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For some concrete numbers based on more than speculation:

Are you an eye surgeon?

So they have to run inters all the time? Even amateur spec racing uses slicks.

I’m 12 years old and what is this?

How about we start by winning some fucking elections.

Most of what you’re saying is value judgments based on his actions, so I’ll just discuss the objective events.

Any competitor would.

I don’t see how you conclude that Hamilton’s goal was for his teammate to crash. It was painfully obvious that he wanted Verstappen and Vettel to overtake Rosberg, and there’s zero evidence he wanted Rosberg to crash.

Ferrari was rightfully criticized because they wanted their #2 driver to give up positions to their #1 driver to maximize WDC chances for the latter, rather than letting them go racing. Notably, they never did so at a decisive event between the two drivers (i.e. they never did it when it mathematically eliminated

Rosberg did not hold station for the team. That is a ridiculous notion. Look at Austria. He stayed in 2nd because he knew he did not need 1st to win the title.

Without getting too philosophical, I think the particular contractual arrangements and obligations can be distinguished from what makes common sense.

Is your job only to win races, but not pursue the championship? Hamilton did the only thing he could legally do to attempt to win the WDC. He already had the race won, nothing else was within his power.

Vettel might have refused to overtake Rosberg, though it’s impossible to tell for sure.

I think we just disagree on that. If your opponent chooses a very aggressive pit strategy that forces you to cover by pitting early and releasing into traffic, is that unsporting as well?

I agree that Mercedes had an interest, but it was an interest of little substance. Adding a single 1-2 finish to the record books is completely out of proportion in significance to a World Driver’s Championship.

It seems to me that you are suggesting Formula 1 is not a sport. While there are certainly powerful commercial interests, I do not see how the existence of a World Driver’s Championship is consistent with this view. I assure you no racing driver enters the sport with the aspiration of glorifying a manufacturer.

I don’t understand what makes the tactic dirty. It was fully within the rules, it took tremendous skill to execute (specifically, to slow the pack while staying out of reach on the straights), and it was fully compatible with a sporting spirit because he was already in first place; there were no further racing

You could be right, and regardless I can’t work out how that instruction was anything other than inappropriate and impossible for any serious competitor to follow in the context of what was at stake.

The importance of the two are so hilariously out of proportion that it beggars belief that a 1-2 finish in this particular race mattered to the team more than letting their drivers fight for the championship.

That is a misrepresentation of the relationship between drivers and teams in a competitive sport. It’s not purely a business in a marketplace; there are clear sporting goals. The team had achieved one of the two paramount sporting goals of Formula 1 and its drivers were competing for the other.