Just as he was in Malaysia. If the team says that overtaking his team mate is verboten, it's a bit of a useless achievement, isn't it?`Quote:
Originally Posted by Mia 01
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Just as he was in Malaysia. If the team says that overtaking his team mate is verboten, it's a bit of a useless achievement, isn't it?`Quote:
Originally Posted by Mia 01
Its good to see a couple of you aren't prepared to give Lewis more than two races to settle into the team and perhaps reach his potential.
Yes, seems Nico has got the car working better for him than Lewis. Maybe Lewis has a learning curve at the moment...?Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
Begs the question why his team mate isn't allowed to use his car knowledge advantage. For Mercedes, Malaysia has been quite the PR desaster in Germany. Way to go - first time 3rd and 4th and they completely undo it by blatant race fixing. German media are going ape**** about the race fixing.Quote:
Originally Posted by P3ws
Lewis will be learning for only 1-2 more races. Then will begin putting 0,5-1s/lap on his teammate.Quote:
Originally Posted by P3ws
yep and until then he'll be kept artificially infront of his team mate. Why does everybody think that Nico cannot keep up with Lewis? So far he's been way more consistent and faster most of the times. His only problem is that overtaking the golden boy is verboten.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
Did they go nuts about Austria 2002 too? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dj_bytedisaster
We've only had one race so far where one Merc was told to hold station behind the other. If the positions are swapped and Rosberg has to nurse it home ahead of a quicker Hamilton who is then allowed to pass his teammate by the team then we'll know that Hamilton is being favoured. Until then I think Mercedes were simply playing it safe in Sepang and I don't blame them at all for their actions.
Mercedes have a good problem on their hands. Rosberg to me seems to be the real deal and a match for Lewis. They need to get the most out of them whilst making sure they do not take points off each other and the team. So far they are doing that well.
It seems the German tabloid press are making far more waves than the inner F1 community concerning this. Hardly surprising though as the British equivalent will use any opportunity to reach out to the more casual fans when something remotely controversial happens.
They raised holy hell about it. Austria 2002 is the very reason, why team orders are as popular in Germany like a Serbian bean soup in a Croatian restaurant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malbec
For me it's obvious that right now Nico has the advantage in how the car/team works, and I have to say even with that advantage staying ahead of Lewis has earned more respect from me than I have ever given Nico in the past. In my eyes this is his first true test against a top notch driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
With that said, I think Lewis will in time develop the car setup to his liking and overcome Nico in many if not most races. If he doesn't it will just reinforce to me that Nico has been underrated by me in the past.