Dennis expects Hamilton to bounce back
McLaren chief Ron Dennis says he does not expect Lewis Hamilton to wallow in his failure at the Bahrain Grand Prix last Sunday and insists the Briton will bounce back in style. Hamilton endured a miserable weekend after crashing his car during practice before suffering a nightmare start to the race in which he nearly stalled.
The 23-year-old cut a dejected figure after coming home 13th in Sakhir, the result of a collision with arch-rival Fernando Alonso, but Dennis does not expect the events of the weeknd to leave a lasting impression on his number one driver.
"If you're a competitive person, you're hard on yourself," Dennis told autosport.com. "I've said many times that I don't think I'm the exception to the rule in this team: we're not great losers.
"We're fighters and when you don't think you've done a particularly good job, you go away and all you want is for the next race to come because you know that if nothing else changes, you're going to be more competitive.
"It's the nature of this sport. It's so full of ups and downs. The emotional rollercoaster of Grands Prix has never been any different
"What happens is you rationalise everything for a couple of days, go through a mental dip and then you come back," he explained. "The only thing you look at as you go into the weekends is the points standings, and they're all so close it's almost immaterial at this stage.
"When it's so close, you don't start suddenly panicking. You concentrate on starting the weekend and working though it and doing a really good job."
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Posted by jamesmcb – 9 Apr 2008, 12:15 PM
The McLaren cars seem off the pace, they just didn't look competitive in Bahrain, i hope this is not a a repercussion of them not being allowed to add any developments as part of the punishment handed down by the General (Max Mosely to the lay man).