Chinese Grand Prix 2015, Shanghai - Race 3/19

This interview is embarrassing. He's complaining about being too close to Hamilton because it destroyed his tires.... but ignoring that in doing that he was backed into vettel... and he destroyed Vettel's tires.

Rosberg couldn't match of beat Hamilton, his primary goal at that point should be to do what Hamilton has done to him for a year. He should have been looking to get Vettel within 2 seconds of him to ruin Vettel's tires, and take Vettel out of his own race.

Rosberg should have been doing what Hamilton forced him to do... anyway, because it compromised Vettel's race.

However, the simple fact is Ferrari weren't fast enough for Merc and Rosberg wasn't fast enough for Hamilton. The buffer that he wanted between him and Hamilton was also the buffer Vettel wanted as well... so it really didn't matter.
 
Rosbergs attitude can pretty much be tracked back to Hamilton beating him in Bahrain last year. He started to fall apart when it became a straight out, bare knuckle fight... which he lost.
 
Flibster said:
Rosbergs attitude can pretty much be tracked back to Hamilton beating him in Bahrain last year. He started to fall apart when it became a straight out, bare knuckle fight... which he lost.
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Na I think it was hungry last year. Not letting nico through and basically saying you got to pass me to nico really hit him hard.
 
elmuzzy66. said:
Na I think it was hungry last year. Not letting nico through and basically saying you got to pass me to nico really hit him hard.
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I'm pretty sure that being dominated with 4 in a row for Hamilton after Australia and realise his lead was being cut into was where Rosberg lost his ****.

He got overly aggressive I would say at Bahrain and got beaten with hamilton on the worse tire. Got spanked at China, almost 20 seconds down, lost in Spain, with Hamilton getting close to taking the lead back... he cheated in the next race at Monaco and got massively criticised about it. Then he pushed Hamilton off at the first corner at Canada iirc, then cut the corner after Hamilton had caught him hand over fist through the race.

He was released by another points gain by the failure at Canada for Hamilton, then a few Hamilton issues in qualifying, failed engine, brakes, When Hamilton beat him from so far down in Hungary then Rosberg reacted again by hitting him at Spa... then Hamilton destroyed him again from then till the end of the season except for Brazil.

Rosberg was outwardly aggressive on track towards Hamilton from Monaco onwards, off track the pressure was growing over the previous 2-3 races.
 
lol, as Rosberg started complaining in that press conference, the duck of the head and Hamilton doing his best to suppress a smile, then being asked a question and that moment where you just can't hide your smile any more... lol. I said, Hamilton will have that issue in the team meeting later for sure.
 
Rosberg just isn't as good as Hamilton. He is close but Hamilton has the edge.

The only thing that will beat Hamilton this season is bad luck or unreliability
 
drunkenmaster said:
This interview is embarrassing. He's complaining about being too close to Hamilton because it destroyed his tires.... but ignoring that in doing that he was backed into vettel... and he destroyed Vettel's tires.

Rosberg couldn't match of beat Hamilton, his primary goal at that point should be to do what Hamilton has done to him for a year. He should have been looking to get Vettel within 2 seconds of him to ruin Vettel's tires, and take Vettel out of his own race.

Rosberg should have been doing what Hamilton forced him to do... anyway, because it compromised Vettel's race.

However, the simple fact is Ferrari weren't fast enough for Merc and Rosberg wasn't fast enough for Hamilton. The buffer that he wanted between him and Hamilton was also the buffer Vettel wanted as well... so it really didn't matter.
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Indeed. If Rosberg wants to control the race from the front he should get pole position. But then even when he did that last year Hamilton got the better of him on a lot of tracks.

I can understand his frustration though. He finally is in the most dominant car on the grid by a good margin but he now has a team mate who is just simply better than him.
 
Jono8 said:
Rosberg just isn't as good as Hamilton. He is close but Hamilton has the edge.

The only thing that will beat Hamilton this season is bad luck or unreliability
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Yeah, I thought this season Rosberg would be able to cope with the pressure of a title challenge better, but Hamilton is oozing confidence at the moment and seems to have him covered at every turn.

I can see why Rosberg is crying, but as Hill said, you want to win the race at the slowest possible speed. Hamilton was clearly playing games though, as his speed once Rosberg pitted showed, but as Hamilton said afterwards, it's not up to him to manage Rosberg's race.
 
this_is_gav said:
Yeah, I thought this season Rosberg would be able to cope with the pressure of a title challenge better, but Hamilton is oozing confidence at the moment and seems to have him covered at every turn.

I can see why Rosberg is crying, but as Hill said, you want to win the race at the slowest possible speed. Hamilton was clearly playing games though, as his speed once Rosberg pitted showed, but as Hamilton said afterwards, it's not up to him to manage Rosberg's race.
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The thing is Rosberg has no reason to cry, the Fangio quote is good, his job is to win the race as slowly as possible. That is more true than ever with 4 engines for the year. If Rosberg slowed as Hamilton did, he would have pushed Vettel back while being in clear air himself, he could have created him a 3 second gap to Hamilton and then done the same thing to Vettel, protected his tires and hurt Vettel.

The fact is that Hamilton wasn't only protecting the tires but also protecting the engine which is important, particular with Malaysia 'on' this engine, probably the hottest and hardest race of this year, not over stressing it is important. Ferrari weren't really what 20 seconds on the final stint slower, once the fight was over, they backed way off to also protect the engine. Hamilton being out front could just do that the whole race.

EDIT:- Actually I think the Ferrari was genuinely 15+ seconds slower on that final stint, it looked supreme on the medium all weekend as shown in Q1. What I mean to say is because merc were saving their engines, Ferrari could have pushed and been much closer than they were before the safety car came out. So both pushing to max, they'd have ended up the same distance behind, both saving engine same amount, that is the gap we had.

The answer isn't for Rosberg to cry it's to recognise what Hamilton was doing and drop further back and do the same to Vettel. I mean Vettel is now Rosberg's main championship rival for second... why wasn't he pushing him into Kimi?

Hamilton was on point with his tactics, Rosberg just had no clue what he should have been doing, which was the same thing. Going slower, protecting engine, protecting tires and hurting Vettel more.
 
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Oh, also worth pointing out that Rosberg's "he should be doing what is best for the team" stance is... errm... well, Monaco, Spa. So it's okay for Rosberg to knock Hamilton out of a race but Hamilton going a bit slow to such a degree that Rosberg had around a 20 second gap to Vettel near the end is... diabolically awful for the team?
 
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