iotar__ wrote:
Come on, he had pace and don't forget strategy.
I didn't know that beating one driver (plus your team-mate) in ridiculously dominant car is a superhuman achievement that takes some extraordinary effort - no, it was slightly better start and avoiding getting overtaken on couple of occasions. Rosberg is not a world beater wheel-to-wheel and was the more careful one. They can slap each other on the backs and amplify duel with some colourful language but that's what it was. IMO several other drivers would have coped with Hamilton grit or no grit.
It's probably partly expectation bias but I'm jumping on Red Bull has bestest traction/high speed bandwagon - the way Ricciardo got past Raikkonen
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Well i don't know about you, but after the safety car, with 11 laps to drive the same car with the other car having tyres 0.5s a lap faster, i thought the race was over right there. I've been watching F1 for a while now, and there's no way i would expect Hamilton to even have a chance of winning. 11 laps was just too much for a car to defend another 0.5s faster especially on a broad track with 2 drs zones.
If that wasn't super, i don't know what is. These events happen in F1, but they are very rare. I don't think any driver on the grid right now who hasn't been driving for at least ten years should even be mentioned as being capable of producing what happened today.
It wasn't a matter of attacking, it was a matter of the defensive tactics and balls to the wall driving. Rosberg's attacks weren't weak at all. I don't think he could have done it any different.
You may be confused with comparing two different cars with the leader on worn out tyres, which makes it easier to overtake. Typical midfield pirelli tyre cliff edge stuff. (nothing like the v10 days where guys are sprinting the last 20 laps on grippy tyres; not holding back on anything)
Today both cars had competitive tyres. Both cars were the same, engines turned up. None was suffering with drivability. It was simply down to one having a 0.5s advantage. And you have to look back to refueling days and pre pirelli before you get those nice situations where two drivers go head to head with fit machinery. No cliff edge tyres, no car advantage. Just lap times.
The most recent i can remember is the shumacher Hamilton battle in china. or the Webber, Alosno Hamilton in nurburg ring, epic stuff.
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