I'm not sure about that. Rosberg isn't looking particularly good in this situation. If he'd have apologized, said it was merely an accident and moved on, it would have been much better, but he's acted like a royal berk with some of his reactions. Or at least in my opinion.
If he apologised and gave up the ghost, yeah actually he would look a bit innocent in peoples eyes. Now he does look like a proper bond villain, well from the British media/fans POV anyway. But instead of fighting fire with fire, he is actually playing the mental game really well.
Not really, he is looking like a hypocrite actually! He says one thing in the team briefing and then comes out and saying something different. From what we understand he came to the session blaming Hamilton for the accident ...which is laughable, especially when the team bosses say it was totally his fault. Rosberg knows the rule about the driver at the front having the racing line.
I dunno... he just seemed to act like a bit of a git. Something they've both been successful at this year. It'd serve em right if it went Pete Tong and Ricciardo snuck in and took it.
Just because I am an ignorant, can somebody post up a source where Rosberg said that he was to blame?
Smithers..they are formula 1 racing team mates not husband and wife..And even husbands and wives have their differences...
If he apologised he'd have given Hamilton the upper hand. The fact he hasn't proves that he's a lot stronger than people give him credit for. He'll have known before the season started that Hamilton gets into an inter team battle often and he probably couldn't give two ****s what the British think about him because he knows that most of them don't know anything about the sport and blindly follow Hamilton. He probably also knows that he'll be hated by the end of the year by the Brits so i'm sure he prepared for it. Plus this wouldn't have ever happened if Hamilton gave him a little more room, as he would have kept the position and wouldn't have cost the team 25 points.
Didn't he say Hamilton should have given him more room to overtake? Isnt that blaming Hamilton? So he thinks Hamilton should stop at the side and wave him by in every race now? Maybe he plans to share his points with Hamilton for that good deed.
What makes those that support Hamilton, blind and know nothing about the sport? I get fed up of those kind of blanket statements.
Why, when Hamilton had the racing line and Rosberg didn't have enough speed around that corner to make the pass, and it was obvious before they got around the corner that he didn't should Hamilton have give him enough room?
Mercedes are saying it was Nico's error...are they blind too? is Lauda blind?..I don't think so....think u might be on a wind up.
Down the inside with the DRS and slipstream overspeed then yes it's the best on the circuit but just with a slipstream and being forced to the outside, then no especially since it's against your teammate in the 2nd lap of a long race. The more I think and watch the move it really was clumsy from Nico because it wasn't even a move it was just a dangle round the outside to be honest and when he realised he wasn't getting passed he made a very costly misjudgment on his turn in to tuck back in and caught Lewis. I think all this luck he's having could come back to bite him and I hope so because right now it is pretty unfair the way things are going for Lewis. Just a final point I think after Silverstone Lewis said he doesn't want or need any good luck just the stoppage of bad luck will allow him to take the title. Now I think he may need good luck(DNF's for Nico) and no more bad luck to win this title.
Rosberg responds... sort of. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/28927782 Important bits in bold. 1) can probably be construed as "I think Mercedes need, in purely mathematical terms, to support me over Lewis" 2) probably a reference to Hamilton cutting across his wing just like he did in Bahrain 3) both a good damage control statement and a dig at Hamilton, who tends to act on emotion and impulse.
I can't add anything to this. The problem is that it gets blown out of all proportion by the media and, crucially, in the drivers' minds. The crowds boo the pantomime villain and the Mercedes teams' tactic to defuse the situation seemed to be to apportion blame straight away, but that didn't work either. Often a good teammate rivalry spices up interest in a season. This is getting out of hand and is making the whole team look like a bunch of amateurs.
