Originally Posted by shhftw:
“I think LH needs to be a bit bigger here and accept his second place gracefully, no matter how much he feels he has been denied the opportunity to win.
It's true I think the strategy calls are not benefitting him in recent races. That's an observation and the rest is just latent frustration. The same can be said of Sebastian Vettel and he has ultimately learned to control his tongue today. I think demons could rise for LH if he doesn't change his mindset quickly.
I was applauding him for just coming straight out and saying he overslept on Thursday. I understood it was just the heat of the moment on Saturday, but today after the race he really should have been a bit bigger. It proves his supreme confidence is a bluff, and he had me fooled.”
See, I think the problem is just that when Hamilton "vents" he's always jumped on for whining.
Guys like, say, Raikkonen, Alonso and Vettel have all had their moments. In fact, pretty much every time one of Kimi's radio messages is broadcast it's cos he's getting shouty about something or other but, for some reason, when Lewis does the same thing it's considered to be "whining".
As I already said, I dunno if Rosberg genuinely is pretty-much silent on the radio or whether his messages just rarely get broadcast but I guess, if Hamilton wants to shake off his "whiney" reputation, he needs to learn to keep his mouth shut, like his team-mate.
Course, OTOH, I'm not sure many people really put a lot of stock in radio comm's made during the heat of a race.
Personally, one of the things I kinda like about Lewis is the way he says exactly what he's thinking
at the time even though it does sometimes give people ammunition to use against him.