Morbid Wrote:
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> gav Wrote:
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> > That's where that awful word 'potential' comes
> > in.
> >
> > I think many of us did expect an era of
> > near-domination from him after his debut
> season.
> > Where Vettel is at the moment is where I
> thought
> > Hamilton would be. Granted he's not always had
> the
> > car to that, but he's gone the other way - he's
> > far less consistent now than he was back in
> 2007,
> > and decreasingly so year by year.
> >
> > He set his own bar very highly from the off.
> > Perhaps it is wrong to have expected him to
> just
> > carry on from there, but I think most of us
> > thought he'd be further along the road now,
> > whereas in reality he appears to be a worse
> driver
> > than he was back in 2007 and to an extent 2008.
>
> That is a nice argument, but it doesn't quite
> cover the bases. There have been other
> mega-talents in F1, that didn't end up with this
> kind of treatment. Frentzen would be one, but I
> think the most obvious comparison would be Kimi
> Räikkönen.
>
> Kimi has more talent in his little finger, than
> most Grand Prix drivers have in their entire
> career. Yet, he never mustered more than 1
> championship. He only one it by a single point
> from Hamilton and Alonso. He would not even have
> gotten the WDC, if Massa hadn't helped him out.
> Everybody knows that Kimi's work ethic's are poor.
> He doesn't want to stay long hours at the factory
> to help develop the car, or to get his mechanics
> to bond with him. He wants to party. We have lots
> of pictures of that. In my mind, the most striking
> image is him drunk out of his mind, in the gutter,
> cuddling a blow up dolphin. People even thought it
> was funny that Johnny Walker dared to sponsor
> McLaren when Kimi acted up the way he did. We
> would get the occasional flashes of brilliance
> here and there, and the rare mind-numbing
> performance, but after his (or rather during the
> later) McLaren days his heart was really never in
> it, and race after race at Ferrari was lack-lustre
> and dull.
>
> Everybody knows this. It is no secret. The same
> attitude proved to be costly for him in his rally
> career. Few (if any in the last couple of decades)
> had "potential" like Kimi, yet he never really
> delivered on it. He had the same "fire and
> brimstone" entry to F1 as Lewis, and had the same
> decline of form over time. But he never did catch
> the hate and spite that Hamilton does. We all know
> that whenever he was interviewed, it was like
> talking to a robot, so I doubt it was Kimi's
> camera "charm" that prevented this.
>
> So why is it different with Lewis? Something else
> than "potential" is driving this.
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?
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2011 05:46PM by Isaint.