Gone either way at that corner or the whole race ? I mean yeah , Rosberg could ' ve blown his engine from the lead . If you ' re talking about that particular corner , it wasn ' t going to happen . The braking point was fast approaching . By the time Hamilton gets ahead , he already has to brake with more speed to dissipate . Rosberg had this one covered , despite the incorrect engine mode . Maybe Hamilton would ' ve overtaken Rosberg in the race afterwards . I would normally concede this but I put the blame on Hamilton for the suicide attempt . This is why I kept him 2 nd . I take issue with ' suicide attempt '. Hamilton made the correct decision at the time to go up the inside , and Rosberg made the correct decision to defend , right up until the moment when Hamilton was along side , which coincided with when Rosberg was less than one cars ' width from the edge of the track . It was at this point Rosberg became in the wrong , but the speed with which the event happened meant that he had no way of reacting , especially with the unusually large closing speed . So with that I ' d say that technically it was Rosberg ' s fault , but the situation was so perfectly unlikely that it is not punishable . I think that if Lewis were one meter further forward , Rosberg would have had the chance to see Hamilton and not close the door too late and Hamilton would have likely passed , or if he had been one meter back , Hamilton would have been forced to back out of the move . Rules allowed radio calls for reliability issues . True , and the first message telling him to not use the gear 5 th ? was fine , but I recall that the commentators ' opinion was that the message telling him to shift through the gear was contrary to the rules . Again , the rule was total bullshit , but the penalty was according to the rule . Ok this part is insane . He got pushed under braking which forced him to go deep . Literally forced him . Anthony Davidson said so as well , this is not just my opinion . Hmm . Rewatching the event , Max did definitely move by some amount in the braking zone , but Rosberg could have made a much more effective attempt of making the corner . In isolation , I ' d be inclined to believe that Rosberg was forced , but with the incident in Austria makes me think that Nico tried to do the same thing again , and was again penalised for it . If Rosberg had tried to turn , locked up , then continued straight , it would be a different situation entirely .