Wolff may kick one of it's drivers out if they don't kiss and make up:

Did you not see his highlights? (In his hair). Someone that entrenched in 80's haircuts has to be on something hahahahahahaha

 

Perhaps Hamilton has had too many distractions in the last few races! (From: Hamilton 'wished season was over' after title win · F1 Fanatic ):

However Hamilton revealed he has been working on his music projects into the small hours during race weekends.

“It’s coming along slowly,” Hamilton said about his music. “I worked on it a lot this year, I have a lot of music stuff that’s actually ready. Someone’s going to hear something soon.”

“I have a team of people, my music people travel around with me so on the race weekends we finish at the track like six, seven pm, I go straight to the hotel and I’ll be in my room writing and recording. We put beds up and that’s where we do it. We record until 1am in the morning, then I get up and I’ll be driving the next day. It’s crazy.”

I'd have to say it's lucky for Hamilton that the Mercedes was so dominant this season they got the WDC and WCC's wrapped up so easily.

Had they struggled to win them (or even failed to win one or both), then his Mercedes bosses would have been pretty p:censored:d off with the fact that he's up all night fannying about pretending to be a rap star when he should be concentrating on his race weekend!

 

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Hamilton: a ‘disruptive element’ At Mercedes AMG F1


Hamilton: a ?disruptive element? At Mercedes AMG F1 | thejudge13


Its award season in the UK for sports folk; and just like for the Oscars, a number in their ranks now begin the rounds of PR and media events to advance their cause with the British voters for the honour of winning ‘The Sport’s Personality of the Year’. For those outside the UK, in actuality, personality is low in the voters’ criteria given that Andy Murray has won this title on a previous occasion.

Having wrapped up the season on track, Lewis Hamilton has returned to the country of his birth and has already given interviews on radio and television. However, Hamilton’s media glory parade following the season’s close has been some what hijacked by comments from Lewis’ team boss following the Abu Dhabi GP. Toto Wolff revealed that the relationship between Hamilton and Rosberg is the weakest link in the Mercedes AMG F1 team.

The Austrian went as far as to suggest that either Rosberg or Hamilton would have to go unless things improved. “We struggle sometimes in winning races on Sunday and having always one [driver] upset,” said Wolff. “And this spills over into the team. It is something that needs to stop. If we feel that it is not aligned with the general consensus, spirit and philosophy within the team, we might consider that when we take a decision, in terms of the driver line-up going forward.”
The British Formula One press believe Wolff’s comments though couched in the plural, are in fact solely directed at Hamilton. Kevin Eason for The Times writes, “Despite Hamilton’s pre-eminent position as the three-time world champion – winning the past two titles with Mercedes – he is not seen as a team player in a squad governed by the team ethic.
“His complaining over the past three races won by Rosberg is said to have grated on senior Mercedes executives and even irritated the engineers close to Hamilton”.

Similar tales were told of Lewis during the later days of his time at McLaren.

Eason went on to accuse Hamilton of being “a disruptive element”, as demonstrated in the 2015 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, “when he queried his team’s strategy and had to be instructed forcefully to carry out changes to his engine management system”. A number of other British newspapers pick up the same theme and The Telegraph report Wolff’s comments as ‘a rebuke to Hamilton’.
Surprisingly, Martin Brundle who is known to admire Hamilton much described his behaviour during 2016 as, “often churlish,” adding, “especially his petulant refusal to follow his engineer’s instructions”.

Much has been made this year of the Hamilton lifestyle change and the new friends he has embraced since splitting with his fiancé. Brundle believes this may prove to be Hamilton’s downfall: “The real Lewis Hamilton I’ve known for very many years is a thoughtful, entertaining and engaging person, and I don’t get the loner stance. I also think the kid from Stevenage is faster than the rapper from LA, and that a confident and diligent Rosberg can now beat mid-Atlantic man. He’s upped his game.”
Lewis looked to deflect the talk when he told BBC’s Radio 1, “You have seen [Rosberg] complains about a lot of things but you let it go over your head because that’s the way he is.” Hamilton also defended his ‘party’ lifestyle explaining, “To be honest, this is the first year that I’ve ever really done it. And you know what, I’d be partying, I’d turn up, and I’d win the race’. Living life is something Lewis feels is important too as he reveals, “I took the dangerous sport clause out of my contract and I try to do it with a nice balance,” he told BBC Radio. “I don’t want to go through my whole Formula 1 career only driving, but of course I don’t want to be sitting watching someone else drive my car. So I am very, very cautious when I do that, but I am crazy.”

On the matter of tension within the team, Lewis takes on Wolff – suggesting the team boss doesn’t understand the dynamic created by having to compete for two different titles. “It is kind of crazy and they shouldn’t really call us team mates as such. The problem is there are two championships, [while] in football there is one championship.
“For us [Mercedes] there is the constructors’ championship and that is what they hire us and pay us to do, but individually we want to win the championship. So it is difficult.
“But this side [of team mate tension] is always blown out of proportion. We have had 16 1-2s, so our relationship isn’t really causing any problems.
“It is not like he [Rosberg] has been distracted and not finished high up or vice versa, so I think ultimately it is easy for people to take things for granted. We have both done a great job”.

Despite claiming his third F1 drivers’ title, Lewis Hamilton will have a tough time winning this years ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ award, given the performances of other British sportsmen and women. These include the recent shocking result which saw Tyson Fury beat Vladimir Klitschko and Andy Murray is the bookies current favourite at 8/11 – after being credited with winning GB’s first Davies Cup final since 1936.
Hamilton is 5th favourite for SPOTY at 16/1 behind Murray, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Kevin Sinfield and Tyson Fury. However, the thought of Lewis merely sitting through the awards ceremony watching others receive their accolades is likely to unleash the might of the Hamfosi, as they marshal their voting troops. Then, anything is possible.

 

People are fickle, aren't they?

 

...they even have a name
I wonder what they say, should he indeed fall apart next season. AMuS reported that Ham went to some length irritating his team with weird requests for setup changes in the last two GPs, as he couldn't figure a way to match Rosy.

If he continues having 12 parallel lifes besides being a race driver his career will be over sooner than he expected and despite 3 titles he might just go down as a wasted talent. I wouldn't be surprised...

 

I presume than Hamilton has obtained from motorsport more than he ever expected to do, and now he is relaxing a bit, somehow.

Like many, he must have realised that there is more to life than work to fuel an obsession. Some people wish to enjoy life in a different way, once they have achieved their goal, and the fame and wealth they have acquire allow them to do that.

If that's the case, I cannot say I blame him. Life is too short to do just one thing, and it's good to take time to explore different venues. I would not be surprised if Hamilton were to retire from motor racing within a few years.

 

That just about sums it up...I think you've hit the proverbial nail on the head.

 

Mercedes are ‘torn’ on reconciling the perceived ‘baggage of Lewis Hamilton’s off-track behaviour with his peerless driving on it, according to a report in The Times.

The newspaper quotes an unnamed team principal explaining:

“Lewis is a complicated mix of self-confidence and insecurity. He has this incredible focus, so that whatever he is doing outside, he can turn up, get in the car and do his job.

“But he drives for a team that is torn now between what he does on the track and what he does off it. There is a Teutonic streak of correctness at the highest levels in Mercedes and they don’t like what they are seeing at the moment. One senior executive told me no one is irreplaceable – and that includes Lewis.”

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Mercedes has a culture and a reputation to uphold.
What we see at the end of GP where its two drivers finish 1-2 doesn't fit with that.
Hamilton and Rosberg don't celebrate the team success, they don't congratulate each other, they don't look like team mates.
Instead, they sulk and blame each other to anyone who wants to hear it.
That doesn't reflect very well on Mercedes.

 

+1 and does not make for something worth watching about the podium either. Its simply not what fans should be exposed to.

 

You guys are going to get ripped again by the PC crowd. What do senior people at Mercedes know, anyway? <sarcasm>

 

If hamilton wins in 2016, and thats a sizable if based on his performance in the last few races i can see him leaving for ferrari or going back to mclaren.

Merc would be stupid to dump the most noticeable driver in the world regardless of what he does off the track (felonies excluded). He wins on the track and is very marketable

 

why?

 

Nice prediction on my part

 

No one's going anywhere.

Nico has been winning lately, so he's going nowhere.

Lewis won the championship, so he's going nowhere.

Niki enjoys the $1.9M annual advertising fee from his hat, so he's going nowhere.

Toto enjoys running the top team, so he's going nowhere.

Everything's peachy keen at Mercedes.

 

Would love to see Lewis versus Vettel at Ferrari in 2017. That would be something.

 

Based on current performance and likely future performance, firstly that will not happen as Ferari won't take Hamilton because he will be a faded force and his pay demands would be outrageous. Secondly, if it did happen, my money would be on Vettel as he is a far superior driver based on his performance this year and his temperament.

 

Villeneuve slams Hamilton for late-season behaviour - F1Today.net - Formula 1 news

 

that was easy..this nail has a very big head!!!

 

Ferrari for the glory of winning win them and winning the championship with three different teams. Mclaren because it's his home team