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How much benefit would driving style be? I mean - assuming Hamilton, Rosberg and Schumacher all have different driving styles, how much benefit would Hamilton be, in terms of being a testbed of a new driving style?
I would probably put Schumi and Hamilton quite close to each other in driving style. Both are comfortable with the rear end moving around mid-corner whereas Rosberg seems to like the more planted, secure feeling like Vettel and Button.
I think the only asset apart from being stupid quick over a lap is the wider operating window.
Setup doesn´t have to be perfectly tuned for just those conditions.
If it´s a little so-so it´s manageable.
That´s where Button and Hamilton differs quite a lot even though Button on his best day can beat or come extremely close to Hamilton.
Edit: It´s funny because Rosberg is an old karting master but he haven´t retained any of that karting-driving style that we see so often in Hamilton´s driving.
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That's not what I'm asking. I'm talking of tyres. Also, liking similar things, such as being "comfortable with the rear end moving around mid-corner" as you say - doesn't mean the same driving style. Both can want for the same characteristics, but without having the same style.
Tyres and cars will naturally gravitate to a single style that can maximise them. For example, maybe the Mercedes, actually - to drive at its maximum, needs to be driven the way Hamilton drives a car. Maybe because of the car's characteristics, the car is intrinsically not able to achieve its optimum laptime with Rosberg's driving style.
One, because cars change and so they change how the tires affect the car.
If we look at Alonso and Massa for example, two completely different driving styles, Alonso puts on lock, let the car slide a little bit then the front end grips and away he goes.
Massa is much more fine in his driving, much less brutal.
I think Alonso even runs more steering ratio then any other driver. More steering ratio allows more aggressive-ness with the wheel without sending all of it into the car.
One destroyed the other in the first half then vice versa.
There´s too many variables because we are humans and tracks are so long that you can gain or loose time on different places depending on your own natural driving style that it´s impossible to say "this driving style gets the most out of the car"
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