The more I think about it, the more last year seems like an anomaly. Jenson has never before struggled when he's had a good car.
I think the team was very much focussed on Lewis last year, trying to give him exactly what he wanted. The main reason would have been because they knew that Lewis was looking elsewhere, and they didn't want to pay him a shedload of money to keep him. So the solution, from their point of view, was to make sure the car worked for him, and to give him the best possible shot at the WDC.
Of course, having the team's full attention doesn't necessarily help when the team is being incompetent, but I think that Jenson, as the leading driver, is much more likely to get them to calm down and just do the job.
Edited by BillBald, 31 March 2013 - 13:47.