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Yes. Hamilton had some mechanicals. He almost acted like it "wasn't fair" that he had blown engines for "some odd reason" and that is what determined the outcome. I have a little bit of a hard time with this entitlement thinking. Didn't Nico have several mechincals last year? And honestly, how hard...

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This sounds odd, but I think subconsciously Lewis lacks self-confidence - which is why he's always trying to justify why he lost. I'm not only thinking about this WDC title, but also tweeting car telemetry a few seasons ago to justify Button beating him (in quali IIRC). I see what you mean. It des ...

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Grizzly B wrote:Interesting to see that Vettel has effectively ruled himself out, but Alonso yet to do the same...

Which makes sense as Vettel is already in a car that is likely to be a contender next season - whereas this is probably not the case for Mclaren.

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Stewart is entitled to his opinion and we are entitled to disagree. It has to be borne in mind though that Stewart raced in a different era when racing was FAR more dangerous than today, and this will influence his opinions. But (as always) - we agree with opinions that are the same as ours, whilst ...

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This sounds odd, but I think subconsciously Lewis lacks self-confidence - which is why he's always trying to justify why he lost.

I'm not only thinking about this WDC title, but also tweeting car telemetry a few seasons ago to justify Button beating him (in quali IIRC).

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Also, his call to other drivers, "If you stand the heat, don’t come" makes him look very self-contained, as well as the constant stress that he only needs "equal rights" . He had them in the last year and got beaten. End of story. Whilst the reason why Hamilton got beaten IMO, has more to do with h...

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I doubt you will see Vettel at Mercedes while Hamilton is still there. I think that depends on whether Vettel truly waited for Alonso to leave Ferrari before joining, or if he was always going to leave Red Bull and head to Marenello regardless. If he was willing to put himself in the same car as Al...

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If Lewis (or anyone else) was the best driver this season - then it doesn't say a lot for those convinced that there is more talent on the grid now than a decade or so previously....

Let's be honest - there was no standout driver as they all made too many mistakes.

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One has to say that Rosberg has shown the greater lack of team dedication by now leaving Mercedes without a world class driver for the new year despite having a signed contract for his services next year. Potentially this is far more damaging to Mercedes than whether Hamilton put at risk a virtuall...

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Voted Wehrlein. It makes too much sense He may be a logical choice but he's not a solid driver yet. Aren't Mercedes trying to find someone more capable than Rosberg? Some drivers are & some are not. Wehrlein is 1 of them. If any doubt, then Force India overlooking Wehrlein & hiring Ocon is not just...

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I've given up on predicting driver movements - but wouldn't it be great to see Max move to Merc.

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Obviously it won't happen, but it would be entertaining as long as you're not a fan of either driver.

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Yes. I'm certain his lawyers have been combing through every detail of his McLaren contract :thumbup: Its also likely that Merc. and Lewis would block the idea - 2007 gave a few warning clues about teaming prima donnas! Edit - Having said this, it seems likely that unless Alonso is sure that Merc. ...

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While many people are ruling him out, I think Perez would be a good choice. He's proven he's fast, not far from Button a few years ago, and lately improving, now surpassing Hulkenberg (who was hyped big time). He's not a top team (which would've been more complicated), meaning switching to Merc it'...

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I've given up guessing as I didn't think for one second that Kimi would go back to Ferrari, or Alonso to Mclaren.

Having been very wrong twice, it would be foolish to make it three times!

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Why issue team orders at a race where it's the final show down, both drivers can win it and there is no chance another team will get the title. Because that's what they've done all year - go for the best team result. I don't see why they would change that approach just because it's the last race. T...

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So 70% of posters basically think Lewis did nothing wrong. I'd agree, the media are building this up, fuelled by toto ridiculous comments which he seemed to half go back on ? All Hamilton did was try to expose Rosberg's weaknesses in that race what a terrible tactic that is. the remaining have put ...

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Although that would explain why Lewis won his WDCs with Merc. previously, and Nico won this year

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Can't help but think this will be significant in the off season, and might end up being short sighted by Mercedes. Switching a Champions mechanics and/or engineers is unprecedented, regardless the reasons for doing it. Hamilton was obviously not in favor of the switch, and he should rightly feel ag...

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I checked in the second option. There was the conflict of interest: the personal interest of the driver vs. the interest of the team (that, btw., is paying that driver to drive for them). See, I cannot do such on my job, go deliberately sabotaging the company's interest, and against their explicit ...

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It's impossible not to chuckle at the absolute mayhem Nico's victory has caused in the BBC F1 crew. Andrew Benson is beside himself, and the whole bunch has belted out a handful of not-so-subtle and a few downright insulting put-downs of the recently crowned champion. There isn't a news item on the...

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So, I'm reading a lot of posts about how luck has played a big part in Rosberg being so close to this years WDC and as such the title will be seen as tainted as the better driver over the season will not be WDC. So, if Rosberg and Hamiltons season were reversed and Hamilton now stood to win the cha...

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Hamiltons interview with Brundle http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10674420/lewis-hamilton-defends-his-tough-duel-in-the-desert-tactics "Nico is going to enjoy this, it is an amazing feeling when you win a world championship. I don't want to take anything away from that, he did everything he t...

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https://youtu.be/bmHLB2GHWoc Very interesting Very! I wonder how relations deteriorated so much to the point Hamilton quit (even if it was only for a short period of time), given that the incident was pretty much a racing incident. I doubt he would quit just because he and Rosberg had a falling out...

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I think Lewis needs to look at it from the perspective of despite all the reliability issues (the Malaysia engine boom is clearly the point that he lost the title race) Lewis kept Nico racing until the final GP of the season. Nico should have had the title in the bag a few races back, but Lewis dog...

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Merc. will do nothing apart from Lewis being ostrasisted for a while. I wouldn't want to have been Lewis at the Merc. party that night!

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I checked in the second option. There was the conflict of interest: the personal interest of the driver vs. the interest of the team (that, btw., is paying that driver to drive for them). See, I cannot do such on my job, go deliberately sabotaging the company's interest, and against their explicit ...

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I haven't seen either side "slinging immense heaps of mud at each other"? Sorry, haven't been too clear. This forum, as usual, is pretty balanced and civilized (pretty, because there's been a few posts...). But man, just look at other places. The amount of bile spewed by both Hamilton fans (mostly ...

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UnlikeUday wrote:For me,

Rosberg & Vettel

You may have a point, but I voted for Seb before even thinking about Nico.

Forgot to mention that a large part of voting for Seb as DoTD was because he was instrumental in the successful strategy to change his strategy!

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I've gone for Ricciardo. There really are too many votes for Hamilton. While Rosberg made mistakes, Hamilton has also. Certainly not a great season from him. Ricciardo has had pretty much no mistakes all year. That crash with the 2 Mercedes is Spain was at leased 50% Hamiltons fault I'd say. Then h...

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1. Mercedes were both right and consistent in making the call. The 1-2 was in jeopardy, so they had two choices. First one being trying to secure the 1-2. Second one being letting them go at it. Key point is what they have done in this kind of situation earlier: they've always tried to get the 1-2....

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I'd go for Verstappen: he rocked more boats than anyone and is an exciting, aggressive driver. What was telling was the Mercedes team's relief that it was not Verstappen on grid row two, close to their boys, esp. Rosberg. Not considering Max is the best/fastest, which imo belongs to Alonso. Disagre...

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Difficult as nobody really 'stood out'. But then its difficult to do so in an inferior car and so I eventually voted for Alonso. But am still not sure whether Alonso just put the car 'where it ought to be' - bearing in mind Button is very temperamental to the car, making Alonso's few unexpectedly go...

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Blake wrote:

All the excuse making, the conspiracy theories, the skill put-down, the bad-luck Lewis line.... followed by a congrats, Nico.

Now that is funny. A back-handed congrats of high order.

Quite, and stitch512 is right too - Lewis will now know how Massa felt when losing '08.

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At the start of the season i said that Merc will make, in their last year of total dominance, a german pilot the WDC - well done and executed. Their stupid order in the last race proved my suspicions that they wanted and (probably arranged) for Nico to be a WDC. If it was all fair they would have s...

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bourbon19 wrote:Congrats to Nico! Great racing - especially the Max interval. I wasn't impressed with Hamilton backing him into the pack - too dangerous. But all is well that ends well and I am pleased we have another champion in the sport!

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So 70% of posters basically think Lewis did nothing wrong. I'd agree, the media are building this up, fuelled by toto ridiculous comments which he seemed to half go back on ? All Hamilton did was try to expose Rosberg's weaknesses in that race what a terrible tactic that is. the remaining have put ...

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Luck can go kiss its momma. Anyone who wins the championships deserves it. Period! Was Hamilton's first title tainted? We all saw what happened that day. Rosberg has driven like a driver who deserves world championship as much as Hamilton. We have no clue how much Hamilton's driving style has affec...

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No mystery. They interviewed Toto on sky and he was asked why Hamilton said he didn't know why they swapped. Toto said that he was not surprised by Ham's answer and they have taken the time to explain it to him. When Webber/Vettel used to clash they used to swap engineers etc to remove the us vs th...

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Apologies for the stupid question guys..... But how likely is it that any of Lewis' engine failures could have been attributed to the engineers that were swapped over? Had he kept the same team as last year - is it possible he would have suffered less this year If that were to be the case, then it ...

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Its also relieving that Massa never won a title, he has now lost 11 times and won just twice (2005 and 2008). The 2007-2009 Ferrari line up gets weaker and weaker with hindsight. So it is relieving? He came within the last turn of the season and one point of doing just that... he has, as has been p...

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