Lewis Hamilton

[zebra]

sparta6 said:

???
We were invited to Hockenheim - it was refreshing to witness some tier 2 cars getting good results.

It's great for the sport.

Don’t change mate; I enjoy your bitterness and irrational hate.

[vdn]

zebra said:

sparta6 said:

???
We were invited to Hockenheim - it was refreshing to witness some tier 2 cars getting good results.

It's great for the sport.

Don’t change mate; I enjoy your bitterness and irrational hate.

[sparta6]

zebra said:

sparta6 said:

???
We were invited to Hockenheim - it was refreshing to witness some tier 2 cars getting good results.

It's great for the sport.

Don’t change mate; I enjoy your bitterness and irrational hate.

Hate that F1 is enjoying close battles again ?

[mikal83]

sparta6 said:

zebra said:

sparta6 said:

???
We were invited to Hockenheim - it was refreshing to witness some tier 2 cars getting good results.

It's great for the sport.

Don’t change mate; I enjoy your bitterness and irrational hate.

Hate that F1 is enjoying close battles again ?

Between tier 2 cars??

[sparta6]

mikal83 said:

sparta6 said:

zebra said:

sparta6 said:

???
We were invited to Hockenheim - it was refreshing to witness some tier 2 cars getting good results.

It's great for the sport.

Don’t change mate; I enjoy your bitterness and irrational hate.

Hate that F1 is enjoying close battles again ?

Between tier 2 cars??

Between Tier 1 drivers

[Bo_apex]

sparta6 said:

mikal83 said:

sparta6 said:

zebra said:

sparta6 said:

???
We were invited to Hockenheim - it was refreshing to witness some tier 2 cars getting good results.

It's great for the sport.

Don’t change mate; I enjoy your bitterness and irrational hate.

Hate that F1 is enjoying close battles again ?

Between tier 2 cars??

Between Tier 1 drivers

Looks like we're going to have to wait until 2020 for the big battle

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autosport/11623...

[CustardOnChips]

sparta6 said:

Between Tier 1 drivers

Max is good. But not Tier 1 until hes won more than a few races.

[vdn]

Bo_apex said:

Looks like we're going to have to wait until 2020 for the big battle

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autosport/11623...

Do you mean 2021? Top 3 at summer break means Max stays at Red Bull another year...

I think.

[anonymous-user]

CustardOnChips said:

Max is good. But not Tier 1 until hes won more than a few races.

Rubbish. Max is the best driver of 2019 according to many in the paddock.

Completely destroyed his teammate and is close to taking 2nd in the Championship from a car that is far superior.

Tier 1 +

[37chevy]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

Rubbish. Max is the best driver of 2019 according to many in the paddock.

Completely destroyed his teammate and is close to taking 2nd in the Championship from a car that is far superior.

Tier 1 +

I’d have pit him number 1 until the last race....Lewis showed a new level. Honours even going into the mid season break I think. It will be interesting to see who can take another step up in a few weeks

[vdn]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

CustardOnChips said:

Max is good. But not Tier 1 until hes won more than a few races.

Max is the best driver of 2019 according to many in the paddock.

...

This sounds like personal opinion dressed up as something else. Who are these 'many'? - can you link some quotes and statements saying as much? By the way; I'm not disagreeing with the assertion - just that I've not seen 'many' people say that at all. Rosberg said something along those lines but then changed his mind again...

Post 'em up!

[NRS]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

Rubbish. Max is the best driver of 2019 according to many in the paddock.

Completely destroyed his teammate and is close to taking 2nd in the Championship from a car that is far superior.

Tier 1 +

Rubbish. Lewis is the best driver of 2019 according to many in the paddock.

Max just lucked into the 2nd best car on the grid, with Bottas being so poor he might be sacked then Max is also lucky he might get 2nd in the Championship. He's also massively lucky Ferrari have made such a mess of this season, between the drivers crashing, bad strategy or reliability problems. Basically he's just lucky to be where he is.

Am I doing it right?

[paulguitar]

NRS said:

Am I doing it right?

Yepo. They asre all just stupidly lucky and the best ones are the luckiest of the lot.

[anonymous-user]

I wonder if HAM will be remember as the greatest F1 driver ever when he retires..

[37chevy]

Thesprucegoose said:

I wonder if HAM will be remember as the greatest F1 driver ever when he retires..

One of the greatest? Yes. The greatest? Can’t possibly say that. I could narrow it down to Clark, Fangio, Schumacher, Senna and Hamilton though

[paulguitar]

37chevy said:

One of the greatest? Yes. The greatest? Can’t possibly say that. I could narrow it down to Clark, Fangio, Schumacher, Senna and Hamilton though

I agree with that, but I remove Senna and Schumacher from my 'best of all-time' list for 'red card' offenses.

And I say that as someone who has a framed photo of Senna on the living room wall.

Edited by paulguitar on Wednesday 7th August 00:58

[glazbagun]

I'd have Prost before Schumacher- raced against champion-level team mates and beat them, as has Hamilton.

Schumi, Vettel and I'm sure many others rarely had a top-drawer teammate to beat.

Edited by glazbagun on Wednesday 7th August 04:34

[heebeegeetee]

NRS said:

Rubbish. Lewis is the best driver of 2019 according to many in the paddock.

Max just lucked into the 2nd best car on the grid, with Bottas being so poor he might be sacked then Max is also lucky he might get 2nd in the Championship. He's also massively lucky Ferrari have made such a mess of this season, between the drivers crashing, bad strategy or reliability problems. Basically he's just lucky to be where he is.

Am I doing it right?

Yes, you're absolutely spot on. In fact the driver has no input or influence whatsoever, apart from all the things that go wrong. Car, tyres, pit wall strategy, when they're not right then its all the drivers fault.

I think that's how it goes.

[CustardOnChips]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

Rubbish. Max is the best driver of 2019 according to many in the paddock.

Completely destroyed his teammate and is close to taking 2nd in the Championship from a car that is far superior.

Tier 1 +

Horner and his band of pundits don't count as many in the paddock.

[bobbo89]

37chevy said:

One of the greatest? Yes. The greatest? Can’t possibly say that. I could narrow it down to Clark, Fangio, Schumacher, Senna and Hamilton though

I cant see how you can ever have 'The Greatest' or 'GOAT' as you have to judge the driver based on the era they were driving in. Hamilton is already one of the greatest and whilst he's broken records and will continue to break records I cant see how you can ever elevate him beyond that and put him above drivers who raced in eras of massively less safe cars and much fewer races each year.