Quote Originally Posted by Mintexmemory View Post
Which Team Orders has Hamilton ignored in the past? Just as many as Rosberg I'd venture. At least the THREE TIMES CHAMP has never pulled the 'let's end Q3 early by spinning' trick.
What you saw yesterday was a driver who simply doesn't have the cojones for a wet race and one that comes into his own when balance and touch become a premium rather than gizmo management. Hulk rubbed that fact in when he decided tippy toe driving wasn't warranted with just a few spits!!
To address points made elsewhere, clearly the Merc chassis is behind the RBR -witness the inability to make the tyres perform from cool - the reason for Hamilton's very slow out lap on the US and how RIC almost jumped him on the restarts.
As for the chicane incident - at least it was consistent with the Barca decision though on this occasion RIC needed to realise that Hamilton was in an unstable state exiting the chicane - I don't think there was a deliberate squeeze in the manner that the aquaphobic one did 2 weeks ago.
It would have been interesting had Hamilton been behind RIC after the stops. Given the clear power advantage the Merc had in the DRS zone it isn't a given that the Red Bull would have kept ahead.
I thought it was a great 'race' and agree that it showed up the men from the boys from the over the hills from the never wills.
I'd save your fingers for trying to reason with DJ here. He will take any incident he can involving Lewis and find an excuse to lay blame on him.

Regarding your chassis analysis, I am afraid you are incorrect in your assessment that RBR have the best chassis. They might have had a package better suited to Monaco but that alone doesn't and never has been a standard by which to assess best chassis.

Barcelona is where everyone sets their stall out. In fact, you can very clearly see the pecking order in terms of chassis in qualifying there:

Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari.

Ferrari's engine is better than RBR's but couldn't out qualify them because their chassis isn't as good.

The 7 tenths and 1 second to pole of both Ricciardo and Max respectively can't be explained off by engine alone. The RBR might be better in slow corners requiring great traction but in the medium to high speed corners Mercedes sets the standard and this is why they have the overall best chassis on the grid but RBR isn't far off.