I don't remember Hamilton ever letting Rosberg through, i remember him refusing to comply despite the team telling him Nico would stop again.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 May 2020, 08:40I'm sure things like Vettel's approach to team orders - happy to take advantage, loathe to reciprocate - doesn't help. It's all very well saying that your team mate didn't play by the rules in some situation or other, but you start to sound like a schoolboy if you're not careful: "he started it, so I'm not playing with him!".
Compare to Hamilton's reaction when asked to play nicely with Bottas - maybe the difference is that he knows he has Bottas beaten. Against Rosberg he was harder (although did play by the rules mostly). Perhaps this is a useful indication of a driver's view of his relationship with his team mate - if he feels comfortable then he is nicer to them. Look at any number of midfield intra-team battles and see team mates refusing to let each other by. Lots of tension between two guys who think they deserve to be ahead, or hate their team mate perhaps.
Maybe in Vettel's mind he doesn't think he has Leclerc beaten, or maybe he's just selfish (in the racing driver sense of the word) and doesn't want to give up any advantage. Certainly he never played fair with Webber either so there is some history there.
And of course Abu Dhabi 2016 though understandable it was.
Rosberg let Hamilton through once in Monaco where he was very slow and held his attack all the way back in 2013 Sepang (still Ross Brawn making the calls).
Vettel let Charles through at Spa, but not at Russia.
Charles let Vettel through at Russia(under the promise of pay back), and a bunch of other races that took them both nowhere, also held back in Australia.
Also not an intentional team order but he was pissed(understandably) after Singapore.
In Monza Vettel gave the slipstream but shenanigans ensued before he could get pay back, not fully Charles fault but he only overtook Seb quite late.
Overall terrible job administrating the drivers by Ferrari.