Head To Head Nico Rosberg vs Lewis Hamilton

[racecub]

Lewywo4 that's right, he's more comfortable in the car and he'll have had input into it. Add to that the nature of this season cars, looser back end, something Lewis deals well with, and the fact you can go racing rather than go slow. It all adds up to a lot of pluses for Lewis this year. The tyres appear to be much more fit for purpose this year and the Merc has lost its appetite for eating them. Lewis suffered more than Nico at Spain last year with the tyre chewing, shouldn't be an issue this year.

 

[Slyboogy]

The fact is, Hamilton's already got the upper hand on Rosberg since he won at Bahrain, the race where Rosberg should have won to show that he's a championship contender.

Instead, he faltered several times, with the start, and then with out braking himself several times. He's not been close to Hamilton since, hence some negativity over the title battle.

 

[Mezzer]

I suggest there's several races yet before Hamilton clearly has the upper hand. All it needs is a couple of DNFs for whatever reason and it's all up in the air again.

 

[P1]

I suggest there's several races yet before Hamilton clearly has the upper hand. All it needs is a couple of DNFs for whatever reason and it's all up in the air again.

Yes the faulty points system with 4 races to offset a DNF.

 

[Lewywo4]

Entertaining and nerve wracking qualy session between Lewis and Nico today, and Nico really kept me on the edge of my chair, especially during Q3. A good shootout and result for Lewis, especially since that it occurred in the dry

 

[Brogan]

Yes the faulty points system with 4 races to offset a DNF.

As opposed to the previous system of 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 which took five wins to offset a DNF, six to surpass it.

 

[Mephistopheles]

This nonsense about the points system is very tiresome...

 

[Il_leone]

We're not having the 'Whitmarsh is evil' argument again are we?

Boring!

Someone a bit bitter and what the facts show what happened in 2011

 

[Il_leone]

remember the double points system for the last race where Lewis could build a big lead and it could hinge on the last race still

 

[RasputinLives]

Someone a bit bitter and what the facts show what happened in 2011

No. Its just boring.

 

[Il_leone]

RasputinLives Boring and pathetic about any so called Martin Whitmarsh's conspiracies - I guess that includes telling him to go and win back Nicole and picking SImon Fuller as his manager so he can be messed up or deliberately crash into Massa

 

[Mephistopheles]

I don't remember him deliberately crashing into Massa...

 

[Greenlantern101]

When was Whitmarsh a driver. Did I miss that. Who am I. What's going on.

 

[Mephistopheles]

 

[RasputinLives]

Yes. Thats all very boring.

(Equally confused)

 

[Greenlantern101]

Whitmarsh driving a F1 car would be boring..............nope.

 

[RasputinLives]

Whats going on?

Am I still on the Nico vs Lewis thread?

 

[racecub]

That's what I thought RasputinLives thought I was on the wrong topic.
I've not seen quali yet as I'm away this weekend ( bad bad planning! ) but it sounds like Nico was a little upset/rattled?(insert favoured word) at being pipped by Lewis.

 

[Hamberg]

He was disappointed given he'd led the last three sessions. He was hardly going to be ecstatic was he.

"Upset/rattled"

 

[FB]

In the post race interview Hammy said he didn't get a clear lap until the last one in Q3. Rosberg looked like someone had just served him a shit sandwich in the photo's for the top 3 and at the press conference but then if he'd looked happy at being beaten (again) by his teammate it would have been even more worrying.

The drag race to the first corner will probably decide the race. The way things are going at the moment I can't see Nico getting close to Lewis. Nico can go through Hamilton's telemetry as much as he likes but, as Damon Hill pointed out, it doesn't me he can replicate what Hamilton does.