The 2009 Italian Grand Prix Thread

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Driver of the day ?

Rubens Barrichello
12
35%
Jenson Button
3
9%
Kimi Raikkonen
8
24%
Adrian Sutil
7
21%
Fernando Alonso
2
6%
Heikki Kovalainen
1
3%
Nick Heidfeld
0
No votes
Sebastian Vettel
1
3%
 
Total votes: 34

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Post by JayVee » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:48 am

Jenson is not Michael. Jenson seems to be fragile and all signs are that he will have a few more stuff ups before the end of the season and if Rubens isn't asleep then he will win the championship.
On team orders, thinking about it more, I think Brawn is in a comfortable position. He knows one of his drivers will win it so he doesn't have to continue to favour Button as he did earlier this season and from what I've read, all isn't well between Button and Brawn on the contractual side so pressure from Barrichello goes very well.

I have no doubt that the ridiculous team orders at Ferrari to favour Michael were orchestrated by Todt and Brawn

Personally I would like to see Rubens win. It has been a crazy year!!
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Post by Snowy » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:30 pm

JayVee wrote:Jenson is not Michael. Jenson seems to be fragile and all signs are that he will have a few more stuff ups before the end of the season and if Rubens isn't asleep then he will win the championship.
All drivers have peeks and troughs throughout a season and Michael was no different from any other driver challenging for a championship. Except that he always had total number one status through the entire season... his entire career in fact. Jenson's perceived fraility is far more car related than psychological, coming to terms with a car that very suddenly becomes recalcitrant and off the pace. Jenson's form at Monza and his ability to resist the very tenatious drive by Lewis shows that he is in quite good form mentally, don't you think?
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Post by Julian Mayo » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:16 pm

imho, JB is a very quick, brave, n smooth driver, who is kind to his machinery. His chink, again imho, is that he is not good at quickly adapting to problems arising with the machine, during the course of a race.
He seems to have trouble "driving around" problems that arise, possibly because that would compromise his desire to be smooth at all times.
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Post by F1greyhound » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:51 am

Agree with Julian on that one. JENSONs only flaw is this limited ability to press out the max. from a less than optimal car for his style.

Taking the car is going alright now I have no doubt he will beat RUBENS.

This No.1 status of MICHAEL is over stressed. He was simply quicker than his team mates. At least none of them had to crash into the pitwall for him to win.... :wink:
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Post by JayVee » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:58 am

I agree that Jenson is smooth but he lacks consistency. Not as much as Rubens in the past but over the last few races it seems to me that Rubens has found something extra while Jenson is losing confidence. I think I said earlier that just like last year those two will try their best to give the championship away.

As for Michael, I think he crashed into a few to win or try to win championships and that says it all about him.

And isn't it a smarter way to get others to do the dirty work for you rather than stall your car in the middle of the track and look like a novice :wink:
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Post by GhoGho » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:23 pm

JayVee wrote: And isn't it a smarter way to get others to do the dirty work for you rather than stall your car in the middle of the track and look like a novice :wink:
At least that way you can maintain your squeaky clean image :wink:

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