I'm now wondering who at first initiated the request for Hamilton to let Rosberg pass. Mercedes was hoping if letting Roseberg pass then he would had been able to over take Alonso and Ricciardo. With two laps remaining GTFOH
Toto Wolff, Mercedes-Benz’s head of motorsport, said that the team will review the decision to ask Hamilton to let Rosberg by, adding: “We will do this calmly and work our way through any confusion or misunderstanding. There were so many things influencing the decisions we made and we must still determine whether we were right or not.”
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Lewis Hamilton said he was "very shocked" that Mercedes asked him to move aside and let team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg through at the Hungaroring.
The Briton had moved ahead of Rosberg, who started from pole, after the second round of pit stops, but the two drivers were on differing strategies: Hamilton had switched to the medium compound and was set to run until the finish, while Rosberg was on the softs and needed to stop again.
Mercedes asked Hamilton to move aside for Rosberg, but the Briton declined and after finishing the race in third, 0.5s ahead of the German, he explained why.
"I was in the same race as him - just because he had one more stop than me doesn't mean I wasn't in the same race as him," Hamilton said.
"And naturally if I'd have let him past, he would have had the opportunity to pull away and when he does pit, he's going to come back and overtake me, so I was very, very shocked that the team would ask me to do that, to be able to better his position.
"He didn't get close enough to overtake but I was never going to lift off and lose ground to Fernando [Alonso] or Daniel [Ricciardo] to enable him [Nico] to have a better race. So that was a bit strange."
Toto Wolff, Mercedes-Benz’s head of motorsport, said that the team will review the decision to ask Hamilton to let Rosberg by, adding: “We will do this calmly and work our way through any confusion or misunderstanding. There were so many things influencing the decisions we made and we must still determine whether we were right or not.”
Hamilton said that his anguish on Saturday, when he was eliminated at the start of qualifying because of a fuel leak, made his eventual third place all the sweeter.
"I can't express to you the pain that you feel when you have issues such as the issues that I've had in the last couple of races," he said.
"It's very, very difficult to swallow, and, to come back the next day and get the right balance between not attacking too much, and not making mistakes, all these different things…obviously when you're at the back you're having to push way past the limit than perhaps you would from pole position or in the top five.
"The fact that I've managed to come back through obviously is a showing of just how great this car is and how great this team is - but ultimately we've worked, I've worked, hard for it so it feels probably better than perhaps a win, gliding from the lead.
"It feels definitely much more satisfying when you come back through. And, as I said, to be ahead and to win the fight is really encouraging."
As a result of finishing third, Hamilton has cut Rosberg's championship lead to just 11 points - the duo on 202 and 191 points respectively. Race winner Daniel Ricciardo is third on 131.
Nico Rosberg Q&A: Sometimes the odds are against you
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Rosberg avoided answering the questions about having Hamilton let him by right after the race which is fair, but to think he and Mercedes to think that (Rosberg) had a chance of taking back the lead is ludicrous.
Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg held a commanding lead in Sunday’s race at the Hungaroring until Marcus Ericsson crashed his Caterham and brought out the safety car. At that point, the German’s race turned on its head. Afterwards, the world championship leader spoke to reporters about his eventful day…
Q: Nico, it was a really eventful race that in the end probably didn’t deliver what you had hoped for. You started from pole position - but then it went downhill. What are you taking with you from that race?
Nico Rosberg: In my emotional world the last lap is what sticks: that I didn’t manage to pass Lewis [Hamilton]. That is what is consuming my mind right now. Yes, it was an eventful race and I had my share of bad luck with the safety car coming out when I have just passed the pit lane entry, then the brakes started to overheat, so it was a case of accumulating problems.
Q: The pit wall asked Lewis over the team radio to let you past - which he didn’t do. How upset are you about that?
NR: I don’t want to make any comments on that now. We will have to discuss that internally.
Q: Were you ever close enough to him that when the message came you would have been able to overtake him without him slowing down?
NR: As I just said we have to sit down and analyse the situation.
Q: In the same situation and receiving that ‘order’, would you have moved over and let him pass?
NR: That is too much of an ‘if’ right now. That would be pure speculation and it is not my intention to feed speculation right now.
Q: Your attempt to pass Lewis led you pretty far off the track - was that intentional?
NR: In that part you can outrun the car on the inside - we know that it is possible there. I just wasn’t able to do it.
Q: It was a sizzling last lap for all who watched - how was it for you as one of the actors in that scene?
NR: I was driving at full attack - it was necessary to try to overtake [Hamilton] - but I didn’t manage it. And that is really annoying.
Q: When did you realise that you could attack the leading trio?
NR: Actually it was part of the strategy that I would be able to catch the leader towards the end of the race. In hindsight it probably was not a one hundred percent perfect strategy - but that is always easy to say afterwards. A problem was also - as I just mentioned - that my brakes started to overheat and that my tyres were almost finished. So in the end one thing added to the other…
Q: Have you ever before had that compelling wish for one more lap!
NR: Yes indeed, this race was one lap too short for me. But that is racing. Sometimes the odds are against you.
