F1 GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND: RACE ***SPOILERS***

Lewis seems to thrive on adversity and drama. Nico seems to avoid both.

One strategy seems to work better than the other.

 

Well yes, I wouldn't think he wants it that way though, roles reserved I maintain it would be a very boring championship battle, Ham would have had it near enough wrapped up and in the bag by now IMO.

 

Amazingly that hasn't occurred to Lewis yet.

 

It is true, I agree he always seems to do it the hard way, in one sense it keeps us watching and chatting, the Vettel and MS walk in the park wins, did not do it for me to be honest..

 

I'd have thought that you'd had enough drama lately.

 

LOL Yer right, the feeling is coming back to my nut now and it's not nice, imagine spiders crawling on your head and you cannot get them off..

 

Imagine?

 

Yes form a mental image or concept of

 

No need.
I've had spiders in my head for years.

 

hahahahaha ....you nutter...

 

You just noticed?

 

How'd that work out for you?

 

My perception is that Hamilton lacks the mental discipline that Rosberg has....that his emotions are just a little uncontrollable and interfere with his judgment too often. He performed brilliantly today but I think he sometimes expends mental energy in unproductive ways. In the war of getting inside each other's head, Rosberg is clearly winning at this point IMO.

 

Great race. Has me actually looking forward to the next race. Not something I have said in the last few years. Some are starting to compare the Hamilton/rosberg duels to senna/Prost.

 

Agreed.

Rosberg is like a steady flat line on a graph while Hamilton is like a sine curve - you get the highs and lows.

The championship is in Lewis' hands - he is slipping up and catching back due to mistakes/reliability etc. He is the faster driver by a small amount. If he doesn't eliminate the time wasting mind games and focus on his driving, he is going to gift Rosberg the championship

 

It has been a good season so far with quite a few interesting races.

IMO the Senna/Prost comparison is a bit overstated - these two are more like Senna/Prost in knickerbockers

 

Unfair assessment really. If rosberg had all the bad luck and frustration that hamilton has had he would be cracking for sure. He wad even cracking when hamilton beat him 4 in a row fair and square with no bad luck for either. Making comments like how he hates coming second to his team mate. Lewis hasn't made any comments like that despite basically every race having some adversity that wasn't his fault

 

Anybody got an overlay of segment times for hammy vs. rosberg? Rosberg says he is as fast hammy.

 

Rosberg was cruising most of the race.

 

Going no faster than needed to win.

 

+1. Lewis was clearly winning the psychological battle until the parked car at Monaco. Rosberg sounded far more frustrated during the 4 race winning streak for Hamilton.

 

DRS and too wide tracks makes the overtaking artificial.

 

Yes agree that the track run off areas are way too wide, but I actually watched the first so many laps of that race and thoroughly enjoyed watching LH and Ricciardo battle through the field.

Massa should retire, obviously cannot deal with the drama of the start anymore.
Pete