Mercedes drivers told to obey team orders in future

[The Black Knight]

I can't remember a summer break where Hamilton wasn't the hot topic in recent years lol. Come on Spa this is boring now!!

The best drivers usually cause the greater controversy. It was the same with Schumacher when he was at Ferrari

[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)

[steveaki13]

I am a general Hamilton fan, but I would say, we seem to see lewis being on the end of these sort of controversies/bad team strategy's/falling outs an awful lot.

I remember his last couple of seasons at Mclaren, people saying Mclaren kept ruining his races, and then the Alonso thing in 2007 and now at Mercedes a feeling he is not happy with the team.

Either he is very unlucky or his attitude behind the scenes, or inter team relations are stopping his progress of challenging for titles.

Coupled with mistakes, he always seems to be on the wrong side of everything. I would think it can't just be bad luck.

[journeyman racer]

I am a general Hamilton fan, but I would say, we seem to see lewis being on the end of these sort of controversies/bad team strategy's/falling outs an awful lot.

I remember his last couple of seasons at Mclaren, people saying Mclaren kept ruining his races, and then the Alonso thing in 2007 and now at Mercedes a feeling he is not happy with the team.

Either he is very unlucky or his attitude behind the scenes, or inter team relations are stopping his progress of challenging for titles.

Coupled with mistakes, he always seems to be on the wrong side of everything. I would think it can't just be bad luck.

The common denominator is?

[steveaki13]

The common denominator is?

Exactly.

[henners88]

It's just bad luck, ask Jean Alesi about that!

[steveaki13]

Jean Alesi often got hot headed in and out of the car though too, so maybe he affected his luck and situation by flying off the handle to often?

I just believe as good as Lewis is and as much as I want him to win this title, maybe he causes himself more problems than he needs too. Especially when getting the bad mechanical luck he has had.

[henners88]

I couldn't say as I don't know what goes on behind the scenes. All I can say is the public see bad luck and the team need to rectify this or he won't be winning any titles. If Lewis wasn't getting frustrated, he shouldn't be in F1.

[steveaki13]

True he has had shocking bad luck through reliability. I hope he can still challenge and win the title.

[Bagwan]

This guy is really fast , and really fun to watch .

Having him at the back of the field , sliding by the rest towards the front has been really entertaining .
He's shown us time and time again why they chose him for that car .

It's been tough , with some poor reliability , but he's right there with his team mate , at the front of the pack .




So , it's not so bad .
And , that's all Lewis has to keep in mind .

I just think that , the poor kid from the projects gets so much smoke blown up his butt that he's gets deflated if it stops even for a moment .
Then , he goes into paranoia mode .

Maybe he does need his dad back in charge , to ground him a little .

He's blindingly fast , but seems a bit blind to the big picture now and then .



It is entertaining , though .
It's certainly one of things I like about him .