The crap Hambone routinely says on-air is only explicable if his goal is to get the team to be more responsive to his needs by publicly humiliating them.
I think he is actually sandbagging now to give Mercedes bogus data that they cannot use for development of next year’s car. Ever since he was eliminated from the championship, he has been looking to next year.
I give him three or four races at Ferrari before the Italian media and Tifosi throw him to the wolves.