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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Dec 23, 2020 12:29:06 GMT
Lewis Hamilton is a big reason the Mercedes is so fast - he's helped develop it to where it is. It's a shame he gets so little credit from many. His contemporaries (Leclerc, Vettel, Alonso etc.) and many ex-F1 World Champions have all said Hamilton is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) drivers of all-time. It's a fact of F1 that a driver in the fastest car often wins the World Championship, though Hamilton has won it in a slower car - and recently too. I think it was 2018 (and maybe the year before too) when the Ferrari's were faster than the Mercedes'. Hamilton matched two-time World Champion Alonso in his debut season. He's an outstanding driver with an incredible attention to detail - he can even take into account the wind speed and direction corner by corner. He has an amazing feel for the cars he drives. I'd argue 2020 was his strongest year - he left no stone unturned. There were races he won he shouldn't have, and that's what a World Champion does. I'm intrigued. How do you know that he takes the wind speed on each corner? S90% must be down to who has the fastest car He and his team have said so, at particular Grand Prix where wind has been a factor.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Dec 23, 2020 14:07:35 GMT
Lewis Hamilton is a big reason the Mercedes is so fast - he's helped develop it to where it is. It's a shame he gets so little credit from many. His contemporaries (Leclerc, Vettel, Alonso etc.) and many ex-F1 World Champions have all said Hamilton is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) drivers of all-time. It's a fact of F1 that a driver in the fastest car often wins the World Championship, though Hamilton has won it in a slower car - and recently too. I think it was 2018 (and maybe the year before too) when the Ferrari's were faster than the Mercedes'. Hamilton matched two-time World Champion Alonso in his debut season. He's an outstanding driver with an incredible attention to detail - he can even take into account the wind speed and direction corner by corner. He has an amazing feel for the cars he drives. I'd argue 2020 was his strongest year - he left no stone unturned. There were races he won he shouldn't have, and that's what a World Champion does. I'm intrigued. How do you know that he takes the wind speed on each corner? S90% must be down to who has the fastest car I'd say that 90% of it being the car is conservative. in a sport with fractional gains, Hamilton probably has no more than 1% or 2% over Bottas, but as we see in so many sports, the absolute best is not actually that much better than the opposition. Being an all round excellent racer as well as being at one with the team as a whole is where Hamilton is rated so highly, we saw the same thing with Schumacher at Ferrari where the combination of people made them unbeatable. The Merc is the best car, but it's not that much better than the Red Bull hence why Verstappen came close to finishing higher than Bottas.
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