I call for Martin Whitmarsh's resignation!! He's destroying McLaren. I would like to know who is this dumb mechanic who left that blanket lying around in the ventilator duct. He surely deserves to be punished. I see McLaren entering a major declining phase, just like the one they had after Honda pulled out at the end of 1992. No more Merc money & the mp4-12c will not hit the markets until the summer of 2012.

McLaren don't seem to care much for their fans either. Honestly I think McLaren have lost touch with reality. They don't have the desire to win multiple titles. Their last WCC was way back in 1998 & that was a one off. Other wise you would have to go back to Senna's time in 1991. They boast of having the best tech facilities,engineers, 2 recent WDC's yet they manage mega-cockups.

Pat Fry has left the team. Maybe he knows something we don't. This team is being run very very inefficiently by a BAE expatriate. Whitmarsh will do well to note that the sole money for F1 development is coming from major sponsors like Vodafone.

ATM_ANDY WE FANS DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!

This was not McLaren's finest moment. Lewis did the best he could but the car is not good enough and Lewis is starting to look and sound none too happy. I can see Lewis leaving McLaren at the end of the season unless there is a considerable improvement.

I call for Martin Whitmarsh's resignation!! He's destroying McLaren. I would like to know who is this dumb mechanic who left that blanket lying around in the ventilator duct. He surely deserves to be punished. I see McLaren entering a major declining phase, just like the one they had after Honda pulled out at the end of 1992. No more Merc money & the mp4-12c will not hit the markets until the summer of 2012.

McLaren don't seem to care much for their fans either. Honestly I think McLaren have lost touch with reality. They don't have the desire to win multiple titles. Their last WCC was way back in 1998 & that was a one off. Other wise you would have to go back to Senna's time in 1991. They boast of having the best tech facilities,engineers, 2 recent WDC's yet they manage mega-cockups.

Pat Fry has left the team. Maybe he knows something we don't. This team is being run very very inefficiently by a BAE expatriate. Whitmarsh will do well to note that the sole money for F1 development is coming from major sponsors like Vodafone.

ATM_ANDY WE FANS DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!

Thankfully there is nowhere for Lewis to go. He is too classy to go to a **** team like Red Bull and Alonso probably has a no-Lewis clause in his contract. Merc is a huge ?? because that team has been average for its entire existence bar last year.

?... a **** team like Red Bull who have provided a HOT car for two years running, leading the WDC and WCC...

Man, forget 2 wins in this year? Just be patient. We may don't have best cars, but we have best drivers. Don't give up.

Thankfully there is nowhere for Lewis to go. He is too classy to go to a **** team like Red Bull and Alonso probably has a no-Lewis clause in his contract. Merc is a huge ?? because that team has been average for its entire existence bar last year.

I said scummy... I don't know why it got censored

Those were flukes. You don't often see the leader crashing / spinning and having the 2nd place car win the race that way.

As if Hamilton would refuse to drive for the team with the best car for 2 years running because some (for unclear reasons) call it a **** team? However, he is under contract at Mclaren and since Vettel and Webber are both doing great, there is no need to rock the boat at Red Bull. They won't be letting Webber go while he drives like this, and Vettel is their protégé.

Why is it that just because people hear a hot headed response from Lewis, it means they think he's going to leave the team?

You do realise that comms that we DON'T hear consists of a lot of swearing and bickering, right?

What we hear on the radio has NO BEARING on the relationship between a driver and the team.

The sport isn't as mickey mouse as people think it is, or the way it is presented to be.

It's stupid isn't isn't it? Lewis clearly does not get on with his new race engineer.

No idea why this silly team removes Lewis's engineer he's worked with for the past seasons and gives him a rookie race engineer.

This team frustrates me so much.

I blame Whitmarsh for everything.

at least hamilton has gained on the championship lead from this, only 19 points behind as opposed to 21

Thankfully there is nowhere for Lewis to go. He is too classy to go to a **** team like Red Bull and Alonso probably has a no-Lewis clause in his contract. Merc is a huge ?? because that team has been average for its entire existence bar last year.

Lewis is looking for work.

Why is it that just because people hear a hot headed response from Lewis, it means they think he's going to leave the team?

You do realise that comms that we DON'T hear consists of a lot of swearing and bickering, right?

What we hear on the radio has NO BEARING on the relationship between a driver and the team.

The sport isn't as mickey mouse as people think it is, or the way it is presented to be.

Which he isn't as he's under contract.

the realist in me says that this was the worst circuit for the McLaren and for that a 5th place is ok. Too bad about the mistake with Jenson´s car. But we win as a team and we lose as a team. Everybody makes mistakes. Better in a race where he could have been 6th in best case, than at a race he could have won.

Guys calm down,give the 25 some time its a good car,faster than the Ferrari but just not here in Monaco.We can be on top in Turkey again.After Turkey its Montreal where Hamilton is a bit of a specialist

He was also supposed to be a specialist at Monaco. Unless the car magically gets good traction Montreal will be the same as this weekend.

He was also supposed to be a specialist at Monaco. Unless the car magically gets good traction Montreal will be the same as this weekend.

Im just wondering what Alonso's response would be if Ferrari did ever want to get Lewis onboard somewhere down the line.

I call for Martin Whitmarsh's resignation!! He's destroying McLaren. I would like to know who is this dumb mechanic who left that blanket lying around in the ventilator duct. He surely deserves to be punished. I see McLaren entering a major declining phase, just like the one they had after Honda pulled out at the end of 1992. No more Merc money & the mp4-12c will not hit the markets until the summer of 2012.

McLaren don't seem to care much for their fans either. Honestly I think McLaren have lost touch with reality. They don't have the desire to win multiple titles. Their last WCC was way back in 1998 & that was a one off. Other wise you would have to go back to Senna's time in 1991. They boast of having the best tech facilities,engineers, 2 recent WDC's yet they manage mega-cockups.

Pat Fry has left the team. Maybe he knows something we don't. This team is being run very very inefficiently by a BAE expatriate. Whitmarsh will do well to note that the sole money for F1 development is coming from major sponsors like Vodafone.

ATM_ANDY WE FANS DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!

Schumachers move was ILLEGAL

Hamiltons' engineer told him correctly.... Bad weekend for Mac, on the whole, although not too bad for Lewis.

J

I think McLaren can say WDC and WCC chances goodbye after this race. They did a real sloppy job with Button today, and car simply isn't fast on this kind of track so 5th was maximum Hamilton could get today.

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I think McLaren can say WDC and WCC chances goodbye after this race. They did a real sloppy job with Button today, and car simply isn't fast on this kind of track so 5th was maximum Hamilton could get today. Lets not forget that Mercedes + Alonso were probably faster in ideal conditions. So, sad thing is - 5th is a really good (and a bit lucky) result for Lewis today.

Montreal will be alot different, some very long straights and fast corners but Mclaren should go alot better there.

Braking will be an issue

during the radio communication what did hamilton say?. commentators were talking and didn't catch it. was he angry with the team?

Too early to say that. Redbull failed to capitalise on their dominance in the flyaway races. They are the favourites but its still game on.... especially if the next set of upgrades are effective.

Well the jury is still out on that one. Hamilton has been sold a dummy by Prew before now - Australia 2009, Silverstone 2009 when he was told to leave the strategy to the team when had they listened to him I believe he would have jumped the Heidfeld/Alonso/Kubica train, and here he could have either mugged Felipe for some bonus points or potentially could have been ass ripped by both MS and FA had he been cruising to the line. This is stuff Prew should know.

Assuming Brawn read things correctly, of course. If they didn't then I fully retract both the above paragraph and the sentence below.

If Brawn did then McLaren and Ferrari are becoming the dumb and dumber of F1, and I'm not entirely sure which is which.

Good points on the earlier tensions between Lewis and his former race engineer - and that worked out pretty well anyway, most of the time!

Regarding dumb and dumber: to be fair, the FIA rules are very convoluted as usual. The problem is, when is a race considered to have finished under SC? What if the SC is expressly called in on the very last lap? I think Brawn is right but it is confusing enough!

Why? What's wrong with Red Bull? They have Adrian Newey over there, who you can be rest assured will come up with extremely competitive cars for the next few years. And lest not forget Newey's enjoying his work at Red Bull, unlike at McLaren where he was treated like an area-51 scientist.

Thankfully there is nowhere for Lewis to go. He is too classy to go to a **** team like Red Bull and Alonso probably has a no-Lewis clause in his contract. Merc is a huge ?? because that team has been average for its entire existence bar last year.

Its the first time we've heard about Mclaren having any problems with brakes this year.

As far as I'm concerned, it was a one-off thing, and it definitely wasn't even as bad as Vettel's in Barcelona(where there's less braking).

If this problem keeps popping up, then get worried.

I think Montreal should suit them well, but I think if Red Bull have their f-duct fucntioning by Montreal, it might not be all peaches, as Mclaren's straight-line advantage will be negated.

I still like to believe Monaco suited the Renault engine over the Mercedes one, and didn't particularly suit McLaren in general, whether because of the wheelbase or not. In Turkey I expect Red Bull to be dominating again (not that they didn't in Monaco, but I think they will have a larger advantage even, like Spain), but hopefully McLaren will the 2nd strongest again. Red Bull is going to walk away with the title if they can keep current results up while Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Renault are falling over each other.