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Post by RyRy on Nov 15, 2016 6:52:50 GMT
He did a very entertaining and very well performed drive. That you can't take from him. He was however on twenty lap fresher full wets than the rest of the field. So I'm with you on that. However, when he overtook Nico, that was a one on one, with Mercedes clearly being a supremely difficult car to overtake in a track where it's already difficult to over take. Once past Nico he put in a huge gap to him, that's why he didn't even lose the position with the spin. That to me was a bigger credit to his driving in the rain than the overtakes after the new wets were put on. Their car is equally as good as Mercedes in the wet so it was equal on that ground but you have to remember that Red Bull can get tyres up to temperature faster than Mercedes can. So it was a good wet driver vs an average wet driver... It was going to happen sooner or later. Just look at just after he got passed Rosberg, he couldn't close on Hamilton. After the safety car he closed in on Hamilton who was cruising along in first, got the gap to second and then Hamilton put an end to Red Bulls hope and smashed out three consecutive fastest laps making the gap 2 seconds then Verstappen nearly crashed and the gap was up to 6 seconds. If you look at the live timing you'll see that Hamilton was consistently faster than Verstappen even when Verstappen was in clean air, remember Hamilton it's the one with old tyres on and he was just cruising so if he needed to push he could have obliterated Verstappens times. Hamilton was 25+ seconds ahead, watch the on board he was really relaxed out front and like he admitted it was on of his easiest wins. It was only the just 7 or so laps when Verstappen started to go faster.
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Post by Hammer on Nov 15, 2016 8:46:11 GMT
The only thing I noticed Rosberg do well in this race was at one of the restarts, when he kept a distance from Lewis and timed it perfectly to slingshot his way into the last corner....he had a fantastic run on Lewis on the main straights but lacked the balls to do anything about it.
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Post by ang44 on Nov 15, 2016 10:00:45 GMT
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Post by RyRy on Nov 15, 2016 10:27:11 GMT
The only thing I noticed Rosberg do well in this race was at one of the restarts, when he kept a distance from Lewis and timed it perfectly to slingshot his way into the last corner....he had a fantastic run on Lewis on the main straights but lacked the balls to do anything about it. I was more impressed by how Hamilton got the jump on them all, not once, but twice! He nailed too of the restarts when he went early (before the last corner) but the one where he didn't go before the corner Rosberg was right on him (the one you are talking about) Hamilton helped Rosberg with that second restart by starting later than is other ones but yeah Rosberg did time it pretty good, the guy in the lead always has an advantage which makes it especially hard for cars behind. Reminded me of how Hamilton challenged Rosberg at Silverstone on the restart, but in Hamilton's case he nearly actually managed it. Alonso for me was impressive, it goes to show that their car isn't that bad and that it's losing out in the Engine department. He was up in the points until he aquaplaned off only to come out in 17th and fight his way back up into the points. That was equally as impressive if not more impressive than Red Bull's because Alonso made up 7 places with tyres that were 25 laps older than Red Bull's. Verstappen - Best wet car, fresh tyres, made up 11 positions Alonso - Not the best wet car, 25 lap old tyres, made up 6 positions. Yet where was his praise?
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Post by RyRy on Nov 15, 2016 10:29:03 GMT
I would feel really bad for Rosberg if he gets a DNF at Abu Dhabi, that will be two championships that he's lost in the last race, at the same track :/ As much as I think Hamilton deserves the title, Rosberg has done decent enough and has been a very worthy competitor to Hamilton over the years, I'd like to see him get a championship.
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Post by Wß on Nov 15, 2016 10:56:00 GMT
Not in that way. I'd be perfectly content if they were going into Abu Dhabi with the winner of the race takes the championship, but that's not how it is. When you think back at the entirety of the season the only thing that Rosberg has done better than Hamilton is been more consistent with his starts. He's had bad starts too, it's just that he's been more consistent.
That does not a championship make. He's fallen into this one, it happens. We don't need to begrudge him for that, if anything it's Mercedes that's at issue here, not Nico.
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Post by Wß on Nov 16, 2016 17:32:49 GMT
I love hearing about stuff like this, especially the last few lines. Jenson's finest victory ever and why he's so good in the wet/changing conditions.
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Post by ang44 on Nov 17, 2016 12:59:40 GMT
B st rds...
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Post by Wß on Nov 17, 2016 21:25:25 GMT
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