2015 Brazilian Grand Prix report

 

Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes reports from Interlagos Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Dear Moli, As in Mexico, so in Brazil: Nico Rosberg from pole all the way, Lewis Hamilton in his wake complaining about how impossible it was to overtake. “Is there a different strategy you could give me?” he asked after 10 laps sitting in Rosberg’s DRS zone in the second stint but unable to get close enough through the preceding turns to make it count. But competing strategies is against team policy at Mercedes. They are free to race, but not to try to beat each other on strategy – not when each is the other’s only rival for the win. “We won’t change that policy,” said Toto Wolff. “It’s been like that here since 2013. From the fan’s point of view I can understand that they might wish to see it different. But we could have done, like other teams, a number one and two driver where the number two is not allowed to fight at all. At least we haven’t done that and you have seen many good fights between them. But we don’t want to go this one step further.” “I’m here to race,” said Hamilton, “it’s so difficult to overtake here and when you both have to do pretty much the same strategy it’s kind of already set from the beginning. So I’m like, ‘if there are other strategies, let’s do it, let’s take the risk,’ and they are like, ‘look after the tyres,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I’m racing.’ And I think that’s what people want to see… It would be great sometimes to be able to do something different, see how it plays out. They do so many strategy simulations, pick the best two and that’s what you’re stuck with.” Click here to read the full report >

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