Lewis Hamilton is already a world champion. This Thesis many observers after the fourth formula 1 race of the season, Hamilton has decided with his third victory of the Season. In fact, the Mercedes driver is currently the clear number one of the race series. However, he admits: a bit more voltage would not be wrong.
“to be Quite honest: I’m a Racer through and through. Especially in karting, you race a lot of wheel-to-wheel. This has always excited me. And that drives me in the morning out of bed,” says Hamilton. The current Situation was not, however, “the championship fight, I was hoping for”.
Hamilton is located in the formula 1 drivers ‘ championship in 2020, he could afford after four races already so far forward that a “DNF” without losing the top of the table. Even his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas is distant, mainly due to its failure at the recent Grand Prix.
Mercedes engineer warns that reliability is an issue!
Hamilton, not think, but still on target, says Mercedes engineer Andrew Shovlin: “I know how Lewis deals with such situations. He sees [the lead of] not as a buffer. It is still too early in the world Cup.”
The tire damage to the vehicle from Bottas, who has thrown him out of the points positions, be understood as a cautionary example. “This shows that anything can happen,” says Shovlin.
“It’s still early in the season, and we have a whole new car. Sooner or later, will oaks, reliability problems and including.” And could meet Hamilton.
How Hamilton is the ideal title fight imagines
The world Cup title favourite self would in any case like to have more sporting competition than the team-mates as the only direct opponent. He said in the press conference after the race, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc sitting.
“I would prefer, it’s a super would be a close fight with the two here, because this is what drives me. I think I can still make the necessary rounds. But it is not a close fight in Qualifying with Max or with Charles. I really hope that it is closer in the future.”
finally, in Silverstone it was anything other than closely: Hamilton drove with a track record on the Pole Position, Bottas scored three-tenths of a second behind the second place in Qualifying. Verstappen is the first tracker? To 1,022 seconds distant. The distance between Mercedes and the competition is huge.
Hamilton pushes on the regulations
“it’s the rules,” says Hamilton, and takes his point further: “the Bottom line is that you get rules of the pre-sets. And we as a Team have together done an outstanding job.”
“you can’t criticize my Team. It is not our fault. Because you have to contact the people who run the Sport, in order to afford in the future the rules better.”
There are certain “signs,” Hamilton says that the 2022 applicable regulations, a new, closer relationship of forces could form. Because Hamilton builds his hope for the formula 1 of the future.
He said: “Ross [Brawn] has shown us a car that is supposed to make everything tighter. Hopefully it is not as slow as a GP2 car. And hopefully we will see more kart racing similar racing.”
Considering the current Form of Hamilton’s and the fact that this year’s vehicles are used almost unchanged in the coming year, it could mean that Hamilton is still before the introduction of the new rules, an eight-time world champion.
This article was written by Stefan Ehlen
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