F1 2022-Round 15 - Zandvoort :Dutch GP

I still believe Verstappen overtook Hamilton before the line, would like to see a close up.

Listening to the radio of Hamilton and Toto there it stinks of talking to a child or an absolute narcissist. Toto just explained it there. If they both stayed out there was no chance to win.

What was said? I was watching on F1TV so I didn't get any of that

Kravitz is a fool

Lewis messed a part of that race up, but he would never have won it. If neither Merc had pitted then Max would have had 11 laps to overtake both of them; 9 with DRS. They had no chance against him.

Russell made the choice to go to softs. That's his decision. Things are very different for Merc this year and they have effectively decided that there's no Nr.1 driver. And rightly so. I think Lewis is so used to several years of drivers driving for him that he forgets it occasionally. Russell has every right to go for 1st or 2nd. Even if Max had been in 3rd at the restart, Lewis seems to think that Russell would never have tried to win the race and that he doesn't have the right to even try. Mercedes seem to think otherwise and they are right to let Russell have a go, he is after all their future.

Sure, Mercedes could have played it safe and gone for a 1-2 or 2-3, but this looks like going back to the old McLaren-Mercedes days of Hakkinen and Coulthard where they were let race each other, which was a lot more refreshing than the Ferrari system with Schumi an untouchable Nr. 1. Or the times they let Rosberg and Hamilton fight it out.

To add to that Lewis made a total mess of the restart giving Max a tow around the final bend. Only himself to blame there. The problem is he tends to let his frustration out on the team on the radio rather then just shouting into his helmet. He's done that a lot of times before but I guess he won't change now.

There were stages last season that they seemed to let them race or at least Bottas didn't help Lewis in any way and just let Max by and then hold up Hamilton. Mercedes are more an engineering team, like Williams. The constructers is more or equally important than drivers, McLaren are similar to a lesser extent. They would rather 2-3 than a 1-10 . I would hardly think the days of Schumacher being number 1 (same as Max last season) was an issue to most people as they were against the cosh. There was only 10 points for a win so if a team mate took points or held up it could cost the championship, plus there were only 1 or 2 races a season any of his team mates (like Perez now) could match never mind beat him. If Hamilton was in the running this season then they would have left Russell to try block Max but since a Hamilton win means nothing them (as in equal to Russell) it was best to try maximize their positions.