Nico Rosberg World Champion!

[AndyL]

What a bunch of rubbish. This is NOT my champion. If you agree with me, let's start organizing protests. It's time to smash some storefronts. The WDC scoring by points wasn't fair to Hamilton. If WDC was decided by a simple number of wins, the Hamilton would have been the champion because he won one whole race more than Rosberg.

Plus Felipe would have retired as a former World Champion

[Greasy]

1956
4 - Moss def.
1 - Hawthorn

1983
4 - Prost def.
3 - Piquet

1987
6 - Mansell def.
3 - Piquet

There's three titles you're willing to dispute.

Add Alan Jones in 1979, almost anybody in 1982, Andretti in 77, Clark in 67...

[jas123f1]

Yup, Mercedes managed to sabotage Hamilton enough to finally get their German World Champion throughout the course of the year.

But as I say, Rosberg was always good for a championship so am happy for him but it's sad for the sport that it happened that the best driver didn't win on this occasion.

No, if we do not look at the last four races, when Rosberg apparently not even tried to win then you can see that Rosberg actually won 8 times against Hamilton 6 .. He clearly is a worthy champion and that some of Hamilton fans have trouble to accept the final result is almost comical.

[Firstgear]

A superior work ethic can often overcome a bit of a deficit in natural talent.

Lewis, a couple of years ago you said you would claim Mercedes first title due to the hunger that you had, and Nico lacked because of his silver spoon upbringing. Well, after a couple of titles, you've lost that hunger. You thought you could hang with Justin Bieber during the week and win races on the weekend. After a number of poor starts, you finally realized that you'd have to put in a little more work - but you figured it out 5 points too late. I was hoping you'd pull it off, as I find you the more talented, exciting racer. I hope you give it 100% next year.

This year, work ethic has trumped talent.
Congrats Nico! Your superior commitment and dedication have paid off.

[keysersoze]

Certainly Nico is a talented driver and his championship should not be tainted.

But he is dirty--far dirtier than Lewis. His history before this season bears this out, but his behavior in Spain and Austria this year show the depths to which he will go to fight back against a driver who is clearly faster. People cast aspersions at Lewis for his driving at Abu Dhabi, but in my view it pales in comparison to Rosberg's tactics.

[henners88]

A superior work ethic can often overcome a bit of a deficit in natural talent.

Lewis, a couple of years ago you said you would claim Mercedes first title due to the hunger that you had, and Nico lacked because of his silver spoon upbringing. Well, after a couple of titles, you've lost that hunger. You thought you could hang with Justin Bieber during the week and win races on the weekend. After a number of poor starts, you finally realized that you'd have to put in a little more work - but you figured it out 5 points too late. I was hoping you'd pull it off, as I find you the more talented, exciting racer. I hope you give it 100% next year.

This year, work ethic has trumped talent.
Congrats Nico! Your superior commitment and dedication have paid off.

That's a bizarre assessment I have to say? I haven't seen any evidence of Hamilton's on track performance being compromised this season? In fact I think he's driven his best and Nico couldn't catch him in the latter part of the season. The fact he had to slow down in the last race to fall back with Nico and was 0.5secs a lap faster in Brazil suggests he too would have been a worthy champion. I think over the course of the season he performed better.


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[Nitrodaze]

That's a bizarre assessment I have to say? I haven't seen any evidence of Hamilton's on track performance being compromised this season? In fact I think he's driven his best and Nico couldn't catch him in the latter part of the season. The fact he had to slow down in the last race to fall back with Nico and was 0.5secs a lap faster in Brazil suggests he too would have been a worthy champion. I think over the course of the season he performed better.


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I am surprised you bothered to respond this bs really. The chap has no idea.

[Firstgear]

That's a bizarre assessment I have to say? I haven't seen any evidence of Hamilton's on track performance being compromised this season? In fact I think he's driven his best and Nico couldn't catch him in the latter part of the season. The fact he had to slow down in the last race to fall back with Nico and was 0.5secs a lap faster in Brazil suggests he too would have been a worthy champion. I think over the course of the season he performed better.


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Well, you haven't seen any evidence of his track performance being compromised because you only watched one third (according to yourself) of the season. Go back and watch the earlier races, where he almost consistently turns a pole into a third, fourth of fifth after the first lap because he hasn't figured out how to get his car off the line. Half way through the season he finally put in the work to figure it out. Then, as you say, in the latter part of the season Nico can't keep up with him. If he put in the work earlier, he could've won the WDC.

[Firstgear]

I am surprised you bothered to respond this bs really. The chap has no idea.

bs, eh? Really?
What did I say that was bs?
Are you saying Lewis didn't say he was hungrier than Nico?
Are you saying Lewis didn't go power surfing with Justin Bieber?
Are you saying Lewis didn't (finally) spend time in the simulator to figure how to fix his poor starts?

Oh - I see what you're saying: Mercedes stole it from Lewis. Ya, I like conspiracy theories too. I just don't buy this one.

[henners88]

Well, you haven't seen any evidence of his track performance being compromised because you only watched one third (according to yourself) of the season. Go back and watch the earlier races, where he almost consistently turns a pole into a third, fourth of fifth after the first lap because he hasn't figured out how to get his car off the line. Half way through the season he finally put in the work to figure it out. Then, as you say, in the latter part of the season Nico can't keep up with him. If he put in the work earlier, he could've won the WDC.

If I had time to go back and watch the races with a 5 week old baby at home I would. I've made sure I've read the race reports for the 15 races I've missed and it's rarely shown Hamilton to be poor apart from in Baku. The fact he finished 3 less races than Nico and only finished 5 points behind suggests on its own that he had a better season performance-wise. Had he not retired in just one race he would have tied the championship up by Mexico. That's pretty good going in my book.


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