Quote Originally Posted by Phoenix View Post
If the driver in the other same car (the best car on the grid no less) can't get anywhere near to try to overtake, I'd like to know how the chuff anyone else was gonna do it. If Paddy couldn't work that out for himself, he has no place to be in that team calling those team orders.

Lewis wanted Nico to be overtaken by two cars, then he'd just feck off into the distance and win by 30s or so......

Didn't happen of course, Seb was worried about a German backlash, Danny Ric was nowhere, and Verstappen had other cars to pass which took the best out of the tyres.

Still, Lewis tried something. Win some, lose some.
It was a little like going through the motions , giving the instruction , but consider the fact that the Merc is well-known to have trouble in dirty air .
Both the Red car and especially the Bull car don't , and weren't far behind .
The red car had a frustrated , mouthy German who had just been out-qualified over the course of the year by some old Finn .
That Bull car behind him had a crazy little Dutch boy who will find grip anywhere , and isn't afraid to try fun , new ideas for overtaking .

Sure , it's easy to say he'd get away without a scratch , but Lewis did as much as he thought he could get away with , and it was a masterful drive , in that respect .

They warned him that he needed to speed up .
He told them he knew what he was doing .

Perhaps if he had started backing him up a few laps earlier , he might have had more chance to make something happen behind , but it was a good try regardless .

Something I didn't like hearing , was the eventual WDC whining about the situation over the radio . Gladly , there wasn't too much of it .