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At this point in his career and with the current state of affairs at Mercedes, Ham has lost his desire and consequently patience to think through and execute a good race. He only wakes up if the car is capable of winning, anything lesser doesn't matter. That's perfectly ok for someone that has achieved everything in F1 and only thing that motivates him is the opportunity to win. But to take his washed out qualifying (other than singapore) and race performaces and justify there were other reasons why he didn't perform and blame everything under the sun, is a moot point. He has had off weekends in his prime even when he had a car to win. So dropping shoulders when the car isn't to his liking, isn't out of ordinary.
At this point in his career and with the current state of affairs at Mercedes, Ham has lost his desire and consequently patience to think through and execute a good race.
Apart from his entire mid season, whereby he showed plenty of desire, banked two wins, 4th in Canada/Austria and two more podiums in Spain & Hungary. I think those results show he can execute good races.
Hamilton didnt have a good race but it was deemed to be bad when we all saw he was on softs at the start. That`s why, I dont blame him for the bad performance today. If he had mediums and pitted around the same lap with Russel and still finished behind Russell, then I could say that his performance was bad
Baffling strategy from Mercedes to be honest. Gamble with Medium and Hard across both, rather than the soft that clearly wasn't really going to last long enough considering the number of medium shod drivers behind them.
