What a sphericalobjects-up over Hamilton's last stop. It seems to me they had 4 options:
- Shadow Rosberg and rely on Hamilton being faster in an equal car
- Go longer, then choose options for the last stint and hope to win with better tyres
- Nurse the existing set to the finish
- Go longer, lose a load of time, then put on primes and hope Hamilton could reel in Rosberg by over a second a lap with only slightly newer tyres to help him.
They chose the worst of the four.
I feel LH is getting too much of a say in the strategy decisions. It really can't be feasible to drive an F1 car at racing speeds and weigh up all the pros and cons of a strategy decision. Far better to have the race engineer do that and dictate the decision. It seems to me that the relationship between LH and his race engineer just hasn't been solid enough for that in 2015.