pokerman wrote:
Prema wrote:
Signing the top drivers by the side of top tams is rather the standard, so I do not see why would you attribute any special significance to Merc signing Hamilton. I don't know about that part of being obvious that Merc was to dominate in the Hybrid era (at one point it had to be obvious), but you impress me as someone trying to attribute a kind of extraordinary significance of Hamilton to the development of the supreme machinery that the Merc turned out to be. I really have not seen anything of any sort of evidence that any of the drivers had really been contributing to the designs and engineering of the hybrid era PU's and cars while at the same time thundering around in those pre-hybrid era cars and fighting for their WDC points. And I do not understand where the hack did Rosberg disappear in this regard anyway? Why are we talking "Hamilton" and not "Rosberg" to even start with? Just because Hamilton was the faster one of the two and won more than Rosberg?
Anyway. We the fans of F1 drivers have this privilege to believe in anything about our heroes, anything which would make our day. Personally, I believe that, if Hamilton stayed in McLaren he would still be a 1x WDC and Rosberg a multiple WDC (unless he got a faster driver for his teammate). And it would not make a slightest difference to Merc in regard of what machinery their 1'000 engineers, mechanics and designers were to churn out back then, as well as today.
You do know that I'm making comparison with Schumacher at Ferrari and pray tell who else Mercedes could have signed that would have suited their remit, why did it become so important to sign Hamilton if basically they never needed him in the first place, I did explain the scenario that was playing out?
Oh yes, I do know that you are making that comparison between Schumacher in Ferrari and Hamilton in Mercedes - in terms of bringing the team from nothing to everything. But all I am saying is that, besides this bare fact that both teams prior to these respective drivers' arrival were not winning anything, just like so in the case of Vettel and RBR, you got NOTHING that to impress us with as what exactly did Hamilton contribute so significantly (if in any way) to the development of the Merc supreme PU and the entire machinery at large, all that while he was busy racing in that pre-hybrid era car. And so much so that without him arriving, the Mercedes' PU dominance perhaps would not had happened. I mean, rally. Look, then I'd say, Rosberg did it. He made it happen. Why not? He was there too.
And yes, all you got here is your "scenario" that Mercedes signed Hamilton. The Magical Hamilton, I presume.
And if you really still wonder why a top team like Mercedes would sign Hamilton... just as same as why McLaren would sign Alonso, and Ferrari sign Alonso and then Vettel, and so on. They are the best and fastest F1 drivers that are available to them at the given time. Does that make a sense to you?
Yes as much sense as Ferrari signing Schumacher.