Nico and Lewis on a private jet together today

Well if you make big announcements about big improvements for next season you should show better results next season. There are no visible signs of improvement, neither in race pace, from a psychological POV or anything.

Again, so? It means he hasn't delivered yet. Also, we're two races in. So hold your judgements for a bit.

That may need another explanation from my side: What annoys me is the cockiness in that statement. I feel like they(he) belittled Ferrari with that statement and the whole situation made him somehow look like a fool when they won a week later.

How is that belittling Ferrari? It was a bit of banter. That's like saying Lotus is belittling other teams with their twitter.

That whole "game on" thing annoys me. Cutout from an interview: "Hamilton, who had won seven of the previous eight grands prix, said he expects Mercedes will face competition for the rest of the season. “I don’t think it’s a one-off,” he said of Ferrari’s victory. “I don’t think they were lucky or it was a fluke.

In my opinion that is way more professional than saying "game on".

It's funny that you use Hamilton as an example for being more professional. Anyways, opinions are like assholes, yada yada.

Again, compare that to the statement from Hamilton. The whole "game on " thing again.

Opinions.

Well, Ferrari has done it in the past but has changed a lot this season, but it was refered to the Mercs. Spa 2014 comes to my head where Lewis complained a significant amount over radio, first because of the sliced rear, later because he wanted to retire but the team said no. Crybabies may be the wrong word, but the complaining over radio is significantly larger( maybe because we mostly hear Mercs and Ferrari in the team radio, Idk)

Every driver complains on the radio, you just hear whoever matters most.

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