Isaint Wrote:
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> Very interesting comment here. I'm very intrigued,
> I also agree that there seems to be something that
> we are all missing but maybe Lewis know's, hence,
> his demure demeanor. Are we actually witnessing
> the deliberate distruction of a very talented
> sportsman for reasons unknown, through powers
> unknown?
I think we are witnessing the destruction of a talented sportsman. I don't think that it is unknown powers for unknown reasons. This not a new phenomena, Hamilton is just the latest addition to the process. As I wrote earlier this season:
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It is so fascinating to watch, how the British tabloids produce copy, by building up home grown sports stars, and once the public grows tired of heroism, they produce copy by tearing them down again. It is even more fascinating to watch how the mob eats it raw and cries for more slaughter, without giving any reflection at all to this pattern. I am so grateful, that I am not a star of any kind in your country.
This is what is going on. And it perpetuates itself through the mindless repetitions of drones, that have nothing better to do.
If you want to talk about what Hamilton did wrong, then you shouldn't look after whether or not he got everything "handed" to him, or if Ron Dennis disappeared from the F1 team. I'd rather look to the comments Brawn made about Vettel recently:
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... the next challenge would be to display an ability to replicate Schumacher and turn an uncompetitive team in to title challengers.
"For Sebastian, what will come now, which will be an interesting phase of his career, will be when he has not got the best car," Brawn is quoted by Autosport. "I think you have a fantastic driver in the best car, and that combination is unbeatable. It will be interesting to see Sebastian's role, Sebastian's influence, Sebastian's position when perhaps he does not have the best car, he has to make it the best car, and has to create the best car."
Brawn said that the move will come in the future when Vettel finds himself in need of a fresh challenge.
"That will be another chapter of Sebastian Vettel when it comes - and it will come. Perhaps he will make it happen himself, because he will go to another team as he wants them to be successful. And the challenge for Sebastian will be exactly the same as it was for Michael, that you have won two world championships, so what is next? What is the new challenge for me? What is the motivation?
Hamilton should have departed from McLaren after the WDC. I know that he felt a debt of gratitude, but on the other hand, how will you develop your game and skills without fresh inputs and challenges? Throughout his meteoric career, he has always had to deal with a new type of car, in a new team, in a new racing series. That ended with the "lifetime" McLaren commitment. Where is the challenge that will provoke his brain to be constantly aware and ready to expand into new areas? The skills he had in 2007 are just not good enough now, because everybody else have grown over the last 4 years.
Button knew this, probably from experience with the shift from Honda constantly leaking everything into a slow death (to the utter humiliation of being beaten by Super Aguri, running a modified Honda from the previous season), to the unbelievable success of BrawnGP in just a single season. It was fresh people, fresh thinking and the total uncertainty of the team's future, forcing a new challenge upon him, that squeezed the very best out of him. The reasoning is simple: "I need a challenge like that again. I know, let's go beat Hamilton at McLaren! That will keep me on my toes!"
If you look back at the articles that covered Button's break with BrawnGP and the signing with McLaren, and even Rosberg's enthusiastic response to the possibility of Mercedes signing Schumacher, this is actually the reasoning that powered those choices! They wanted the challenge!
Lewis needs to do the same, to get out there and get new currents of fresh water over the stagnant parts of the corral reef. Break off the old sh!t and get new growth going.
It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2011 03:55PM by Morbid.