JimClarkeFan wrote:that's true, Hamilton is better than Jacques, but I also have a hard time seeing him win another World Championship if he doesn't starting thinking about strategy more. He needs to get smart quick, because at the moment he looks very one dimensional, extremely fast but no ability to think inside the cock pit and manipulate his race position whereas Vettel, Button and Alonso can.
If he keeps blaming his lack of a 'bubble' nothing will change. He needs to figure out that isn't his problem, and he needs to drop the attitude he's got at the moment. He has had a face on him since Monaco last year.
What's with all this bad critique after this first race though? Hamilton since the end of last year, has been obviously trying to show a better side to all of us.
He got the first pole of the season.
The ONLY mistake Hamilton made was to spin his wheels at the start of the race.
Everything else that went wrong in the race was his teams fault.
They made him wait too long for tyres after the first stint, then released him into a load of traffic.
They made him wait too long after the second stint, then did their double stop, which allowed Vettel to just jump into second without any hard work at all, while also having Mark Webber breathing down his neck at the re-start.
It was the teams strategy that slowed down his second stint and screwed him out of second place, not Hamiltons.
At the end of the day, he:
-Got a "bad" start that still landed him in second place and
-Was screwed out of second by events that were out of his control.
Is that really reason to be talking so morbid about his racing performance already? You're already digging a grave for him because he came third due to just bad luck?