Make Up Your Mind!

Over the past week, we seem to be getting a lot of confusion statements out of the McLaren camp.

First off, we got the ‘oh, my neck hurt and I nearly didn’t race’ excuse. Yes, that’s right. I used the word excuse! If you’re hurt and sick, then say it before the weekend, not after it when you have been comprehensively beaten. It just makes you look weak.

Then McLaren hammered on about being conservative, that they just had to wait for Ferrari to slip up. But, before the race, Hamilton was all ‘I’m never going to let myself get beaten again’ like he was at Hungary. This is the same guy who claims he races to win and nothing else will do. Why the sudden change in strategy?

Waiting for something else to happen is not only lazy, but dangerous. You have to make your own destiny. There is every chance that Ferrari overcome their problems and if is Lewis is in Sunday drive mode, he could lose his shot at the title.

After the whole we were taking it easy story, there was another, where Hamilton a basically said that he was pushing his ass off, and he still couldn’t catch Massa. This completely contradicts what he and McLaren said post-race. Nothing new from the boys in silver.

Ron Dennis, who he himself is stuck a will he, won’t he tug of war with himself about retirement, chimed in stating that Lewis is the best driver in F1 today. If I was trying to talk my driver as the best driver today, I would point out to his awesome drives, even those he didn’t win, to prove how great he is. Alas, Dennis went to the stats book. You don’t judge how great a driver is after two years. Let him grow, mature, see how he does over time and then say that. Oh, and Ron, the car matters. You may think it’s not, but when you have one of the best cars in Formula One, it does.

Which leads us to the final statement of the week – so far, although I don’t think the press offices do much business on a weekend. Lewis stating that he isn’t number two to anyone, including Schumacher. Sure, just when we think your ego can’t get any bigger – you go for the death star sized ego. Well done! This ties in with the point above. It takes a lot of audacity to compare yourself to a seven-time world champion, who smashed practically every record in the books.

Don’t get me wrong, Hamilton has an abundance of talent, something I have nothing but respect for. He may very well achieve the same sort of success as the German. But keep your tongue in your mouth and just drive. Maybe it’s the final run-in; he’s like an excited kid waiting for Christmas. He can’t hold in his excitement and suddenly all this ego enhancing dribble comes running out. It was the same last year, when he stuck his nose into the spy-gate affair when he really didn’t need to.

Let your driver do the talking.