2015 Italian Grand Prix

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It does seem that they're being very hush hush about the problem, mind.

A chink in their armour?
 
sems4arsenal
More than 2 different teams? Has Lewis driven for anyteam aside from Mclaren and Merc?
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No.

As for Lewis I feel it was a power train issue I feel, in case they had to nurse it home, but Mercedes are very secretive. With the engine having issues earlier this week in Nico's car, this engine was probably giving some indicators that weren't good I think.
 
I'd say Rosberg's car failing is why they wanted Hamilton to speed up, but I can't see why that would be a logical reaction.
 
Hahaha, Massa :lol:

I'm just really curious as to what was wrong with Lewis' car, and it wasn't really great apparently since they won't tell Lewis' nor the press just now.
 
GTPorsche
I'd say Rosberg's car failing is why they wanted Hamilton to speed up, but I can't see why that would be a logical reaction.
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I'd say it was a mechanical issue that was slow moving and the engineers could figure out from the data at hand, that if it got worse the best effort was to speed him up so to nurse the car for the last two laps.
 
Can't wait to see the Tifosi's reaction :)
 
So yet another race with Hamilton trundling along in clean air at the front without a care in the world. Thank God we had some interesting action mid-field. Still feel sorry for Kimi, even though he did a stellar job going through the field he never truly recovered.
 
Oh God, Lewis put your hat back on please.
 
Vinylshark
Faster lap times from Lewis means a shorter race.
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But unless he was going to lap Rosberg, that wouldn't have change anything for Rosberg.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
I'd say it was a mechanical issue that was slow moving and the engineers could figure out from the data at hand, that if it got worse the best effort was to speed him up so to nurse the car for the last two laps.
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But having him speed up to cut a few seconds off the race doesn't really change anything but potentially increase the chance of something breaking.
 
Milouse
But unless he was going to lap Rosberg, that wouldn't have change anything for Rosberg.
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True. Guess we need to wait and see if Mercedes will tell anything about it to the public.
 
Someone on reddit said that Lewis' win may be in doubt and he's been called to the stewards.

Take that with a grain of salt though.

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Hamilton and Rosberg have to report to the stewards.
 
Yeah I think they may be penalised a time penalty, hence the speeding up.
 
Hamilton called into the stewards for low tyre pressures, looks like his coasting caused it.
 
GTPorsche
But having him speed up to cut a few seconds off the race doesn't really change anything but potentially increase the chance of something breaking.
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Once again, they probably figure it wouldn't complete fall apart but would hurt the car enough to have Vettel catch or worse. Thus with such a short gap to the end they had him push, and now they can go back and rebuild it. That's the point.

EDIT: Tire pressure issue I guess, hope it doesn't go like RBR 2014 Australia.
 
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Someone on reddit said that Lewis' win may be in doubt and he's been called to the stewards.

Take that with a grain of salt though.

Confirmed:

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Hamilton and Rosberg have to report to the stewards.
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Have they found something on the cars that is against regulation?

Never mind - tire pressure.
 
They are really trying hard to push this Star Wars nonsense huh?
 
Lauda has a face like thunder following the impromptu Woolff/Lauda/Communications meeting on the prat-perch. What's going on? Is there a thought that the Mercs ended with tyres under the recommended pressures?

EDIT: Ah, I see now, starting tyre pressures, not final pressures. I guess that would be a flat DSQ?
 
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