Formula 1 2016

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38185846

Rosberg retires????

WTF???

I am actually shocked.

Never seen anything like that before.

Tosser

Wow. Good for him. He's left several million tons of cash on the table and a tribe of marketing scumbags speechless for once. Respect.

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Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn

Wow. Good for him. He's left several million tons of cash on the table and a tribe of marketing scumbags speechless for once. Respect.

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well that's certainly a positive spin. And had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he knew that he wasn't in Hamilton's league and this was as good as it got for him.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

well that's certainly a positive spin. And had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he knew that he wasn't in Hamilton's league and this was as good as it got for him.

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Except he's beaten Hamilton.

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Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn

Except he's beaten Hamilton.

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Well depends if you count having it handed to you on a plate by your team and then actually managing to win less races than the guy you "beat" or not

Regardless, if he believed that in a fair battle he could beat Hamilton he wouldn't have retired.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

Well depends if you count having it handed to you on a plate by your team and then actually managing to win less races than the guy you "beat" or not

Regardless, if he believed that in a fair battle he could beat Hamilton he wouldn't have retired.

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Oh come off it. There's no more privileged driver in F1 than Hamilton. He's never sat in anything bar the fastest car, so if Rosberg's pedigree is under examination then Hamilton's should be too. I've watched races where Hamilton dominated Rosberg and vice versa, it has been a fairly close battle over the last few seasons and while Hamilton has come out on top overall he's hardly head and shoulders above. Sometimes you just have to give some credit to the guy who fulfils such a rare ambition. Formula 1 world champ. You don't get there by being afraid to race.

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Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn

Oh come off it. There's no more privileged driver in F1 than Hamilton. He's never sat in anything bar the fastest car, so if Rosberg's pedigree is under examination then Hamilton's should be too. I've watched races where Hamilton dominated Rosberg and vice versa, it has been a fairly close battle over the last few seasons and while Hamilton has come out on top overall he's hardly head and shoulders above. Sometimes you just have to give some credit to the guy who fulfils such a rare ambition. Formula 1 world champ. You don't get there by being afraid to race.

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Hamilton is of course in the fastest car (just like Rosberg), but actually no whenever they have gone directly head to head Hamilton has almost always come out on top and last season won the F1 championship by quite some way.

If Mercedes had not bent over backwards to placate their fellow German there would never have been a contest. And it's not British bias either, i am well aware that Hamilton is an arrogant tool but sometimes mediocre drivers win the F1 Championship and Rosberg is an example of this.

Hamilton is the better driver. Rosberg would shit his pants when it comes to wheel to wheel action. Listen to his comments about not enjoying the final race and you can see why he's retired.