To be fair to LH, I think that ‘blaming the team’ comes from the questions asked – driver gets asked what happened, states ‘I made a mistake, it’s my fault’. Press asks for further details, driver explains that the team asked him to change a setting and then he forgot to change the other setting. Press reports ‘Driver blames team’, which clearly doesn’t actually reflect the interview but is a juicier headline.
LH lost his first world championship because of that China incident where the team left him out too long and he didn’t insist on coming in. As a first year driver, that was excusable, now less so.
As I said, I think he’s a fantastic driver but not the overall package that FA is – that’s the disappointment – admittedly it’s against a very high standard but if LH’s legacy is to be recognised as one of the true greats then IMO he’s not measuring up right now.