Where does Nico Rosberg go from here?

[Nitrodaze]

If you see the other guy braking longer , you can let him overspeed wide and try to get him inside .
If you are right beside him , and you know you have both the wider trajectory , and the grippier line , you know he cannot run through the corner at your speed , or he will slide into you .
It's kinda basic , the idea that you want to avoid other cars on track , as these machines are pretty fragile , and if you know (as Lewis said he did) the other guy is on the grippier line , and right beside you , you must be aware that you are likely going to hit him if you don't slow a little , to keep a tighter line , leaving space .
Lewis , as I see it , never had any intention of leaving that required space .

You have to trust the guy in the other car at the speeds they drive .

The way it looks to me is that every time Nico sees this behavior , and sees it essentially unpunished , it lets a little more air out of his balloon .


Is it simply racing ?
That's what Kimi wants to know , too .

And , hey , I guess if it's clarified and I'm told it's just racing , then fair play to Lewis , and congratulations on a hard fought championship , by all means .

I took another couple of looks at the start and l have to agree that it was a tough elbowing maneuver by Hamilton. But my point was that Rosberg put himself in that position by having a bad start which put Hamilton along side him before the approach to the corner. Rosberg had lost the advantage of starting at pole at that point. From then on it was sheer desperation to hang on to get something out the apex of the corner and Hamilton could see the loss of advantage and the position was there for the taking.

You have to watch it again and look at Kyvat's line into the corner. Kyvat's line is closer to the proper line through the corner, but it is the slower line as he initially gained advantage on his teammate who took the wider line going into the corner but lost the advantage coming out of the corner. But he got a better drive through the next corner to pass Ricciado.

Hence l concede that Hamilton could have left more room for Rosberg, but at the expense of losing the advantage coming out of the corner. This is the junction where the racing instinct of champions kick in. For the rest of my explanation, l would swap in Alonso for Hamilton.
So Alonso finds himself at the apex of the corner alongside his teammate and he knows he had gained advantage into the corner by a nose. He knew he could give his teammate a little more room, but his analysis tells him that such a move would hand over the advantage to his teammate coming out of the corner and possibly expose him to attack from behind.
What would Alonso do in this circumstances where there was a race win and possibly clinching world title was on the cards?

The racer in Alonso would do what it takes to get ahead coming out of that corner. So would Vettel, Schumacher, Lauder, Senna, Prost etc. THIS MY FRIENDS IS RACING plain and simple. Not a tea party or a friendly game of cards.