Lewis Hamilton has won his home race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for the 6th time in his career. Valtteri Bottas ended up a disappointed second, followed by Charles Leclerc in third.
Hamilton was ‘on it’ at Silverstone. Trading fastest laps with a team mate who was on better rubber. Then he bangs in a fastest lap on 32 lap old Hard tyres. That’s really got to make Bottas question himself but I think he was just ‘unplayable’ on Sunday to quote other sports.
Reliability? Lewis? Don´t think so, he´s probably one of the fastest ever but consistency has never been his strong point. But nowadays with current Mercedes domination and also the formula forcing drivers to race several seconds slower than they could to manage tires and fuel, driver mistakes are minimized. He´s the fastest on the grid, with the fastest car, so he does not even need to push himself to the limit that often wich again minimize driver mistakes.Jolle wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 15:25let's put in other words: Hamilton has reached a level of perfection never seen before in F1. At the moment he's the most complete driver in the history of the sport. The car control of Clark and Senna, the endurance of Schumacher, the economical driving of Prost, the persistence of Mansell and Villeneuve combined with he reliability of Hamilton.marvin78 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 14:44That is just wrong. They all do in the heat. Mostly Hamiltons mistakes are not ruining races but he does do mistakes. For example he did several of them in Austria and in Canada.
That's not against Hamilton, but it's just not true that there is a driver without mistakes. They all do it, they all have several of them in every race. Let's not make a god, where is no one. He is a human. A very good racer but a human.
And in that special scene it was very clear to me, that it was not over. Showing the crowd was just bad.
Well, that´s going a bit too far for a camera switch error on a broadcast wich perform hundreds. I also screamed when they went to the crowd, but it must be pretty difficult following the race while watching all the cameras that can go live next.FrukostScones wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 14:46haha, good laugh.NathanOlder wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 14:15I get why people were annoyed about the camera cutting to the crowd.
But people are missing the fact that the move was done and dusted, then the camera cut away. 99% of the time, that's fine.
The problem on sunday was as soon as the move was done, Lewis made a mistake and let Bottas back in, Lewis making a mistake never happens so the director had every right to cut away and show the British crowd cheering on the British driver taking the lead of the British grand Prix.
FOM TV director is a disgrace and we all know it.
"Ferrari has a new leader," said the authoritative La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"Leclerc is combative and energetic and has finally captured the heart of the Ferrari fans," it added, describing Vettel as "again disastrous" last Sunday.
"Vettel has shown that he is not the driver that Ferrari wants. It is now clear that something is no longer working."
Winning 53 of his last 100 races and only crashing out once, is pretty reliable.Andres125sx wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 16:12Reliability? Lewis? Don´t think so, he´s probably one of the fastest ever but consistency has never been his strong point. But nowadays with current Mercedes domination and also the formula forcing drivers to race several seconds slower than they could to manage tires and fuel, driver mistakes are minimized. He´s the fastest on the grid, with the fastest car, so he does not even need to push himself to the limit that often wich again minimize driver mistakes.Jolle wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 15:25let's put in other words: Hamilton has reached a level of perfection never seen before in F1. At the moment he's the most complete driver in the history of the sport. The car control of Clark and Senna, the endurance of Schumacher, the economical driving of Prost, the persistence of Mansell and Villeneuve combined with he reliability of Hamilton.marvin78 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 14:44
That is just wrong. They all do in the heat. Mostly Hamiltons mistakes are not ruining races but he does do mistakes. For example he did several of them in Austria and in Canada.
That's not against Hamilton, but it's just not true that there is a driver without mistakes. They all do it, they all have several of them in every race. Let's not make a god, where is no one. He is a human. A very good racer but a human.
And in that special scene it was very clear to me, that it was not over. Showing the crowd was just bad.
Don´t take me wrong, IMO he´s the best on current grid, at least while Max and Charles continue proving their talent on next seasons and specially when they fight for titles. Right now Lewis is the reference. But consistency has never been his strong point
If you want to mention someone as a consistency reference, IMHO it´s Alonso. He always get the best of his car, no matter if it´s one of the best or a poor midfielder, with any car, and also at every race. He´s the definition of consistency on a racing driver, he always delivers, and I´m using always consciously, there will be some exception on his long career obviously, but no other driver get close to his percentage in this aspect I think
It always happens. Shame he was consistent in his toxic attitude which ended up in him moving from team to team.
Leaving the track in certain corners goes unpunished, because doing so is considered punishment itself (usually because it's slower than taking the corner normally).
As far as I'm aware overtaking off the track is only allowed if the person you overtook was off the track as well.
Some thing can't be dumbed-down to black or white, for example.
Fernando was very consistent, incredibly intense all through a race, but Lewis is the most consistent driver there has ever been in F1. I don't think there are any actual stats? but he hardly ever crashes, i mean Canada FP2 was a huge surprise. Even in his first years he hardly ever had contact, Max Mosley had to resort to penalising him (Ron) when he didn't have any contact!!Andres125sx wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 16:12
Reliability? Lewis? Don´t think so, he´s probably one of the fastest ever but consistency has never been his strong point. But nowadays with current Mercedes domination and also the formula forcing drivers to race several seconds slower than they could to manage tires and fuel, driver mistakes are minimized. He´s the fastest on the grid, with the fastest car, so he does not even need to push himself to the limit that often wich again minimize driver mistakes.
Don´t take me wrong, IMO he´s the best on current grid, at least while Max and Charles continue proving their talent on next seasons and specially when they fight for titles. Right now Lewis is the reference. But consistency has never been his strong point
If you want to mention someone as a consistency reference, IMHO it´s Alonso. He always get the best of his car, no matter if it´s one of the best or a poor midfielder, with any car, and also at every race. He´s the definition of consistency on a racing driver, he always delivers, and I´m using always consciously, there will be some exception on his long career obviously, but no other driver get close to his percentage in this aspect I think
I think it is a fair analysis. The thing that I have seen with Lewis over the years is that, he has disregard for some circuits as they are his bogey circuits like Bahrain and Russia.Andres125sx wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 16:12Reliability? Lewis? Don´t think so, he´s probably one of the fastest ever but consistency has never been his strong point. But nowadays with current Mercedes domination and also the formula forcing drivers to race several seconds slower than they could to manage tires and fuel, driver mistakes are minimized. He´s the fastest on the grid, with the fastest car, so he does not even need to push himself to the limit that often wich again minimize driver mistakes.Jolle wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 15:25let's put in other words: Hamilton has reached a level of perfection never seen before in F1. At the moment he's the most complete driver in the history of the sport. The car control of Clark and Senna, the endurance of Schumacher, the economical driving of Prost, the persistence of Mansell and Villeneuve combined with he reliability of Hamilton.marvin78 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 14:44
That is just wrong. They all do in the heat. Mostly Hamiltons mistakes are not ruining races but he does do mistakes. For example he did several of them in Austria and in Canada.
That's not against Hamilton, but it's just not true that there is a driver without mistakes. They all do it, they all have several of them in every race. Let's not make a god, where is no one. He is a human. A very good racer but a human.
And in that special scene it was very clear to me, that it was not over. Showing the crowd was just bad.
Don´t take me wrong, IMO he´s the best on current grid, at least while Max and Charles continue proving their talent on next seasons and specially when they fight for titles. Right now Lewis is the reference. But consistency has never been his strong point
If you want to mention someone as a consistency reference, IMHO it´s Alonso. He always get the best of his car, no matter if it´s one of the best or a poor midfielder, with any car, and also at every race. He´s the definition of consistency on a racing driver, he always delivers, and I´m using always consciously, there will be some exception on his long career obviously, but no other driver get close to his percentage in this aspect I think
I'm not quite sure how much more black and white can this get:dans79 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 18:06Leaving the track in certain corners goes unpunished, because doing so is considered punishment itself (usually because it's slower than taking the corner normally).
As far as I'm aware overtaking off the track is only allowed if the person you overtook was off the track as well.
Some thing can't be dumbed-down to black or white, for example.
shades of grey!
