Bahrain Grand Prix 2015, Sakhir - Race 4/19

Rosberg being spanked here. I think the main reason the Ferrari's are a bit closer is just having fresher engine, they've got a few bhp advantage there and I think it sounds like Merc have been playing with setups to try and get their tire life optimised so might have compromised there a little.

I thought if Ferrari get to within about half a second then Rosberg would start to slip back into trouble.

Although, it depends who is really the top challenger to Hamilton in the title fight this year, Rosberg or Vettel. Meh, I think unlike last year there will be two drivers sharing the 2nd places which will be great for him.
 
Anyone else want Hamilton to say in the press conference that he's not happy that Rosberg is driving so slowly. It's putting the teams result at risk.

;)
 
Rosberg strikes me as just a spoilt brat. He's grown up in the lap of luxury and had everything handed to him on a plate. Now he's finally at the pinnacle, in F1 driving the fastest car on the grid, but the fly in the ointment is his teammate is simply better than he is. He's struggling to deal with this and is contemplating the very real probability that he'll never be world championship and just has a strop when things aren't going his way.

He reminds me of Zuckerberg's quote about the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network:

"for the first time in their lives, things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them"
 
Haha, I don't know if Hamilton meant that or not, the little comment about can always improve. Last week Rosberg kept on with the, it was 4/100th's, kept saying he would win but for 4/100th's and that there is always more time in the lap. I felt like Hamilton might be adding a little to say, yeah, I could have gone even faster myself. The irritating thing with Rosberg was his insistence he'd have won had he gotten pole... off the guy who utterly controlled him in every session including the race. Hamilton could have started 5th last race and he'd have won.

I did say last week though, you can't go too easy in Q2 because you have to have some idea of where the limit is from Q2 to feel your way to a great lap in Q3. I mean, Rosberg was pretty much making an excuse for himself, he'd never have been close to Hamilton but had he gone a bit faster in Q2 he'd likely have had the confidence to push a bit more on one/two corners and maybe get second.
 
This post on reddit

Finnish commentary started to talk about Sennas chirp Kimi having all 4 tires out of the track limits:

"Well, there's Mika Salo one of the judges today so the tape will dissapear quickly"

"What tape?"

"I dont know, what were we talking about again?"
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Made me laugh, did wonder if they might call him up on it, stewards that is, but in general most tracks that have a contentious part of a track where everyone runs wide to gain an advantage generally gets attention all weekend and they look out for it specifically.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if both Ferrari's beat the Merc drivers. Best possible scenario is both jumping the Merc's.
 
Hamilton is just dumping all over Rosberg now.

Despite the one-sided results there wasn't too much to separate them last year, but I thought Rosberg would be a little better equipped to take it to Hamilton this year... boy was I wrong!
 
this_is_gav said:
Despite the one-sided results there wasn't too much to separate them last year, but I thought Rosberg would be a little better equipped to take it to Hamilton this year... boy was I wrong!
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Hamilton has the confidence and comfort of being reigning world champion and twice world champion now. We saw the same thing happen between Vettel and Webber after his first championship too.
 
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