Eh, no it wasn't and that's just pure baseless speculation. Hamilton himself admitted that he took his eye off the ball in a recent interview. Rosberg was simply faster toward the end of the season.
While he did admit this distraction recently , was it not a change in suspension components that were said to be the cause of Lewis's difficulties for the last races ?
The guys from TCS & NERS used to keep up a dialogue on the British Rally Forum during events when that was popular site. I think they still monitor it but there's very little happening there these...
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