lewis hamilton has 38 points in the Formula 1 world championship. His partner, George Russell, 18. Numbers that demonstrate the superiority of the seven-time world champion on Sundays. On Saturdays, in qualifying, it’s another story: the young driver wins 3-0.
And that, believes the expilot damon hill, which is the beginning of the end for Lewis. He has assured that perhaps he is losing that “instinctive speed” that all pilots need to succeed in the Great Circus.
This has commented on the official F1 podcast: “Niki Lauda saw Alain Prost arrive. When the older, more experienced driver is faced with the speed of a young newcomer, he may either mope or devote his energy to making sure the race result is what matters.”
“As you get older, and if you’ve also had accidents, your brain says, ‘I need to be more circumspect.’ So the instinctive and unconscious speed may have started to leave you,” he says.
Cree Hill, F1 champion in 1996, who now the “hard work” falls to Russellthe young man from Mercedes: “He has to do the hard work, Lewis doesn’t. They know that if Hamilton is given the opportunity, he will be back in top form and will be able to deliver extraordinary races.”
“Lewis is very good at finding this out and he’s thinking, ‘I’ll let you do the hard work, George, because It is exhausting‘. Lewis’s strategy is to remove distractions and let his time come. Even with Valtteri Bottas, Hamilton took a laid-back approach at the start of each season. He lets things play out and eventually, when he sees an opportunity, he steps on the gas and disappears into the distance,” he details.
At the moment Hamilton beats Russell in the drivers’ standings. Not in ranking. But the reality is that most Mercedes points They have been added by the seven-time champion.
