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Considering the Mercedes is a second a lap, at least, faster after than everyone else, and Mercedes were running their new parts (weren't they?) which claimed to give them ANOTHER second, Lewis should have been a minute ahead of everyone else (except Rosberg). He wasn't. He was only 23 secs ahead of Alonso who was held up by Vettel for most of that gap and then battled with Rosberg briefly.
Going by that, Lewis was surely just cruising all race long and couldn't really be considered DOTR. You've got to outperform the car for that. Even Rosberg seemed to be taking it easy, pushing only when necessary and apologising to the team for accidentally throwing that 1m 40.4 in there, almost 2 secs faster than Vettels fastest lap.
What the f#*k has F1 come to where no one is pushing 100%, it's like the rulemakers have forgotten this is a race. I want to see drivers pushing to the limits of the car! They can't do that with the current tyres and fuel situation.
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