Which Mercedes Driver Has Had Worse Luck in 2014: Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg

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Published: October 2, 2014

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"We don't want to have the spin that the championship was decided because one car let the driver down," said Toto Wolff, the boss of Mercedes' motor racing activities, to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson after last month's Singapore Grand Prix. 

The Austrian was speaking with mixed feelings having just witnessed Lewis Hamilton take an ultimately comfortable victory—his seventh of the year—at the Marina Bay street circuit in a race which began with the retirement of Nico Rosberg, who started the day as the world championship leader but ended it as the chaser through no fault of his own.



It seems odd that a team that has won 11 of this season's 14 races thus far should be so beset with worry, yet that is the price Mercedes have paid for having the fastest car on the grid but also one of the most brittle.

The worst-case scenario for the Silver Arrows is that the destiny of the drivers' title will be decided by luck and reliability.

And it would be particularly cruel on the team—not to mention their drivers—if that were to be the case, with Mercedes playing an instrumental role in producing one of the most compelling, intense Formula One seasons in recent memory by openly promoting equality and hard, fair competition between Hamilton and Rosberg. 



But whoever finishes second in the standings when the final chequered flag of the campaign falls in next month's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will—even with five races still to go—have few problems identifying the key moments which prevented them from claiming the crown. 

The general consensus is that had reliability not been an issue in 2014, Hamilton would already have one hand on the title.

A hypothetical drivers' championship produced by The Telegraph's Daniel Johnson, however, attempted to dispel the myth, with the writer's race-by-race estimations resulting in the British drive...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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