NathanOlder wrote:
Well im just looking at the stats. And in my opinion stats are factual, and opinions can be wrong. And the stats say Lewis has pretty much levelled Senna's record in pretty much the same amount of time. Which considering Lewis idolised Senna if pretty crazy to believe it's actually happened.
Hamilton is awesome, but I think he is being flattered (slightly) by these types of comparisons.
Pretty much levelled? They have parity on the number of races, podiums and wins but Senna is ahead on everything else, and that is not taking any circumstances into account.
-Senna not starting in a top team vs. Hamilton starting in a potentially Championship winning McLaren.
-Senna having to compete with Prost in his most dominant car vs. Hamilton competing with Rosberg at Mercedes. Rosberg is no Prost, and if he were, Hamilton would have far fewer victories to show.
-Senna competing in an era with much higher attrition / poor reliability. Senna retired 50 times vs. Hamilton's 19. Look at Senna's wins to finished ratio of 41/111 (36.94%) against Hamilton's 40/141 (28.37%). Yes, one can argue that Senna made more mistakes, and some of those DNF's are his own doing, but there is no question he had more DNF's that were not of his own making.
Hamilton is probably going to win at least 2 more championships uncontested, this year and likely next as well. Suddenly he will start being compared to Michael Schumacher - let's make a thread for that