Head To Head Nico Rosberg vs Lewis Hamilton

[KekeTheKing]

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.....

Anyway I doubt this will carry any weight for those with an axe to grind.

 

[Slyboogy]

further more i have to say,nico had 2 great opportunitys to get that 3rd place,with those 2 overtakes.unfortunatly for him he couldnt make them stick,eventhough he was faster at the time.maybe brawn was worried,if they keep on battling each other for 3rd place they might crash into eachother.

Kind of hard to make them stick when you are racing the same car with a DRS zone coming up straight away when you've just passed him.

He would have had plenty of more chances after, I think it was the Red Bull fight which scared the big bear (Ross Brawn) off.

 

[KekeTheKing]

Kind of hard to make them stick when you are racing the same car with a DRS zone coming up straight away when you've just passed him.

I'm glad we've moved past the "they didn't get to race" line of thinking and we're now blaming the "same car" and DRS for Nico's inability to get by Lewis.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

What occurred to me the first time Rosberg passed Hamilton into the hairpin only to be re-passed into turn 1, was 'Why did you not wait until the final bend, get a good slipstream down the back straight then get in front with the DRS on the main straight, pass into turn 1 and have a whole lap to consolidate your position rather than giving him a chance to come straight back? Simples.'

Then he went and did it again!

 

[KekeTheKing]

Once again those pesky facts rear their ugly head.....

But yeah, Nico wasn't allowed to race complete and utter pap .

 

[Vortex]

Did anyone say he wasn’t allowed to race for the whole race? Or did people say he wasn’t allowed to race after he’d been told?

 

[Vortex]

But yeah, whilst Rosberg was allowed to race his error was doing it in the first DRS zone allowing Hamilton to take it straight back in the second. Then he was told to stop.

 

[KekeTheKing]

The point is that Nico had several opportunities to get ahead. Which would have made the fuel situation moot.

 

[downforce]

I thought this level of "Hamilton Vs ....." debate was reserved for his world champion teammates.

I hadn't really expected it to continue with the same level of intensity as that of Alonso and Button.

Probably quite naive of me really lol.

 

[KekeTheKing]

Well when races like Malaysia happen, you know there's gonna be a bit of a kerfuffle.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

I don't read it the same way. Views are much less polarised. Recent debate seems more to do with team ethics than anything else. Any heated debate seems to be fueled by fans of Lewis' old WDC teammates still bearing a grudge. Of course, I may be reading that wrongly, but it is what I see as apparent.

 

[teabagyokel]

I think Hamilton deserves a bit of praise here. If he was telling the truth about thinking Rosberg should have made the podium, that is commendable humility. If he was lying, that is commendable diplomacy. I've talked about Vettel maybe losing a team-mate; I think Hamilton's post race reaction contributed to that situation being more unlikely at Mercedes.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Certainly no one was having pop at Lewis that's for sure....

Edit

I said "for sure.."

 

[racecub]

Apparently in the last stages Lewis asked Ross if he could let Rosberg past and was told, "absolutely not,when I tell you what I want you to do you have to stick by it"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mo...s-from-team-orders-as-Niko-Rosberg-fumes.html

 

[ExtremeNinja]

What an ugly article, and they can't even spell Nico's name right in the title. I'm afraid I'm going to have to dismiss that article on the grounds of bad journalism and unecessary sensationalism.

 

[RasputinLives]

Did he fend off a charging Jenson Button in 4th? I must have missed that bit as well.

 

[racecub]

The worst articles Ive ever read (not this weekend) are ones by some woman who writes for the guardian, I can't remember her name but occasionally a link is tweeted and I read it, and get angry and wished I hadn't read it

 

[F1ang-o]

http://www.espn.co.uk/mercedes/motorsport/story/104315.html
Lewis re iterares that he did not/does not want No1 status

 

[The Artist.....]

What I notice is that Mercedes are criticised for ordering Rosberg to hold position whilst red bull (or at least Vettel) is criticised for ignoring an identical instruction!

The inescapable conclusion is that people don't like team orders... (Well d'uh!).... I have long suggested that all radio transmissions should be banned between the car and the pits- so there should be no telemetry, and no radios... Therefore, no team orders beyond what can appear on pit boards!

 

[The Artist.....]

http://www.espn.co.uk/mercedes/motorsport/story/104315.html
Lewis re iterares that he did not/does not want No1 status

And oddly enough, helmut marko claims red bull don't have a number one and number two either.... All that we can conclude is that somewhere along the way, someone is talking number twos.