I Still Hate Steve Slater

Well it was a wet and wild British (Probably the only time wet and wild is used in the same sentence as British) Grand Prix yesterday and after a good start Hamilton found himself ahead of Raikonnen going into the first Pit stops. For some reason the rationale of which I still can’t fathom Ferrari chose not to change Kimi`s tiers and kept him out on the Fairly worn out Intermediates.

This as expected did not work out and the lead which Hamilton had before the pits of 2 seconds grew to 23 in the first lap out. Things only got worse from there as it started to rain pretty heavily and Kimi saw his Ferrari being overtaken by just about everyone and fell rather rapidly to 11th place.

This was cue for Steve Slater to start with his chauvinistic commentary vis-à-vis where he does nothing but praise everything Hamilton. True Hamilton did well to win a quiet difficult race where everyone seemed to be skidding all over the place, but even after we all knew that he had sewn up the winner’s spot well and truly “Steve I Love Hamilton Slater” continued with his unabashed brown nosery.

At one point perhaps realizing how far he went with comments like “Watch how Hamilton gently slides it in..” he stated “Its not that I am biased towards Hamilton ,or that because he is British…” In fact he felt the need to state this twice more during the course of the race which goes to show the verbal assault viewers who do not happen to be British or Mclaren supporters had to endure.

I have no problem with someone loving Hamilton in a way that is both admirable and a little disturbing (refer to sliding it in gently comment), I believe in freedom of speech and a right to like, support and praise whoever one feels like doing so. What I do have a problem with however is paying for (last time I checked cable TV was a paid subscription) coverage in which I am forced to listen to non stop “AAAmilton this and AAMilton that”.

So Star/ESPN either get you commentators in line (i.e. get an un biased one) or watch as you lose viewers to the free internet sites. Get some commentators who will give balanced opinions not restricted to “The Ferrari/Renault looks light on fuel” IMHO I`d say get Chris Goodwin back and get rid of Steve Slater, I found Chris Goodwin both Knowledgeable about F1 as well as un-opinionated despite being a Test driver for Mclaren.

Lewis Hamilton crashes into Raikonnen

Yesterday`s win by Robert Kubica was overshadowed by a spectacularly stupid crash by Lewis Hamilton.After the safety car was brought out to remove Farce India`s car driven by Adrian Sutil, all the leaders expectedly pitted.Doing a quick stop Raikonnen exited ahead of Hamilton and alongside eventual winner Kubica.

Both the Ferrari of Raikonnen and Kubica in his BMW braked at the pit exit for the Stop Signal (still active to allow the Safety car back in). Its at this point that Hamilton possibly not seeing the signal but desparate to get back as close to Raikonnen hits the brakes late and turns to the left,avoiding Kubica (who he normally would have hit) but instead plowing into the Ferrari.

The upshot of this is that both drivers were out of Canada with no points and Hamilton goes into Magny Cours with a 10 place starting grid penalty.

Post Edit:Just saw THIS article about Hamilton Sr. crashing his car a few days earlier,like Father like son?