You can be right and also say things in the wrong way and publicly humiliate people in a way that is detrimental in the long run. That’s Brundle’s point, not that he was wrong to be frustrated.
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That's true, but I'd argue Hamilton's frustration was justified by how obvious the strategy call was and the act the delay could (and did, as things turned out) cost him and Ferrari a chance of a better result.
Actually no, his frustration was caused by him not understanding the context. He assumed he had more pace than Leclerc because he was on Mediums. But actually Leclerc still had more pace than Hamilton. There should have been a conversation with Lecerlc but they were dealing with Hamilton’s tantrum.
The whole thing was a mess, but one of the biggest parts of that mess is that communication is really bad at Ferrari. Hamilton and Leclerc have both contributed to building that atmosphere of poor communication. Publicly humiliating people will continue to make it worse.
Hamilton caught up to Leclerc quickly. I'd argue the laps behind (overheating tyres and losing laps of faster performance) is why he couldn't build a gap afterwards. It was entirely avoidable by Ferrari.
It was as much a result of Leclerc slowing down as Hamilton’s quicker tyres. Yes, he lost some laps of faster performance but he was never going to break away from the faster driver on the day. The answer wasn’t necessarily to let Hamilton through. It was to ask Leclerc to go faster.
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