Originally Posted by BinaryDad:
“Food for thought:
Over the last 6 races, both LH & NR have scored 98 points each. That's despite Nico starting 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 on the grid and Lewis starting 9, 6, 20, 22, 2, 1 on the grid.”
Uhuh,
As somebody said a while back, maybe Hamilton should just take Saturdays off cos it doesn't seem to make much difference to his races?
More seriously, I dunno if it's just that he hasn't had the opportunity to do things the "simple" way but it sometimes seems like Hamilton could do with "going back to basics" a bit, in quali' especially; go out, get a "banker" in, get yourself a decent grid position and
then go bonkers trying to beat Rosberg.
If there's not already, Lewis needs somebody to tell him that as long as he makes it through the first corner and he's
somewhere in the first half-dozen cars, he's got a bloody good chance of winning the race so he needs to dial-down the "shit or bust" mentality a bit and have more faith in the fact that he IS a better racing-driver than the guy he's trying to beat.
Originally Posted by Assa2:
“Singapore should be far less forgiving of any mistakes or unreliability and Lewis has shown he is more prone to both for what ever reason. A bad start like Monza would be a killer in Singapore. If Rosberg gets into the first corner ahead of Hamilton I would say the chances of an 'incident' between the two would be very high.”
Yep, if Lewis is in "death or glory" mode, he'll quickly damage the car and/or tyres in Singapore.
Course, if we get a repeat of the situation in Monza, Rosberg could easily find himself in a wall while attempting to match Hamilton's pace too.
*EDIT*
While I'm at it, I think, perhaps, team Hamilton may have (hopefully) learned something useful at Monza.
It's apparent that when the tyres are past their best
all the drivers simply do their best to drag the car home.
This would seem to suggest that the whole "save it for the last few laps" thing isn't really a smart strategy because you just haven't got the car underneath you at that stage, even if you
are in slightly better shape than the other guy.
Hamilton is almost certainly a better driver than Rosberg when the car is properly underneath him so hopefully his crew will start to engineer race-strategies that put Hamilton close to Rosberg (assuming he's behind) after pitstops and allow him to push for the overtake while his tyres are new and he can make the best of the car.