cherok1212 wrote:As I said before, I'd rather Brawn be working on rear tire degradation, fuel consumption, adding downforce and extracting himself from the equivalent of your wife walking in seeing you and her best friend doing the horizontal mamba (Pirelli scandal) than chasing some imaginary brake issue.
I think that's an extremely narrow way of how to look at it. The best combination is always when the car and the driver is working in perfect harmony. The car is nothing without the driver and the driver is nothing without the car. To a certain degree, I'd even go as far to say that it's not necessarely the best car in a technical sense that is important, but a car that works in perfect harmony with the driver. And confidence is where everything starts and ends. If you don't have the confidence in the car in certain situations, how can you expect a driver to put his life on the line and drive at the absolute limit?
I think the topic you are touching on is valid to a certain degree: Rosberg has cought him out. Of course he has - Hamilton effectively came into F1, matched the two times world champion from the get-go and has since had a measure of every team-mate in his entire career. Who wouldn't be cought out? It's an entirely new situation - new team, new people, new car, and I'm sure new communication process. Maybe Hamilton is fixated about it being down to a brake-issue. Maybe it is - maybe it's the first time that Hamilton has to go to that length to make sure the package is that perfect to be ontop of his team-mate? One way or the other, working on the drivers needs is just as important as working on the car.
You can have the perfect car, but if the driver can't drive it (that fast), what's the point? And to add another small point; Rosberg might simply have different needs, and thus, has been extracting more out of the car on the whole?
