The Hamilton/Button tyre wear myth had nothing to with a single blocked wheel in a tight and hard-fought overtaking battle, as well you know. The myth was tyre wear, not racing damage.Diesel wrote:It's clearly not a 'mith', whatever that is. Lewis had new sets of options for the race in China, Jenson did not.
Lewis locked his front tyres in the final stint and had to carry a heavy flat spot through to the end of the race, he was concerned about making it to the line.
Anyone trying to move the goalposts at this late stage in the game, and hoping nobody notices, simply paints themselves into an ever diminishing tighter corner, betrays that they really know in themselves that the stubborn facts all came in and they long since lost the argument. No shame in admitting you were hoodwinked by facile simplistic media sound-bites and went along for the ride. (Well there is actually ...)
Hamilton had his brand-new set of option bolted on at his first stop, presumably when McLaren were still thinking 2stop, this was his shortest stint of the day by a good chunk, and thus he actually lost-out on much of their available relative performance advantage in that set. He did all the serious spadework to get into proper contention on the used set of options applied in the third stint.
Anyone with any familiarity with the race and test data, or specific knowledge of the specifics of setup and car dynamics, fails to find or articulate the much vaunted idiot-journalist/internet-messageboard noisily hyped differences that you attempt to cling to here.
When informed engineering opinion coincides precisely with the available ontrack evidence, the evidence of our own eyes, that becomes sufficient for me.
Your mileage may vary.
Smedley actually said "Hamilton is the car behind. Hamilton is the car behind. We are going to have start defending from him."Ashley wrote:"You now have Hamilton behind you. Get ready to defend properly
