Lewis Hamilton’s Qualifying Issues Remain as F1 Title Race Resets at Belgian GP

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Published: August 23, 2014

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With just 11 points separating Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton at the top of the drivers' standings going into the Belgian Grand Prix, this weekend was about more than the resumption of the Formula One season.

Eleven points, after all—in an era when 25 are handed out for a race victory—counts for nothing when there are eight grands prix remaining and 200 more points to play for.

The four winners' trophies collected by Rosberg, the championship leader, and the five claimed by Hamilton prior to the month-long summer break were all pleasant additions to their respective trophy cabinets but little more than money in the bank in the grand scheme of things.



The title, with so little between the Mercedes drivers, was always bound to be won and lost in the second half of the campaign, with the final eight races representing a reset—a season within a season, if you will—rather than a conventional resumption of battle.

Among the benefits of such a finely poised championship battle, for both Hamilton and Rosberg, who have been just as evenly matched in their struggles as they have been in their brilliance, is that any mistakes made in the opening 11 races were rendered irrelevant.

And with a four-week gap between the Hungarian and Belgian grands prix, they have had plenty of time to identify and work on eradicating any weaknesses in their performances which have prevented them from operating at their best and have therefore stopped them from having a tighter grip on the crown.



For Hamilton, the Achilles' heel—particularly in recent months—has undoubtedly been in qualifying.

Since the 29-year-old's last pole position in the Spanish Grand Prix almost four months ago, every qualifying session for the No. 44 Mercedes has been marred by a problem of some sort.

And although his eliminations from Saturday sessions in German...
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