Quote Originally Posted by The Black Knight View Post
Yeah it would have alright. It was a ridiculous situation. The issue is with this formula is that you can't have it both ways. You can't expect someone to evaluate a couple of hundred switch positions and race around an issue at the same time. It's a different skill sets required for each.

I think we have to leave go of history and stop wishing that the days of drivers magically driving around issues are gone. It can still happen, now and then, but figuring out a switch position isn't the same thing as that and doesn't contribute anything to the entertainment value of F1.

If people don't want to leave go then the rules have to be changed to make the less complicated and more about driving which, unfortunately, is something the 2017 rules don't do!

Either that or let the sport evolve naturally and stop meddling with it. And, most importantly, stop bitching about what we do have all the time. People love to complain.
I think we should remember that the teams do know that they can't relate much info to the driver , and thus have designed things to be as simple as they can be .
They know he's busy .

It was a little easier for Nico to figure out , as he had changed a setting , saw a result , and quickly realized he should change it back .
For Lewis , it was different , as he had been in the mode from the start , being he had started farther back , so it wasn't , perhaps , as immediately obvious .

But the team gave him instruction to put his head down and figure it out , which he duly did , making it obvious that he knew he was in the wrong mode from the very start .

It was a short term panic , and an understandable one , given the limited number of laps left , with a rival getting away , and a team mate cruising .
It was a simple fix , which he figured out .


This seems to be just another way you can build a fast car that can lose you the race .




One thing I mentioned before , though , that I still don't understand , is why Lewis said "I didn't do anything . It just fixed itself ." after the race .