Now all the news and interviews of Mercedes team mates Rosberg says Lewis was backing him up so his tyres are worse off than Lewis's and he was under pressure from a charging Vettel. But in the same video interview he says Vettel shot his tyres in the first stint when he wanted to pressurise him (Rosberg) to overtake him, in the second stint Rosberg says he was able in the long straight to stop Vettel from getting into the DRS zone, so if Lewis was not going fast enough in the front he should just say you know tyres have been a problem for us and I didn't want to take out too much from them whilst the car is still heavy with fuel to preserve them until later when the car is lighter for me to speed ahead. But being first his tyres were always going to be in a better position then Rosberg and Vettel's tyres but there was a chance for his tyres to lose grip had he gone faster then as he would have been vulnerable later. So it was a good strategy for Lewis for him to be slower then and faster when the car has less fuel. But I would argue with what Lewis did, he didn't compromise the team strategy of getting a P1 and P2, they got that, Rosberg said in the bold above that Vettel was losing grip if he got close to overtake Rosberg so they was no danger to Rosberg's finishing in that spot he qualified in, and no danger to the team's hopes of a P1 and P2.
Video of Rosberg's interview where he says about what was happening to Vettel's tyres when he got close to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Xz72YePsI
Anyway I thought this was motor racing. Surely if Lewis is going too slow the obvious thing to do would be to just attack him anyway and force him to go faster?
True had he been closer, Lewis would have gone faster and they would both have sped ahead, like their did in the last stint.
Rosberg doesn't seem like much of a racer to me...he over-thinks too much, when his best line of attack right now would be...well, attack! He's frustrated that not only is his team mate beating him easily, but also that another driver is splitting them, and now he's spewing all kinds of rubbish about Lewis not going fast enough....
Well, if he was going that slowly, how come didn't Rosberg catch him then? I'm a huge Vettel follower, but Malaysia '13's "tell Mark to get out of the way, he's too slow' rubbish didn't wash with me! At the end of the day, ROS needs to zip it and get on with racing - he's making himself look a bit of a sour-faced fool at the minute. Definitely a weak link in the team, IMO.
