Race Pace / Championship Season
Race Pace: When Rosberg has been outpaced at the first two GPs (he was faster in the first stint, but Lewis did very well to stretch the middle stint as much, and as such would have won the race without SC)
Championship Season:
In 2 GPs, Lewis leads 2-0, 50 to 36, and Lewis outscored and outraced Rosberg in 2013 despite being all-new to the team.
You did not give that post much thought, mate.
Yeah those things aren't the same. Race pace is the ability to keep up a general, consistent or consistently-improving speed to maximize your points takeaway from a single event. Putting together a championship season is orchestrating a bid for glory at the end of the year with full willingness to sacrifice the smaller glory of GP wins. A driver with great race pace will be trying to nick that last position on the final lap come hell or high water. A driver with his eye on the bigger prize will take what he can get, but he knows that taking 6 points for finishing 7th is better than no points by risking a crash with the guy in 6th on the last lap. He knows that there are times when it's better to be slow and steady and that discretion is the better part of valor. Neither strategy is better than the other 100% of the time and it's all conducive to whatever the tires, engines, weather, electronics, and other drivers happen to be doing that weekend.
Neither of those two facets are anywhere near as exciting single lap pace and overtaking ability, but if your goal is to be successful first and exciting second, they're the right way to go. We've had year after year after year of questioning Vettel's ablity to overtake, solely because the package of him and his car were so good he didn't have to show us if he was good at overtaking, which is a fundamental skill all F1 drivers must be at least reasonably good at. That's ridiculous, and it speaks to the admirable level of his other skills that they could overcome a deficiency that essential to a driver's skill set. It's like wondering whether an English professor knows what a compound word is because the things he's written are so amazing he might not need to know at all.
The modern era of F1 flatters Hamilton's driving style. Blown engines and serious accidents are largely a thing of the past, things that would've likely foiled Hamilton's championship bids had this been 1975 or 1982 or 1993. Hamilton's the better driver in every exciting aspect of racing and Rosberg's the better driver in the boring aspects, but for most of F1's history, the dull parts like making sure the car gets home in one piece is what won championships. It's not the case anymore. We're in an era where drivers can trust the cars won't fall apart when they try to hit Mach 1. An era where they know that outside of Monaco they aren't going to be killed if they misjudge the apex. An era where braking too late doesn't mean you're going into the trees, the lake, the houses, the stands, the marshals, the car park, the fields, the armco, the tire barriers, the gravel traps, or anything. It just means you lose a second or two dipping your wheels onto the Walmart parking lot outside of every corner and you can still go on to score 25 points after making a mistake that would've cost you dearly for the previous 90% of the history of our sport. With Rosberg and Hamilton there's a Sheckter/Villeneuve thing going on, but in an era where nothing is any better for Scheckter and a dozen things are better for Villeneuve.
Hamilton will go 1:20.8 nine laps in a row and then 1:23.6. Rosberg will go 1:21 flat 10 laps in a row. Neither is better than the other at every race in every country in every condition.