Originally Posted by Justabloke:
“pitlane to podium is a hell of a drive and that's what people should be concentrating on.. forget all the other bollocks because that's all it is... bollocks
lastly, anyone who truly believes that Mercedes are deliberately sabotaging Lewis are clearly mentalists. Lewis runs closer to the edge than Nico, he's bound to fall off it occasionally , its how he recovers, that's what's important.”
More rambling based on the above...
I think there's an interesting divergence in the team developing there, as a result of the driver's differing styles.
If we take Hamilton on his best day as "100%" then Rosberg gets given a race strategy, goes out and drives at "80%" in every situation, without any dramas, holds to the strategy and comes away with a haul of points befitting his drive.
Hamilton, in contrast, is more likely to be driving at "100%" (unless, of course, he's half a minute in the lead or summat) and, as you say, that's when there's less margin for error and mistakes happen and then, because of this, the team need to be able to revise the strategy on the fly and if they don't make a good job of any recalculations, Hamilton doesn't get the best result
and he feels like the team has let him down.
How many times, this year, have we either heard Lewis moaning that the team have made poor decisions or, alternatively, seen Hamilton making a decision by himself which turned out to be a bad idea?
I kinda wonder if, perhaps, Merc' are used to the Rosberg mentality, where the driver just goes out and follows the strategy exactly, and they're struggling a bit to adapt to a driver who needs more dynamic strategy calls?
Also, related to that, I get the impression that Lewis has probably made a few bad calls himself, probably because he's been wondering if the team are going to suggest something and then, when they don't, he insists on doing that thing simply 'cos he thinks it's something they haven't considered.