Hamilton: No upgrades in Germany
Eurosport - Fri, 03 Jul 17:50:00 2009
British ace Lewis Hamilton said McLaren are not expecting any upgrades for the next race at the Nurburgring in Germany.
Hamilton goes into the German Grand Prix - rotating back to the Nurburgring after it was held at Hockenheim last year - 11th in the World Championship, with the MP4-24 failing to match up to some of the other challengers, most notably the Brawn of compatriot Jenson Button.
He has finished 16th, 13th and 12th in his last three races.
"The last time we raced at the Nurburgring was in 2007, and I remember I had a tough afternoon battling through from the back of the field to finish just outside the points," he said.
"It's a fantastic circuit, a little older than a lot of the current tracks we currently visit and with quite a different feel to what we're used to: it's fast and flowing with some good spots for overtaking.
"And it's in a fantastic part of the world too; deep in the forests of western Germany, where the fans seem to live and breathe Formula One. It's always an amazing party atmosphere whenever we race in Germany.
"While we aren't expecting any major upgrades for this weekend, I'm still looking forward to the race.
"It's an honour to be part of the Silver Arrows and, while our results haven't recently shown it, we're still pushing incredibly hard and are all hopeful of moving closer to the front before the end of this difficult season."
The race will mark the end of the traditional mid-season three-week break for testing - although with in-season testing banned, none of the teams have been able to get on track.
Hamilton was runner-up to Kimi Raikkonen in the 2007 season but bounced back in 2008, pipping Felipe Massa to the title.
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the hamster slapping will continue
Marcel have you only just noticed that?
Well thank you for that Paul Hancock. As I read that post from Muppetroot the answer formed immediately in my head but when I glanced at the next post - you had nicked my riposte.
You can go off people you know.
retrocoredc
'Alonso bummers' lol. I haven't heard anyone called a 'bummer' since school!
Marcel
No mate, it's not just you. It's a scientifically proven fact.
touron, sorry where are ferrari with the knowledge of ferrari then ?, ho yes, NOWHERE
Enzo Ferrari 9 WDC, 8 CC
Ron Dennis 10WDC, 7 CC with Ferrari parts
Lewis Hamilton, youngest ever world champion driving a contreversal 80% ferrari 20% mclaren, was let to win to save the biggest embarassment in world of motor racing.
2009 proves this point with out the knowledge of Ferrari, WHERE ARE MCLAREN(KNOWHERE).
McLaren only team to win Can-AM, Indy, LeMans and multiple F1 world championships. All in record time.
McLaren acknowledged manufacturers of 'the' greatest road car,with a copied carbon-fibre monocoque chassis,and deemed not road legal as they(FORGOT)to add front indicators.
McLaren official rebels against the Ferrari fake royalty.
McLaren true enemy of the FIA, Max, Bernie and Ferrari.
Mclaren, the rebel team against the Ferrari fake royalty.
Remember all the corruption McLaren have had to suffer because Ron Dennis ordered plans to be stolen from ferrari, but as a true idiot didn't know that the plans were on all the mclaren computers.( didn't know) that everybody at mclaren knew what was on the computers, but the biggest cheat in history didn't know.
That phenomena is just the difference between the hardcore McLaren and the lightweight Ferrari, the exclusive McLaren and the mass Ferrari. The Ferrari fans are like little kids or, er Michael Jackson fans. By the way did you know Jacko is dead? anyway, the McLaren and Hamilton fans are connoisseurs. They make up their own minds unlike the red sheep or latino Alonso bummers. The McLaren fans would have been the old spitfire pilots. Brawn and Williams fans too. All the good guys. The others are the dirty nasty little sneaks.
Is it me or are the McLaren and Hamilton fans just a little bit more intelligent than the average Ferrari or other fans? I think so.
Enzo Ferrari 9 WDC, 8 CC
Ron Dennis 10WDC, 7 CC
Lewis Hamilton, youngest ever world champion
McLaren only team to win Can-AM, Indy, LeMans and multiple F1 world championships. All in record time.
McLaren acknowledged manufacturers of 'the' greatest road car.
McLaren official rebels against the Ferrari fake royalty.
McLaren true enemy of the FIA, Max, Bernie and Ferrari.
Mclaren, the rebel team against the Ferrari fake royalty.
Remember all the corruption McLaren have had to suffer under Bernie and Max and Ferrari just because McLaren and Hamilton were a threat. Never forget. Bernie now admits his admiration for Hitler, imagine if we had known that a couple of years ago. Still Hamilton became the youngest ever world champion, despite everything they could throw at him and his team.
The beauty of the Mclarens. The Mclaren ruffians are pure and utter class. Ron Dennis has the same career record as Enzo Ferrari in terms of titles won when they were in charge and McLaren has done so much more than Ferrari in such a shorter space of time. The beauty of the MP4/4 maybe only matched by the beauty of the carbon Williams FW 14B.
Lewis Hamilton number of seasons in F1 before winning first WDC title. 2. Courtesy of McLaren.
Michael Schumacher number of seasons in F1 before winning first WDC title 4.
Fernando Alonso number of seasons in F1 before winning first WDC title. 5.
Kimi Raikkonen number of seasons in F1 before winning first WDC title. 7.
McLaren always have the coolest drivers, Hunt, Senna, Hakkinen, Hamilton and the best road cars, and the only team to have won Can Am, Indy, Lemans and F1 titles. McLaren are the true ultra's of world motorsport.
Contradictions, contradictions. No F1 driver lives in his home country, not one, not even Trulli, who most people think has Italy as his main residence.
Hamilton still gets his honour from the queen. No problems. Hamilton is the ray of light and the only hope for F1. The kids got class.
yes, but the mr hamiltons son lied. and then when he champion he forget about his working class background by going to the swiss to avoid the paying his taxes which would the help the orther poverty stricken people. he now the rich gentleman who not give the damn about the people he the left behind. and he drive for the mclaren ruffian.
Your right of course marnio, but since you have a moral streak about the middle and upper class then why the hell dont you appreciate Hamilton. He is as working class as they come, council house background, dad worked three jobs. Look at drivers like Alonso and Rosberg and Piquet and although I think he's great, Button at the end of the day is just another rich kid with a millionaire dad and a private education.
Your seriously confused and supporting the wrong peolpe my old friend.
hello my f1 friendless internet boggers, it your only friend here, marnio from the peru.
why there the no f1 race this the weekend?
is it because that boring tennis tournament on?
i not like the the tennis. i look at the upper middle class people in the crowd, clapping the politely, smiling in their design sunglasses, eating the strawberry and the cream wasting their lives, watching some idiots who could not make it in a proper sport, hitting the ball over a net for 7 hours.
And Burt the Muppet of course.
I am the site Angel and I thumb down muppets.
On this page I have thumbed down the following muppets: Stephen W (a case for euthanasia could be made here), the Jeanette Bolan ID of Potter and old brainless Colin Smith (touronroute).
But not brucef1lee because he hasnt put up that annoying big post, that is silly enough to get him thumbed for all posts but lets hope this young idiot can mend his ways. He claims to be human, well lets find out then Bruce.
One thing you are right about Bruce is that I am very fit.
It gave me great pleasure to thumb down touronroute, sadly missed during his recent period on remand and remember the TR scale is named after this little, old and stupid chappie.
These muppets are all greater than 80 on the touronroute muppet scale, with touronroute being exactly 100 as per scale definition.
i do wish the FIA would make up their minds what to do with the nurburgring, first it was 17 miles long, then carved up, then it was the European GP, german Gp, the Luxemburg GP, then the European GP and now the German GP again
POTTER you wierd pr ick. You whacked up nut job. Lol
Enzo Ferrari 9 WDC, 8 CC
Ron Dennis 10WDC, 7 CC
Lewis Hamilton, youngest ever world champion
McLaren only team to win Can-AM, Indy, LeMans and multiple F1 world championships. All in record time.
McLaren acknowledged manufacturers of 'the' greatest road car.
McLaren official rebels against the Ferrari fake royalty.
McLaren true enemy of the FIA, Max, Bernie and Ferrari.
Mclaren, the rebel team against the Ferrari fake royalty.
Remember all the corruption McLaren have had to suffer under Bernie and Max and Ferrari just because McLaren and Hamilton were a threat. Never forget.
Bernie now admits his admiration for Hitler, imagine if we had known that a couple of years ago. Still Hamilton became the youngest ever world champion, despite everything they could throw at him and his team.
The beauty of the Mclarens. The Mclaren ruffians are pure and utter class. Ron Dennis has the same career record as Enzo Ferrari in terms of titles won when they were in charge and McLaren has done so much more than Ferrari in such a shorter space of time. The beauty of the MP4/4 maybe only matched by the beauty of the carbon Williams FW 14B.
McLaren always have the coolest drivers, Hunt, Senna, Hakkinen, Hamilton and the best road cars, and the only team to have won Can Am, Indy, Lemans and F1 titles. McLaren are the true ultra's of world motorsport.
Enzo Ferrari 9 WDC, 8 CC
Ron Dennis 10WDC, 7 CC
Lewis Hamilton, youngest ever world champion
McLaren only team to win Can-AM, Indy, LeMans and multiple F1 world championships. All in record time.
McLaren acknowledged manufacturers of 'the' greatest road car.
McLaren official rebels against the Ferrari fake royalty.
McLaren true enemy of the FIA, Max, Bernie and Ferrari.
Mclaren, the rebel team against the Ferrari fake royalty.
Remember all the corruption McLaren have had to suffer under Bernie and Max and Ferrari just because McLaren and Hamilton were a threat. Never forget.
Bernie now admits his admiration for Hitler, imagine if we had known that a couple of years ago. Still Hamilton became the youngest ever world champion, despite everything they could throw at him and his team.
The beauty of the Mclarens. The Mclaren ruffians are pure and utter class. Ron Dennis has the same career record as Enzo Ferrari in terms of titles won when they were in charge and McLaren has done so much more than Ferrari in such a shorter space of time. The beauty of the MP4/4 maybe only matched by the beauty of the carbon Williams FW 14B.
McLaren always have the coolest drivers, Hunt, Senna, Hakkinen, Hamilton and the best road cars, and the only team to have won Can Am, Indy, Lemans and F1 titles. McLaren are the true ultra's of world motorsport.
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