Head To Head Nico Rosberg vs Lewis Hamilton
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Jos the Boss
Champion Elect
If I was Nico and I won on double points, at no point would I care if I deserved it, I'd be a World Champion!
You don't win a Championship over a race, the other 18 races are just as important to get you in a position to have a shot of benefiting from double points
You don't win a Championship over a race, the other 18 races are just as important to get you in a position to have a shot of benefiting from double points
Kewee
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Jos the Boss ...... It's a shame he hasn't done better then. Yes there are the other 18 races but he's only won four to Lewis's nine. The strength of his second position has come his nine 2nd's and of course Lewis's three retirements, One more than Rosberg has suffered which penalised Lewis 25 points after race one. Lewis is the driver that deserves this Championship no matter how you measure it and as the only season that's had double points it would become the year everyone would forget very quickly which would be very sad for F1, especially for Hamilton after the stunning drives he's put in, some of them have been career shaping.
Kewee
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I don't think there's to much wrong with Mercedes reliability. Four teams, eight cars 16 GP's equates to 128 GP starts for Mercedes powered cars with 14 retirements, not all of those are due to engine failure. Thats not bad reliability, considering the newness of the technology.
Less than an 11% failure rate.
Either the internet is down or as its Saturday evening everyone has nipped out for a pint, I'm shocked there hasn't been two pages of speculation about who wrecked Hamilton's brakes.
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Well one thing has been decided this season already and that is Nico takes the pole position trophy, congrats to him I wouldn't have put money on that at the beginning of the season but still 1-0 to Nico..
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Rosberg had brake issues in FP3 which left him 9 tenths behind Hamilton and then there was a role reversal in qualifying which left Hamilton behind Rosberg (and may continue to cause issues in the race). Nico absolutely nailed every lap though.
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olegg
Race Winner
And I mean the same.
Or may be one attempt of Hamilton in the Q2 was on the medium tires?
No they were soft which as far as I know are flat spotted but they may be able to buff that out or if they can prove that the tyres are dangerous he may be allowed to use a different set of the same compound if he has any..
Hamilton wasted a set of softs in Q1. It simply wasn't necessary and I don't understand why he did it. Maybe his manager told him to go out on them, oh, hold on....
After Maldonado turned up in P4 on soft tyres in Q1 everyone was potentially at risk. Rosberg went back out too, although he ultimately didn't need to complete a flying lap.
Yep, Race pace is what matters and he's got it. It always looks to me that Rosberg looks more comfortable in second when he's got someone in front to measure himself against. Bizarre isn't it?
Rosberg had a couple of tank slappers early on.
Rosberg had a couple of tank slappers early on.
Despite the trend of the season I really wasn't expecting Lewis to win today after seeing their relative performances yesterday. He's completely destroyed his reputation of being heavy on tyres and fuel and not being as intelligent as Rosberg.
My main competition in karting is this way. When he's in front of me, he makes plenty of mistakes but once I pass him, he's quicker and more consistent.
I seem to recall a time when people were saying that all that mattered was one lap pace and race craft and pace was just a load of bollocks, I wonder when that was...
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