Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2014, Yas Marina - Race 19/19

Jokester said:
If Rosberg is in front - he has zero chance of pressuring him, completely zero. Behind he has some chance. Hamilton only has to race the driver in 3rd.

It's basic gaming theory.
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Not a cat in hells chance that Rosberg made a deliberate bad start so he could be second to put pressure on Hamilton, no chance. If Rosberg could have lead he could have lead and tried to simply do what he could to win.
 
drunkenmaster said:
It's very basic, so basic it lacks all logic and every part of it is wrong.

Being ahead if he goes slow he'd force Hamilton to pass him(chance for contact) or back him up into cars behind. No chance is 100% incorrect and it's very obvious it's incorrect. If Hamilton has a bad pitstop, loses time, if he spins, he loses time, losing time from behind Rosberg is better than losing time from 5-10 seconds ahead of Rosberg.

It's plainly obvious that being ahead of Hamilton is both better for Rosberg and absolutely gives him a chance to hurt Hamilton.

Even having Hamilton in his dirty air can cause his tires to go off first, could cause his engine to overheat, could cause a failure.

Rosberg effectively has to win and hope for any mistake from Hamilton, he let Hamilton go into the lower pressure pulling away using his pace without being held up? Hamilton is now building up a large gap over 3rd which gives him more room for a mistake and for it to not effect him. He could be holding Hamilton up by a second a lap like at brazil or as is, letting him build a half second a lap lead over 3rd.... he now has time to spin, be back on track in second and ahead of Massa.
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Hamilton doesn't need to race Rosberg!
 
englishpremier said:
If was Nico I'd be tempted to play a bit a dirty and force the pit crew's hand and tell them I'm coming in with the minimum time they need to prepare. They can choose to service the car or not.

If they service it, it will pee of Hamilton, but Nico would benefit from the undercut.

It'd be a risk, but he hasn't got anything to lose really.
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If he tried pulling that and I was in charge of the pit crew, I'd tell them to put the wrong tyres on his car.
 
Jokester said:
Hamilton doesn't need to race Rosberg!
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Every driver wants to win. Rosberg would definitely not look to go 2nd to pressure Hamilton either . His best chance is to race for the win for maximum points and hope Lewis has an incident, break down, slow pit, etc. Giving up pole is just a retarded idea.
 
Jokester said:
Hamilton doesn't need to race Rosberg!
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I don't know what you point is, he has to, because he's in a race. If Rosberg decided to go 2 seconds a lap slower then Massa would be all over them, he actually does have to pass Rosberg in that situation, that creates a chance for Rosberg, one he DOES NOT HAVE from behind.

Rosberg has not pressured Hamilton on the same strategy from behind at any stage at all this year.

Anyway you can't manage a bad start, because if you purposefully slow down at the start you could lose 5 places, not one. No driver has ever given up a place at the start like that, no driver would ever concede track position to "tactically pressure someone from behind".
 
MagicBoy said:
Rosberg needs to win, with Hamilton 6th or lower. He can't do that from 2nd place...
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The only way Hamilton is going to finish lower than 6th is if he makes a massive mistake or his car breaks down. What pressure is on him to make that mistake in 2nd? Why push his car harder to possibly spoil his tyres or cause mechanical problems.

Does everyone here honestly think Hamilton would risk racing Rosberg (someone who has deliberatly hit him in the past!) when he effectively just needs to finish?
 
drunkenmaster said:
I don't know what you point is, he has to, because he's in a race. If Rosberg decided to go 2 seconds a lap slower then Massa would be all over them, he actually does have to pass Rosberg in that situation, that creates a chance for Rosberg, one he DOES NOT HAVE from behind.

Rosberg has not pressured Hamilton on the same strategy from behind at any stage at all this year.

Anyway you can't manage a bad start, because if you purposefully slow down at the start you could lose 5 places, not one. No driver has ever given up a place at the start like that, no driver would ever concede track position to "tactically pressure someone from behind".
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Indeed. Rosberg nearly dropped to third or fourth which would have been dreadful for him.
 
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