On the BBC breakfast show Lewis gave an interview. He said the psychological battle over the season with Rosberg was intense. He said he would be one side of the table with his engineers and Nico on the other side with his. And he said they'd copy what we did, and vice versa, so there wasn't a way to get an advantage.
He said it reached a peak at Spa when Nico came away with 15 points and he got none. He said after that we changed what we did...and it worked..I won.
Which does suggest that's the point he went for a race set up rather than quali ;not sure how he hoodwinked Nico and his engineers.
me,me, me, please Miss, I
know this one
Please see
the 'did Lewis trick Nico over Quali' poll for full details - heres a brief
After
the radio ban, no instructions are allowed to driver over radio about others setup - only in
the pit
So
the only privacy Lewis had from Nico copying his setup was at
the final setup before parc ferme
This is therefore either just before Q3, or more commonly just before
the last Q3 run
That means once its setup and Lewis leaves
the pit - preferably last - There is no more chance for Nico to look at lewis data and copy setup before
the race - Remeber any other time in practice or Q1, Nico, once back in
the pit, can simply check what Lewis had done most recently and copy it
So Lewis would gather long run data and quali run data and then all through
the sessions leading up to Q3
he would setup for optimally quali run, Nico would do
the same gravitating towards which way Lewis was converging with his settings - So
we would see Lewis go fastest first as
he gets setup right much much quicker than Nico, with Nico trying stuff then settling for Lewis'
And then at
the last moment maybe even as Nico was heading out first, all gung ho,
the crafty Lewis would change to his optimal long run setup - obviously this would be planned with his side to be doable in
the time
The result would be Nico going out on a quali optimised setup and going all out encouraged by his increasing 'quali prowess' and eager to get one up on Lewis
And Lewis would go out with a setup that would cause him to be say half a sec slower on setup, and
he would rag his disposable tyres and invariably make
the errors
we expect from setup, nothing major, just little surprises
Then in
the race
we would see Nico lock his brakes regularly early - a sign of a setup not optimised for full tanks etc, and
he increasingly has tyre issues, and is normally worse in
the first half - on a heavy fuel load
I am 100% right about this - FOR ANY DOUBTERS WHO WANNA COME ALONG with
the usual 'but but' and 'dont speculate' or 'you can
know that just by tv' etc etc, then kindly eff off so RC can digest this
when I read about what Lewis did In that GP2 race in Turkey it reminded me very much of his little offs in practices and quali. Finding limits, testing, checking, planning. 
and 