All the F1 sites are embroidering this story for clicks. The most interesting comments I've seen on this came IIRC from Motorsport.
The pith was that Hamilton and Verstappen need to swap tactics.
Max's standard approach is to go for everything - and when you don't have the best car, that is the only way you will stand a chance of nicking a championship from similarly skilled driver who does.
On the other hand, when Lewis was comfortably winning the championship and a 50-50 situation arose, he would always back off - in a situation like last week's, that would have meant possibly finishing with 8 points fewer than Max, a better outcome than the considerable risk of a DNF (or in Lewis's mind, hoping for a opportunity to pass the other car later in the race. When the other car is Max's, that hope is in vain - with a better car, he will not see Max again until the the race is over.
Lewis has already adopted Max'x old ways. Max needs to go into Hamilton mode, let Lewis have the 50-50's and beat him over the season with overall superiority.
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