marcush. wrote:we don´t know if this is a weakness in terms of the engineers or a hamilton thing.Smedley with Massa is a clear thing .Rob is the coach and eyes and guides Felipe through the race ...but hows Lewis treating things?
I could imagine that he´s a lot on his own island ,especially after the liegate events when he had to stand up for weird things demanded from him by his pitguys .Things like that can easily put a driver in the wrong frame of mind...he quite often seems a bit desperate in his communication with the pitwall?
I think the open insula engineering desk in Mclarens pits has eased that a little bit but the communication and the coaching could improve his racing.Maybe BVutton is more open to hear and trust his pit?
One can certainly sense the urgency in his voice when he reports to the pits. I am in agreement with you that, perhaps he doesn't have much belief in his engineers. I don't believe that his race engineers are woefully imcompetent but many a time, I question their judgement. I would say his engineer's ability is on par with your average F1 race engineer. Consider Australia of last year when he fought his way up to second. His race engineers had to decide whether he had the tires to make it to the end or not, and I think they mucked it up. China, 2007.....massive lead on Kimi. However his tires were so shot, the team didn't have the option of leaving him out long enough to determine the right tires for the changing conditions. Australia 2009, we know how that went........
If he's confidence in his crew is to improve, he'll need to have a dynamite crew that prove to be right on the money with their calls. That will put him at ease and he'll drive even better.
