So this was a weird one. Hamilton here was referring to the drivers briefing, held with all teams. Is he saying here that "strategy" is being predetermined among all teams so as to produce a specific, desired outcome? Maybe I'm reading a little too much into it, but also there are some odd events that have occurred over the past few years. Like Hamilton being denied a championship in what felt, for all the world, a contrived win for Max. Or Russell going long on a set of tyres for P1, and then somehow being underweight, and by a strangely large margin that seemed far greater than would be explained by a lack of marble pickup on the return to the pits. Then there's all the weird shit that seems to be missing from live broadcasts for seemingly contrived reasoning, yet would have obviously been broadcast...* perhaps prior to Ben Sulayem's ascendance to directorship. Or maybe even prior thereto, perhaps around the time Liberty Media gained such a controlling stake.

Perhaps this is more theory than conspiracy. All the same, it does seem odd that any sort of agreement would be made at the drivers briefing.

* Things like the clipping and power delivery stuff, like that which caused Alonso to suddenly shoot forward into a corner at Baku and almost write the car off