Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes Both to Blame for 2015 Monaco Grand Prix Defeat

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Published: May 24, 2015

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On Lap 64 of 78 in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was just beginning to enter the danger zone.

Having dominated two-thirds of the race after securing a comfortable pole position on Saturday, a fourth win of 2015 felt like a formality.

Within 15 laps of the chequered flag, and with a 21-second lead over second-placed Nico Rosberg, Hamilton would have switched to management mode, focusing on just bringing the car home, ensuring nothing could snatch victory from his grasp.



He would have negotiated the tight, twisty turns with increasing wariness, leaving a little more space between his wheels and those cold, hard, smothering crash barriers. 

He would have applied the throttle with more caution than at any stage over the grand prix weekend. And he would have caressed the brakes, which he was forced to manage in the early stages, with greater responsibility than ever before.  

It is in the danger zone, when victory seems so close yet remains so far away, where drivers are struck down by paranoia, causing their minds to play cruel tricks on them.



They hear an unusual noise emerging from the engine and are certain that a failure is imminent, or they feel a slight change in the car's handling and become convinced they've suffered a puncture, thinking up a host of worst-case scenarios and applying them to their individual situation.

Although it is common to see leading drivers and teams conserve their positions toward the end of the race, such an approach risks being counterproductive at Monaco, which favours those who attack its turns with an unrelenting intensity.

Particularly at Monaco, the moment you think the race is won is quite often the first step toward defeat as competitors find themselves torn between offence and defence.



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