I always felt like that with regard to Mercedes with Nico, Schumacher has improved no doubt but Nico just seems to not give a rats arse at the moment since he cant fight for podiums in that car. I do remember reading those famous words from some top dog in Mercedes after Malaysia/China when Nico got 3rd place and Schumacher buggered up. "We hope to not repeat this performance" WOW! a season best 3rd place and he doesnt want to repeat that kind of performance with both drivers? Could be lost in translation, but for me that was ice cold of his performance.
I'm going to stagger this and the champagne one. I'll make the poll at 12 for this one and around 6ish for the other one, so get any last minute ideas in
Yes, Silver. You are right: something could be lost in translation. But there does seem a rather obvious 'emphasis'; suggesting that some parts of their operation might be considered more important than others. Similarly - although this season has been far less of a problem for Christian Horner's lack of diplomacy at Red Bull than 2010 - there is a very clear 'emphasis' over there too!
hard choice between Mercedes and Massa, I went for Mercedes though, although they actually manufactured the result they (Brawn & Schumacher) wanted, again. Personally I don't rate Rosberg at all, so to need to have your team to screw over such a run of the mill driver like Nico really shows how good Schumacher is. TBH I don;t know why Rosberg is still there, his team seem to be doing everythng to try and handicap him over the has-been, every time they design something it's to suit Schumacher, everytime there's a pit '****-up' it benefits Schumacher. We are now gonna here nonsense from the fan-boy about how Micheal was quicker all the way through the race, yet managed beat his team-mate by less time than Rosberg was screwed over from in his 2nd pit stop.
trilobyte - take a trip to the optician - if you can't see Rosberg thrashing Schuey's times right through until called in prematurely, then you are a typical myopic footie fan. It was a fit-up to cover Schuey's tender feelings. The truth like it or not.
Hahahaha… This is nothing personal Trilby, but you've got to laugh at Bergy's excellent (if cutting) response here. It's great to see such wit early in my day… Thanks Dutchman…
That is exactly what happened, the reason why Rosberg pulled away was because he decided to floor it (+KERS) to leg it from the drivers behind him including Schumacher. Michael was putting in slower lap times as Ross Brawn and Michael both said, "Michael/I did not use KERS on the first few laps into the stint", keeping the conditions of his tyres in usable condition for his previous stint. Michael started to catch Nico on his preserved tyres: Team radio : "Good pace-Nico 1.30-Michael 1.29, no need to box carry on, watch out for the orange kerbs". Rosberg therefore had to pit to change his ruined tyres, the lap time was around 4 seconds, nothing incredibly long about this. Michael carried on for his longer run with his older tyres and leapfrogged Nico. He then boxed later into the race, and had maintained the 2.5 second gap that Nico failed to close down on his newer tyres, thus allowing Michael to pull out ahead. A simple inter-team battle concerning tyre and speed management, Michael came out on top, whether you are in denial or not. The gap is 5 points, both drivers are in a closer battle than last year, either one driver is doing worse than 2010 - or the other is improving, the latter is the most probable. Read the above statement, also read the India analysis (Mercedes sub-section) on the F1 website, to clear up the matter. If this was another inter-team battle, it would have been resolved on the conclusion of tyre management issues - Not preserving a drivers feelings <?? WTF.
Well that's it mate, you hit the nail on the head, thrashing is what is happening in Ferrari and Redbull and Mclaren. Mercedes points gap is only 5... they are on much level terms and the next few races will be tense for both drivers. You watch, there will be no love lost between them.
