How Hamilton rebuffed Rosberg in the final laps

27 comments on “How Hamilton rebuffed Rosberg in the final laps”

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   a4p (@a4p)
   15th March 2015, 15:33

   Kimi had the pace to put under pressure Hamilton and Rosberg! Check his gap when he had no traffic, in the second stint.

   His race was jeopardized by the turn 1 incident, alas.
   1. 

      ADD (@addimaf1)
      15th March 2015, 15:36

      Two stop strategy, so he went harder on his tires than everyone else.
   2. 

      PorscheF1 (@xtwl)
      15th March 2015, 16:05

      @a4p He was the only driver who went option/option/prime. Well, that was the plan. Fifth was most likely his place today.
   3. 

      anon
      15th March 2015, 16:20

      During that stint Kimi was on the softs while everyone else (except for Ericsson) was on the mediums, he was on a 2 stop strategy compared to the drivers ahead who all one stopped, so you would expect him to be fast at that point in the race.
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         Edgar
         15th March 2015, 21:05

         And the guys on mediums were saving it to go to the end, whereas Raikkonen was just flat on the gas.

         And still, he wasn’t clearly faster than Hamilton. The pace was pretty much the same.

         This W06 is a beast. I can’t wait to see what kind of domination they’ll have on Spain.
   4. 

      pastaman (@)
      15th March 2015, 21:48

      Yeah, you are assuming he could have kept up that pace on soft tires. So no.
   5. 

      medman (@medman)
      16th March 2015, 3:58

      Don’t fool yourself…the Mercs are in their own galaxy, Ferrari can only hope to be the 2nd best constructor in 2015.
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   Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
   15th March 2015, 15:35

   On the graph.

   1.- Select None
   2.- Tick Hamilton and Button
   3.- Cry

   He consistently lost 4 seconds a lap.
   1. 

      LosD (@losd)
      15th March 2015, 15:41

      Ouch
   2. 

      Iestyn Davies (@fastiesty)
      15th March 2015, 20:07

      @fer-no65 True, but I think they turned it up near the end and were only 2.4 seconds per lap slower (last lap)… that at least puts them fighting with guys like Perez on pure pace from now on (as we saw in the race, heh). Maybe in China or Spain they can turn it up to full..
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      Eric (@fletch)
      16th March 2015, 1:01

      Wow Button has such consistent loss! His line is nearly perfect. Throw in Massa to see where McLaren has to go to meet Williams.
      I pushed Grosjean and Maldonado but nothing happened… Weird
      1. 

         Mark
         16th March 2015, 12:13

         Not so weird as they were both out at the start of the race.
   4. 

      Guenther Schuldt Filho (@guenther)
      17th March 2015, 16:11

      Best comment of the year so far!
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   Graham (@guitargraham)
   15th March 2015, 16:18

   hamilton teased rosberg the same way you’d tease a cat with a piece of string. its actually one of the best examples of gap management ive ever seen
   1. 

      Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
      15th March 2015, 16:38

      But Rosberg was breathing better.
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         Grosjean's smile (@testacorsa)
         15th March 2015, 20:13

         hihi
      2. 

         medman (@medman)
         16th March 2015, 4:00

         LOL. Rosberg…breathing better in the race…hyperventilating into a bag after the race. Lewis is probably just a bit too talented for Nico, and without failure of Hamilton’s Merc, Nico’s battle against his teammate will always be an uphill one.
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   Woody (@woodyd91)
   15th March 2015, 18:47

   I think Hamilton knew he could just keep Rosberg out of reach whenever he liked so he just used the race as one big test session on how to manage the fuel & tyres, which even after so much work in off season for Rosberg he still can’t manage to match Hamilton on fuel consumption, the fact that even Mr Brundle had to eat some humble pie on last season as he had constantly repeated that Rosberg would be better and managing both tyres and fuel, turned out to be wrong on both fronts. Rosberg is saying all the right politically correct things off the track but on the track, where the talking really matters he isn’t doing so well. Early days though yet, Let’s see how that develops.

   I rated the race itself 5/10, I was happy Lewis won and has shown he is so focused, despite some of the media attempts to show differently throughout the weekend and even my own concerns of how emotionally stable he would be but he has put an end to those speculations, but the lack on runners made the race itself to be quite flat. I don’t need it to be a battle for the lead to be a great race, as long as there is battles on the grid, and I think once some of injuries and reliability issues, not to mention team mistakes have been sorted out I think this season will be a great season to watch. Seeing Red Bull fight mid field should be interesting as well, Although I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of good old Horner talking about how poor Renault are and how the FIA should be changing the rules. He moans more than teams on the back of the grid living on the breadline. Put up or shut up Red Bull & Renault. Deal with your problems and stop blaming the rules for your own failures…As it’s quite clear that you can make significant gains inside the current rules. It is ironic though that Renault were one of the OEM’s to threaten to leave F1 if they didn’t go to 1.6 V6’s, which could turn out to be the very reason they may leave F1 if their woes continue.
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      Edgar
      15th March 2015, 21:07

      And prior to the pit stops the gap between them was the biggest of the race.
   2. 

      regs (@regs)
      16th March 2015, 1:06

      He knew nothing. They were racing like McLaren in 1998 – just were finishing the race from lap 1 with maintained order.
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         Woody (@woodyd91)
         16th March 2015, 1:59

         And I suppose the team also told Rosberg to slide along the wall at one point just to make it look like he was really trying to push?
         1. 

            regs (@regs)
            16th March 2015, 7:12

            Just like back in 1998. David had a point. But was told to keep stay behind.
            1. 

               Woody (@woodyd91)
               16th March 2015, 17:33

               I really don’t know how to respond to such a silly comment.
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      TribalTalker (@tribaltalker)
      16th March 2015, 8:48

      @woodyd91: First the Red Bull team needs to stop being eclipsed by Toro Rosso… same engine, less experienced drivers, far smaller budget, yet faster.
      Of course, it’s only race one. Too early to say, definitely too early for Mr Horner to be crying in his coffee. Won’t stop him of course.
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         Woody (@woodyd91)
         16th March 2015, 17:31

         Yep, I fear this season will be dominated by Mr Horner and his tears.
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   BigAlex
   16th March 2015, 7:29

   I know this is the first race, but I just expect more fighting from Rosberg. When you start attacking you DO attack and don´t back off, put the guy in front in REALLY HARD pressure. At least learn something with Hamilton.
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   Michael Ingraham (@meingraham)
   16th March 2015, 19:28

   Lap chart does not appear on Google Chrome. Works fine with Microsoft IE.

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