Originally Posted by Si_Crewe:
“Not sure I'd call it "cracking up".
It's more like that the team and car are fundamentally so good that he's not really paying any attention to them and so, instead, he's spending his time worrying about a heap of pointless, peripheral, stuff instead.
In this case I'd bet he was thinking this was going to be "payback" for what he considered to be a bit of slipperiness in Monaco rather than just putting his mind to getting around the track as quickly as possible.
He obviously thought that staying just in front of Rosberg for 2 sectors was enough to ruin Rosberg's lap and dived into the pits, making himself look like a complete tool.
Just watched his interview and, TBH, the last time I saw him like that was when he was caught fibbing about yellow flags.
He really just doesn't do slippery and he should stop bloody-well trying it.”
I agree...he's trying too hard to be smart and play psychological games, and it isn't working. He should be doing his talking on track. You get the impression he just isn't focused at all, whereas Rosberg has committed himself 100% to the task at hand.
It's only been these past couple of weeks that I've started to take a strong dislike to Lewis Hamilton. There always seems to be a big drama around him, whether it be his private life, his little tiff with Rosberg at Monaco, overdoing it in Austria, messing up today, the brake problems in Canada, the way he conducts himself in interviews, trying to play mind games which he simply is no good at. He should just go back to basics, strip things right back and focus. Go back to doing things on instinct instead of overthinking everything.
I read an article the other day that his dad should come back as his manager. Lewis could do a lot worse than bring his father, because he needs someone like that. Although that's unlikely to happen.