Mercedes drivers told to obey team orders in future

[truefan72]

Yeah I agree with this. The team should have switched Hamilton to Rosberg's strategy. I don't get Mercedes decisions to be honest with this. It appears to me as though these decisions always subtly favor Rosberg not Hamilton. We'll see in time what happens in the second half of the season I guess

I don't think there is some conspiracy to hve Nico win the title. but I do think that the mercedes team, especially paddy lowe, lives in some robotic mode come race day where they seem incapable to adapt to altering race conditions and situations. It is like they go into a race with a pre planned strategy and then stick to it come what may. I would also first like to give credit where it is due. Nico's side of the garage is doing a bang up job with the car and overall strategy. (of course that is once they get hamilton's setup lol). On qualy and race day, they make sure that everything is in tip top shape, even the pit stops. Meanwhile on Hamilton's side, there seems to be a lack of effort to absolutely make sure the car is right. I refuse to believe as a team mercedes is undermining Hamilton's car, but i do think that his crew are not doing their due diligence on the car, and/or making for darn sure that there are not any issues. To me this comes down to pure professionalism and skill. And this includes the pit stops too. which are mysteriously always around .5 to 1 second slower. I hope with this summer break that changes in personnel are made and others being asked serious questions about their workmanship.

I really don't think Hamilton's engineer has been of much help to him this season. He seems more like a corporate guy and doing what's best for mercedes than for hamilton. Meanwhile Rosberg's guy genuinely seems to care about Nico and optimizing his race. Whereas one guy (nico's) is actively trying to do all he can to get his driver to win the race, the other (hamilton's) seems content to feed him basic data, and only communicate when initiated by Hamilton, but mostly just waiting for edicts from wolffe and lowe. A good race engineer would have told those guys that it makes no sense to tell hamilton to move aside. he had all the race data in front of him and knew what it would have meant.

It's times like these that ones misses Brawn, who was effectively pushed to retirement to deny him the fruits of his labor in developing this 2014 car. and more importantly his management skills. (meanwhile lowe is doing interviews left and right this week, talking about how his presence has made all the difference to mercedes's fortunes...laughable)