Lewis Hamilton’s Battle with Nico Rosberg Turns Nasty at 2014 Hungarian GP

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Published: July 27, 2014

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The 2014 title battle between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, the Mercedes drivers, has officially turned nasty.

After the suspicions, claims and counter-claims surrounding Rosberg's off-track excursion in the dying seconds of qualifying for May's Monaco Grand Prix, the first real sign of inter-team dynamics turning sour at Mercedes, things became a little more blatant during Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

Races are running out, time is ticking by, and the Silver Arrows drivers are no longer just scoring points to consolidate or improve their championship positions—they're scoring points against each other.



Their job, aside from winning races and recording podium finishes, is to act as an irritant to the man on the opposite side of the garage; to land a few cheap shots, to distract him and starve him of opportunities to gain the initiative.

Hamilton is arguably the most practiced of any driver in this style of warfare.

The 2008 world champion, prior to the Monaco weekend, told the official Formula One website that his relatively modest background in contrast to Rosberg's made him "hungrier" to succeed.

Ahead of Rosberg's home race at Hockenheim, Germany, meanwhile, Hamilton explained to Paul Weaver of The Guardian that his teammate was "not really German."

And you know what? Rosberg went on to win both those races.

A change of approach, then, was perhaps inevitable for Hamilton, who literally did his talking on the track at the halfway stage of the Hungarian Grand Prix.



The British driver, who with medium tyres fitted to his car was not planning to stop again, found himself ahead of a charging Rosberg, who had softer rubber and therefore one more trip to the pit lane to make, on Lap 46 of 70.

Hamilton, to make Rosberg's strategy work, was instructed via team radio to put up little resistance to his teammate's advanc...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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