What a blah ending to the season. Seems like Red Bull are going to stick around and Lotus is finally going to change into Renault.

 

does anyone else think that Mercedes gave Hami bad strategy to give Nico the win to keep him happy and stay in the team? since Hami already won the championship

 

^^Dont think Merc would do something like that. These 2 drivers, these 2 cars are so close that sometimes the margins are in favor of ROS.

Watch ROS winning pole lap. This guy is pushing this machine so fast around the track & toggling through diff screens at the time, checking sector times, etc etc. Truly both ROS & HAM are very close in times w/HAM just that much better

 

I agree with MinusPervious. Hami has said he just hasn't felt comfortable with the car after the Singapore fiasco, so there's that as well.

 

My guess/hope was that Lewis was rope-a-doping Nico into having confidence in the offseason, so that Lewis could beat him in the first 5 races next year and have it sting a little more

I really want to see how Toro Rosso is going to do next year with a its young and really good drivers, the Red Bull-ish chassis and the Ferrari engine that, at the end of the year, got the Ferraris awful close to the Mercedes. I would have liked to see how Sainz would have done without all the Renault fail.

 

Somehow Ferrari got the FIA to approve the Toro Rosso team running 2015 spec engines for 2016, when the FIA just mandated that all teams needed to be running 2016 spec engines not too long ago. Funny how that happens.

 

ferrari = FIA