as Alonso is really beginning to shine as potentially the best driver out there, albeit without the best machine.

But perhaps LH's biggest potential enemy is himself. If he can adopt the approach taken today, victory is his. If he gets taken over by a huge desire to show boat like we saw last week then anything is possible.

And I guess that's what makes the final race quite exciting - the unpredictability of what will happen.

Peter

I thought this was a thread about Hamilton Accies fight to stay in the top flight of Scottish football, but it seems to be something to do with racing cars.

who refers to other drivers at the back of the grid as 'monkeys'.

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Originally posted by northpole:
...perhaps LH's biggest potential enemy is himself. If he can adopt the approach taken today, victory is his. If he gets taken over by a huge desire to show boat like we saw last week then anything is possible...

Agree totally, Peter.

On the whole he has had a very mature approach to his driving (or he wouldn't have done so well in both seasons) but at times he has shown a youthful impatience. Whilst a good indicator of ambition and aspiration, last year it ended up with him raining on his own parade. This year if he can just keep control of himself without panic, then he should surely do it.

And as someone whose cause was championed so much by Blue Peter, what a wonderful way it would be of adding to the celebrations for BP's 50th anniversary. He'll even get a gold badge (if he hasn't got one already) and they're second only to an Olympic Gold!

James

Wasn't he 7 points ahead going to Brazil last year?!!

Yes, he was 7 points ahead last year at this point, 17 points ahead with two races to go.

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Originally posted by Sandy8:
Yes, he was 7 points ahead last year at this point, 17 points ahead with two races to go.

That's my point, Sandy.

I'm just thinking that with an extra year under his belt he won't melt down as badly as in his rookie season.

Plenty of things can happen that are beyond his control obviously. I'm sure Alonso would love the chance to trip him up in Brazil...

I'm just glad it's coming down to the last race again this year.

I think he will secure it this time around, but then again - he's just one costly driving mistake away from blowing it.

Hamilton will win it, no problem. A gr8 result for British Motorsport. Apart from Alonso and Kubica, Hamilton is a very complete driver IMHO. This years Ferrari seems very tempramental and it can't seem to qualify with any gutso whatsoever. Raikkonen is a quality driver though.

regards

Dev

He'll need ;-
a degree of luck (ie no bad luck),
he'll need to keep his cool,
& finally it may depend on how the other drivers around him feel about it all. Would Alonso run him off the track to further his chances of a Ferrari seat, for example?
Matt.

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Originally posted by manicatel:
He'll need ;-
a degree of luck (ie no bad luck),
he'll need to keep his cool,
& finally it may depend on how the other drivers around him feel about it all. Would Alonso run him off the track to further his chances of a Ferrari seat, for example?
Matt.

...he is stuffed then since keeping cool has been a problem and most of the other drivers detest him. That is not media reporting based incidentally, I've a mate who works for a top F1 team. If he joined the drivers association it might help, however he sees 'no point' in doing that.

One thing is for sure, if he sticks it into the gravel again this year, it will not dent his armour-plated self belief.

I like my sportsmen with a whiff of humility, parhaps even falibility (hey, I'm British) so I will not be cheering him on for the race. Not sure what is different but I even preferred Schumachers attitude!

Bruce