Formula One ( F1 )

"on black Tarmac at dusk..."

So, there were are, done deal.

From this moment on I no longer support Mercedes, guess I've got to find a new team for next year (plastic>>>>>>>>>>>).

I like Kimi, so maybe Renault, and Button and Perez look a good lineup (not sure I can bring myself to support Mclaren after all those year).

Bad move from Hamilton.

He shall now be known as Judas Hamilton.

Mercedes are the Liverpool Football Club of Formula 1 - "2014 will be our year..."

It'll be interesting to see what happens next season.

Oh, and it's complete bollocks to say that he is a judas for choosing to move on from a company that nurtured him. What do you think F1 is, indentured labour?

Whether he has made the right choice for the right reasons we will find out next year, but Judas?

Get a grip.

Judas would have gained back a lot of the respect that his "fans" have lost for him had he remained with McLaren.

As far as I see, it's all about the money. He has enough of that to last him twenty frivolous lifetimes, so why sign for Mercedes? Believing your own hype is dangerous and will ultimately be his downfall.

Oh and next season won't be theirs - they're preparing for a big push in 2014...

Or alternatively, McLaren had already signed Perez for the Telmex money, and Hamilton had no choice but to go to Mercedes.

As long as Hamilton can still crash into Masa, that's all that matters.

Or alternatively, McLaren had already signed Perez for the Telmex money, and Hamilton had no choice but to go to Mercedes.

Or just pissed him off enough with bungled pit-stops and a fucked gearbox.

I want to see what Kobayashi and Perez could do beyond Sauber's development limitations.

Kob -> McLaren
Per -> Ferrari

Makes pretty good sense in commercial/marketing terms too.

I was half-right!

Can't believe it's happened... I feel sick.

You have to say McLaren can't keep their superstars... Senna, Prost, Alonso, Hamilton...

We don't know what happened behind closed doors at McLaren, there could well have been a fall out. I know he gets on very well with Rosberg. There seems to be a lot made of the fact Hamilton will have 'undisputed number one status in the team'. Difficult to see what difference that will make (take the example of this year, how many extra points would it have made, the car already suits Hamilton) and I'm surprised Rosberg is happy with that.

Mercedes had a decent car at the beginning of the year. The way it has worked out though, the RFA makes little difference and it has taken the team 2/3 of a season to develop an exhaust solution which most teams have had since the end of the first set of fly-aways.

Have a very bad feeling about this...

The ego has landed.

As far as I see, it's all about the money. He has enough of that to last him twenty frivolous lifetimes, so why sign for Mercedes?

Time will tell, but my feeling is that he wants to win and he really has been having a shite time this season, some of it his doing, some of it not.

Bring it on.

Any confirmed news on shumacher?

He's a seven time world champion?

Time will tell, but my feeling is that he wants to win and he really has been having a shite time this season, some of it his doing, some of it not.

All professional sports-people want to win, its kind of a pre-requisite for the job, right up there with talent. Yes Hamilton has had a shite time of it this season, but he is a big boy now and as a big boy he needs to learn to realise that shit happens and you have to deal with it, not throw strops and give away information to rivals.

I don't think it will matter how good a car Mercedes produce it will still be liable to failures, all F1 cars are, even the seemingly reliable ones, shit will go wrong Hamilton will throw a strop he will piss of his engineering team who will be less motivated to work with him. Unless he can radically overhaul his attitude he will never realise his potential, which I actually think is pretty sad as he has so much of it!

He will never change his attitude because as far as he's concerned he's not the problem. He carries on like he's the second fucking coming.

Perez is a good signing for McLaren.

Perez is a good signing for McLaren.

Agreed and also very interesting as he is a product of Rarri's driver academy so there is no way that he will be replacing Massa.

Judas to Mercedes is the same kind of deal that took Beckham to LA Galaxy.

It's almost entirely about the money.

I thought it would be Perez to Ferrari and Di Resta to McLaren.

I'm glad it's not, I like Perez

Perez is going to be awesome next year, just a shame he's not going to be awesome in a Ferrari.

Perez and Alonso would never work.

There would be toy throwing of biblical proportions.

Alonso, toy throwing? Never...

Whenever I go to Spain I struggle to explain my contempt for his character traits.

I so frigging hope he won't win the championship this year. He strikes me as the Luis Suarez of F1

The people of his home town think he's a right cunt.