Can Anyone Catch Lewis Hamilton After a Dominant Chinese Grand Prix Weekend?

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Published: April 12, 2015

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After a shocking loss to Sebastian Vettel in Malaysia two weeks ago, Lewis Hamilton quelled any talk of a Ferrari championship challenge with a dominant weekend in Shanghai, capped by a carefully controlled victory in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix. Perhaps a bit too carefully controlled for his team-mate Nico Rosberg's liking.

After the race, Rosberg complained in the FIA press conference that Hamilton had been holding him up, reiterating a team radio message that had been broadcast during the grand prix. Curious, then, that the timing data indicates Rosberg only once crossed the start/finish line to begin a new lap within one second of his team-mate.

Hamilton rightly responded, "it’s not my job to look after Nico’s race," and that if Rosberg was actually being held up, he could have passed him.



The results in Shanghai confirm not only that Vettel's win in Malaysia signifies false hope for anyone wanting a closer championship fight, but also that Rosberg does not have an answer for Hamilton's speed and consistency.

Indeed, since the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix—where Rosberg clumsily clipped Hamilton's car—Hamilton has finished ahead of Rosberg in nine of 10 races. The lone exception was last year's Brazilian Grand Prix.

"I gave it everything in the end on the prime tyre to try to close the gap to Lewis and just took some risks," Rosberg said on the podium in China. "But it didn’t pay off because my tyres just died off in the end, so there we go, I wouldn’t have managed to get any closer."

It is becoming an all-to-familiar refrain—almost, couldn't, tried my best—especially from a man who was so nearly champion last year. Had it been Hamilton's car, rather than Rosberg's, that broke down in the heat of that Abu Dhabi night last November, the German would be the defending champ right now.

Instead, he is looking for something—a...
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