Hamilton's worst ever start to an F1 season explained
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2024
- Lewis Hamilton has had a nightmare start to his valedictory Formula 1 campaign with Mercedes. So much so that you wouldn’t blame him if he’s counting down the days before he starts his new life as a Ferrari driver in 2025.
It’s been so bad, he rates it as worse not only than the previous two seasons under the current ground-effect regulations, but also than the early stages of his infamous 2009 season with McLaren - a comparison the stats back up.
Why is it going so badly, and is there a danger that he might 'check out' of his final season with Mercedes?
0:00 Hamilton's nightmare start
2:08 What's gone wrong
3:49 A better car for Hamilton?
6:09 The risk of 'quiet quitting'
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'Bono, my tires are gone. Also my downforce, predictability, and oil pressure.'
"Understood"
Underrated comment
You forgot to say talent
'We're looking into it'
Bono, I'm gone 😅
Merc struggling with budget limitation. Explanation complete
The biggest factor of them all
Huge handicap for the team that was able to spend it way to the top.
I would have expected better with Toto being a finance guy, he should be best knowing how to spend somewhere outside to get the desired result money can give in terms of performance. Honestly throwing oil into the ashes will not generate the fire😂
Mercedes can no longer win without regulations tailor made for them like in 2014. They’re an average team without it.
Excuses of mooney in 2024 LOL skill issue
I'd say he had already given up on Mercedes
As much as that’s understandable he needs to be far better than loosing interest for someone if his reputation
@@SiegfriedDerDrachentoter its just like when vettel was 15th every race, the car was bad but leclerc was always 5-7th
Very true. He is definitely past his prime but he should not be this bad. He has written this season off.
Maybe he'll be better at Ferrari but if they fuck up again he will loose motivation
@@SiegfriedDerDrachentoter How is that understandable? He's paid 40 million dollars to perform, that should be motivation enough.
@@therealquaid1694how much does he get for not caring?
Lance stroll ahead of him gets me every time 💀💀
Checo is also ahead of him and Alonso. Does that mean he's the 2nd or 3rd best driver in the world?
@@Euclides287Pastor Maldonado is still number 1
Competing with Stroll is the level Lewis currently reaches and reality shows it.
Should be for long so take full advantage of it.
Thank u
The downforce is not downforcing
Downforce is forcing him down...
F1 distilled: “If my favourite driver is struggling, it’s the car. If a driver I don’t like is struggling, he’s a bad driver. Or is in decline. Or…whatever.”
@@codyfrance2537Aye? How many drivers championships do you have ?
@@codyfrance2537LMAO you cute 😂😂
@@codyfrance2537 Yeah, dude. The guy with the most wins, podiums, points, is totally "never as good as advertised". He's so overrated, that if you take away his current stint with Merc, his McLaren days would still put him top 15-20 in points, podiums, and finishes. You are absolutely right.
Totally agree, it's like, we win because of Hamilton, but we lost because Merc can't build a car. I don't understand this logic. There is probably some decline, but we don't know how much given the fact that Russell been able to get more out of the same car (assuming it's the same car)
Pretty much. But they followed Hamilton's feedback and it didn't go well. I have no idea why you'd listen to a driver about the seat being too forward for example. That is related to many other parts of the car, a driver do not know what is best. That's the job of engineers. They didn't have a champion car before but it was way better than now.
So the budget cap killed Mercedes
mercedes is finished 3 years and now mclaren and aston martin is faster than them. russel needs to leave mercedes ASAP
@@James-gr5mxthat is a fair comment James if you are considering Russell to be as good as ( say) Leclerc. When Leclerc first started with Ferrari we all thought he would be on his 20th or 30th win by now, but that hasn’t happened either….
it is not only the budget cap but also the fact that if we're being honest, RB had the best aero concept for years now. It was the honda engine that kept them back. Merc was just too arrogant and busy celebrating for years without really noticing that.
But Mercedes had the best engine until 2021 and the biggest budget.@@rct800
@@rct800 Honda engine was never reported to really keep RBR back from Mercedes, was it? I thought it was usually depicted as about even, or sometimes even ahead of Merc’s engine.
George isn’t complaining as much
George is not an F1 Rockstar. He knows he can't score better than Mercedes.
Hamilton can complain. He's a WDC and he's leaving. George is nothing but a prospect. And Hamilton does have a deal for the future, on ANOTHER TEAM, George has nothing. So obviously George has to put the work in for his own sake.
George has to play nice at this point in his career, it would be counterproductive to make waves.
Russel is better but is letting the diva have his last moment in the spotlight
@@bizarroeddie1Exactly Hamilton can and should complain, that's what the team pay him 40 million dollars a year to do.
They had the best car for years because they outspent everyone. It was always “the car” for them.
What about the years where RB and Ferrari outspent them? Or are we just ignoring that
@@thelockoutshouldend What year in the turbo hybrid era before the cast cap did RB outspend Mercedes?
@@thelockoutshouldend What are you talking about? The last time Ferrari outspent Mercedes was 2013, if anything. And then Mercedes agreed with Toto Wolff that they would REALLY spend during the V6 era. Mercedes spent THE MOST since 2014 until 2021.
"My team don't make mistakes" remember?
New Merc is already faster than Max’s RB19 from last year…
James Allison left before 2022 and this is his first complete car now he’s back.
It’s “an experiment”.
Don’t forget Lewis never loses, he is “driving an experimental setup” when he doesn’t win.
Lewis and Mercedes don’t make mistakes. That’s a negative way of looking at it. They are experiments.
They made the mistake of paying him instead of paying competent engineers.
@@JakeM218🤡
It's iffy when you're not even beating ur own teammate in the same car!!!
He’s actually only whitewashed bottas and kovlalienen as teamates every other teammate had beaten him over at least 1 season before and button outscored him overall together as teamates
Yes, Prost outscored Senna too overall as teammates.
It's funny how much memory loss these tik tok kids have. They'll make you think Lewis didn't finish 3rd last season, while Russle finished 8th in the "Same car!!!"
HAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA 🤣
@@Lozza97- people don’t like facts when they can hate instead 😔
fun fact: Mercedes W15 is faster than Red Bull RB19, they are months behind Red Bull and Ferrari
Interesting to think about it that way.
they've been months behind for years!
The W14 was faster then the RB18, obviously the cars improve a lot over a year
@@inahole2678 Yes, but first of all RB18 wasn't as dominant as RB19 and secondly the development phase through the first year is more steep. If Mercedes had changed the design earlier than Monaco last year maybe now they could have compete for race wins. Mercedes is behind in time because they insisted on a flawed design.
Fun fact: the last drivers champion not named Hamilton or Verstappen was Mercedes's Nico Rosberg back in 2016.
My rear end instability is due to IBS.
At least help clean the track of your skid marks
lol
TMI
Hammy: "Bono my rear is real shitty"
Bono: "I know I can smell it you fuck"
Probably a bit of both the car is not as good and Lewis declines due to lack of motivation. We saw that with Seb in 2020. The next thing we know, he is back to being a great driver in 2021 with a few very good results.
Insert Homer Simpson meme: Worse season... So far
Need to remember that Ross Brawn set up Merc ready for the 2014 session. Toto took all Ross's good work. Look at what he did at Williams with Claire.....not much/ go backwards. This is actually the start of the Toto era at Merc
I agree, but Ross Brawn's redesigned rules to reduce costs (lorry racing), means he isn't the Messiah either. I blame the American owners for destroying the TV event, we have now. (I won't use the word sport, as it isn't that anymore). If this continues I think F1 will become unimportant in 5-10 years, and other Motorsport will "win"?
He put in his two weeks notice. 😂
His 22 race notice 😂
He put it in too early.
@@matthewcurtis3759 hahaha.... What to early. I agree
@@toolegittoquit_001 exactly 💯 lol
im disappointed in him. the moment his team stops winning and starts struggling he just leaves. doesnt stay to help em through the tough period
It also doesn't help that your "star" driver spends so little time in the simulator to help correlate what the sim is doing compared to what the car is doing in the real world.
yawn no.
@@Chris-jt4ux yawn. yes.
@@quigglyz you're clueless.
If I’m not mistaken isn’t the Mercedes simulator giving data that’s completely wrong compared to real life.
I'll explain it for you, he can't adapt to not having an absolute rocket ship of a car that's on rails through the corners.
Oh geez, how did we not notice he was just a crap driver this whole time? Thanks for informing us with your extensive knowledge of the subject matter random internet person!
It's also mercedes cant cope without spending more then my other team.
I can’t help thinking these World champions have had really fast cars during their winning seasons..
@@pdxholmeswe always knew Hamilton was overrated, but his fans never believed us.
@@pdxholmeshe almost won the championship in his rookie season how is he crap
Shows how lucky Hamilton has been to have great cars throughout his F1 career.
Lewis lost his touch, he got to cocky with Bottas as a teammate and stopped developing.
Now the new generation has taken over and Lewis seems unable to step up.
Yeah you're definitely right about that you would think if you're watching cars 3 in real life.😊
Hamilton about to be the new Danny ric
@@hrwells9698 more like cars 3 lightning McQueen but real life.
Are Ferrari going to regret switching Sainz with Hamilton? - I think so, but let's see.
100%
Ferrari never fails to fuck it up.
Hamilton is being paid many millions of pounds to race for Mercedes, so he should do everything he can to score every point possible.
He should be fired. Other better drivers would kill to drive for Mercedes.
I feel that when Hamilton is not fighting for a championship he can lose 2 tenths in qualifying.
If he's not fighting for the win, he loses another half of a tenth in the race.
A superb driver. One of the best, but he simply lacks that Alonso-type attitude of giving it all, in all circumstances, regardless of track position or championship ambitions.
Lewis hamilton "when I'm winning its because I'm the best driver. When I'm losing its all the car"
I love his tears
@@Gleepglurphis the best at what he does and so are you a random ass on the internet no one knows
@@kidusabebe6634he finished p12...
@@kidusabebe6634 sorry that im a physict and not a celebrity. obviously know one knows me. make sure to zip up lewis's pants when you're done
Every start to the year has been his worst start to a year for the last few years, I hate it here
youre in the team? any inside general comment?
Lewis is a beast and he will always claw his way back. I can't wait for him to arrive at Ferrari
As someone who suffered Merc dominance for almost 10 years: 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@@zbou23didn't sit through the British anthem for the fucking dutch.
@@MrSilverfish12😂😂😂
Turns out Hamilton doesn't make the difference in the winning capability of the team with his talent alone. But that has always been true, you would just never realize it when he had the fastest car on the grid. He's a grade A Jimmie Johnson comparison: talented enough to take a winning car to the championship, but not enough talent to make an average car a winner. Definitely not a GOAT by that measure.
Name 1 f1 driver that's won a championship in a average car?
You sound like someone who hasn't watch F1 before 2014. Literally won in cars that weren't the fastest. Maybe not anymore. But he has done it in his career.
Bro how are you guys even F1 fans for saying such things 😂
True, same as Max
Lewis was already a star of the sport when he arrived at Mercedes but I guess those 6 McLaren seasons completely eluded you.
Hamilton just isn’t what he used to be, but he’s too afraid to admit it. And neither is Mercedes.
We will see if he is refreshed after he makes the change to Ferrarri.
last season, he was top 3 driver lol. A few races dont mean anything.
@@askeladden450The season before that he got beaten by russel
@@foxctocofxk8509 no he was just as good as russel in 2022. Apart from the first few races where he was using a test setup, he was on par. And being on par with someone like george shows you are not in decline. Seb got obliterated by charles. Compared to that, lewis is doing pretty good.
I can only Believe that George can do better than Lewis if He beated outperformed him consecutively for 6 years straight.
Other then that, hell no, there's no way you can convince that George is better than Lewis "overall", there's just been 1 season where Hamilton got outperformed anyways from Russell.
Remind me pls, this is the team that doesn’t makes mistakes ?
No other driver had 8 constructor champion wins. He had insane luck with his cars in his career.
If he bounces back big at Ferrari it will reinforce the feeling he’s just phoning it in at Mercedes at the moment, leading me to think if he doesn’t have a dominant car he doesn’t care enough to put 100% into it.
wait … i get my 🍿
This is going to be amusing, the BS tech bingo can begin, I have already 3 hits,
experimental setups
The car has mood swings
Unlock the potential
I fear ferrari made a mistake… sainz still has a lot of good years ahead of him while hamilton doesn’t realistically…
Ferrari is no longer a racing team nor an auto manufacturer, its become all about branding
Even if he’s shit the advertising and merch he’ll bring in for Ferrari will be worth it for them
@@gouveiarfloh yea… that’s why they are the fastest team on the grid 😂
@@CreedM8 my man they fired the only driver on the lineup who delivers something
yo! guys are you actually this Fd up??! Alonso is still very good at 42 and he is weaker than Lewis. Lewis is far from dead! otherwise Alonso would be out too since donkeys ago. stop your bs seriously. people like you... 🤦♂..
You’ve just highlighted that all teams need more testing on track! Great video as always 👍
I really love how the merc downfall and his subsequent transfer to Ferrari exposes these british F1 "media" channels´. Should have seen it coming, guys... it was only a matter of time until the combination of budget cap and honda engine getting better and better would crush mercedes. RB had the best aero car platform for quite some time now and mercedes was busy celebrating and not catching up...
Sigh, or very very maybe, he is just a good driver, but isn't among the best when his car isn't 4 seconds faster than the rest of the field. Don't get me wrong, he is not a bad driver. But nowhere near as good as a lot of people seem to think.
Prime Hamilton must have been good, but in 2024 how long can the excuses of the car hold up. His drivability has taken him to 7wc, but I think it’s fading. I think factors like age and less passion are slowing him down. If this was prime Hamilton against Sainz, I would bet Hamilton, but not in 2024.
Another thing is a drivers adaptability, prime Hamilton and other drivers were able to adapt quickly to a car even though it might have not suited their liking, I think Hamilton got deteriorated and aged by his dominance. Russel is able to adapt to the car and find better pace I think because he has driven the slower Mercedes era car for a lot of his career now. Hamilton in 2007 was placed almost instantly into a very competitive car, and quickly proved his competitiveness. But in Mercedes those conditions won’t continue.
He is or at least was a good driver deep down, who wouldn’t have needed a W11 quick car to be competitive,.but there are drivers now who have what prime Hamilton had.
“My team don’t make mistakes”
If he said the opposite, you would've said he's throwing his team under the bus and this is coming from a Max fan.
@@optimusprime028 well he kept saying it. How do you expect people to react?
@@optimusprime028 That's how people are always hyper critical of anything Lewis says. The hate they have for him is so strong. The guy literally cant win with these people.
@@san-joshuabarrett and Lewis fans are soooo nice to Max? grow up
@@san-joshuabarrettWell, nobody forced him to give unnecessary praise to his team, so...
Maybe Lewis will be able to get Angela back when he moves over to Ferrarri?
Oh god NO. Not that dreadful New Zealand accent.
I think she’s working with Marcus Armstrong in indycar
She ditched him. Toxic environment.
@@alexcepile1420 What toxic environment, they're buddies.
@@alexcepile1420 its the F1 schedule I think. A lot of people can't handle it, they basically living out of hotel rooms. Seems fun but after a few years its hell
It seems he just can't handle NOT having the fastest car for once.
Think about it: since his debut he has never once had even the 3rd fastest car.
It spoiled him. And now he experiences a midfield car for the first time. As soon as he is not automatically winning, he immediately looses confidence and therefore pace.
Nah I think he just can’t drive without a very stable rear end anymore.
It's pretty easy to explain. Third year in a row the team doesn't show improvement on the car. They managed to make the car worse despite changing things. Which leads to him not having confidence in it. If the car is going to snap at any moment, you end up being conservative on your driving. Then there's the motivation, which is probably none. I'm sure he wanted to have a great last season with Mercedes but everything is pretty much the same as it was last year, with the distance to RB even bigger. And his mind is probably already drifting towards 2025, hoping Ferrari keeps up a good evolution on their car so he has a chance to fight for something, even if it's just a few podiums or victories, which is more then he has now at Mercedes.
It must be quite sad to not be able to deliver a good last season, on both sides, after such a great run together. But that's part of the sport.
About him vs Russell, people are already making it like Russell is being far superior, plus there's still plenty of season to go. Hamilton always has bad starts of the year when he's struggling with the car. But soon he understand where he's failing, he pretty much goes to another planet and the teammate starts to fall behind. Which the haters immediately blame on the team helping him or that "his car is better" and whatever he achieved in his career doesn't matter. Meanwhile when the roles are reversed these excuses don't come up and they seem really interested in statistics.
WASHED
Lewis is now just experiencing what almost any other successful F1 driver would normally have at the beginning of their career and not at the end: A tough season in a mediocre car. Lewis’ F1 career began in top tier machinery. He didn’t have to climb his way up to a top ride like Alonso, Verstappen, Schumacher, Räikkönen, Button or Senna had to.
I’ve been saying this for 35 years, my nan drives faster
Finally, the whole British media have avoided talking about merc for the last few weeks. Normally this would be a welcome change (sycophantic bells that they are) but I actually want to hear about them when they are doing badly; schadenfreude is one hell of a drug. :)
Sounds like you have an inferiority complex?
It really is. And soem people think that we shouldn’t celebrate this. Lmao suckers
I think his performance will only get worse, or won’t improve much. Now that Merc knows he’s leaving, they’ll develop the car to suit Russell’s driving style.
If he cant beat Russell he sure as hell cant beat leclerc
Of course it could be worse, he could drive for Alpine :P
HE’s worse than 2009, the car isn’t. We can only judge him based on teammates performance
Hamilton demanded the engineers what the car needed for 2024. So they gave him what the car needed and now it's worse.
yawn no
@@Chris-jt4ux yawn yes
Wrong, Lewis told exactly what the car needed since 2022 but the engineers didn't listen to him. The only thing they implemented was to move the seat 10 cm behind which both drivers agreed to
Hamilton declining just like Seb in his Ferrari days.
Seb was spinning and crashing on his own. You don't see Hamilton doing that.
@@Euclides287 in the formation lap
@@Euclides287Because Hamilton didn’t even try to push? Looks like Hamilton is more dependent on rear downforce than Vettel ever is.
@@PowellCat745 If so where are the spins and crashes in question ???
@@Lozza97Yeah yeah the good old "experimental setup" excuse. Come on, that joke is so old.
Cost cap means they cant just brute force their way to having the best car on the grid anymore
Frankly, I see two massive issues: Mercedes has NO one that understands the Ground effect and Lewis (as much as it pains me to say this) just simply can't adapt to a ruleset that effectively makes his driving style useless. Sure Fernando is older and doing better but he's also driven other types of cars as well, which arguably has played into his adaptability. Hamilton has only ever known F1 and despite how different the regs were between his debut year and 2021, he wasn't driving a car that had to be sealed to the ground to work the way ground effect cars do. As much as the fan in me from 2008 wants to believe a combo of him and Bono (and possibly Newey if Elkan is doing all he can to move heaven and earth) could be a the next greatest thing, older me feels like this might just be over for him despite Ferrari being the only team so far that's actually made significant progress in understanding this ruleset.
And lets not forgot who Hamilton is surrounded by at this rate: Ignoring Daniel and Fernando and Valterri (and Haas in General because Haas just should be ignored entirely purely out of spite for Gene), everyone is far younger and far more able to adapt and haven't had a decade on them like he has.
Of course, unlike before, he no longer has a car 2 seconds a lap faster than everybody else. Making a career out of sunday cruises to the finish line without opposition made him complacent. After the first bit of opposition from Russel, he gives up and switches team.
yawn. clueless.
@@Chris-jt4ux Sorry reality triggers you so much
@@quigglyz ok fangirl
@@Chris-jt4ux❄️❄️❄️
@@user-wy5xe6ht2m yawn fangirl
I adore how many times they say "If Hamilton is to salvage this season, Mercedes must fix their car", when Russell in same shitbox is outperforming him rn.
Yes, car is shit, but Hamilton is also underperforming, even if Merc fixes the car, it wont solve his problems.
Hamilton is a champion whose future is at another team. George is a Mercedes driver for the foreseeable future. Obviously George would be more motivated to put the effort in for the team, there are no other seats available for him even if he did want to jump ship like Lewis.
They are Merc simps that's why
What is there to explain? Hamilton isn't good enough anymore, he's only good in a car 2sec / lap faster than the rest of the field. He better retire before making even more of a fool of himself.
He’s gone off the boil, lost his edge.
It happens to every driver eventually, and he is no exception.
He’s not nearly as hungry, or sharp or fast as he was even two years ago.
The Title loss to Verstappen broke him in a way that I don’t think even he himself fully understands or acknowledges.
We don’t need a full video to understand the predicament that team is in.
This season is going to be a long one for Hamilton and Mercedes. A few scattered podiums is what they look on course for.
I wouldn't be surprised if they don't get any podiums this year.
Time for retirement and transition to fashion designer.
Except that Hamilton wears the nastiest, most ridiculous and cartoonish clothes of anyone.
@@todd.h.5880he doesn't design for Jacomo, but rich fools
When I hear them with "what we see in wind tunnel is not the same as on track".......didn't they say in Bahrain that the car shows exactly what they see in the tunnel and now they can improve and develop properly from that? Only lies man....
Nice to hear about this! 👍
Lewis is just washed up now. He just needs to clear his seat up and let someone else have a chance in a top team.
Nothing of Value will be lost if Hamilton Leaves :)
Perez had hard time adapting Redbull!
Different drive style,
Different set up!
Almost whole team against him !
You telling me a 7 time world Champion just gives up like that? Care not to adapt?
Must feel good when you have it easy!
When you don't,
Gotta walk away!
Perhaps in his mclaren years etc that's the Hanilton that needs to come back!
He got.....tooo..... COMPLACENT.
once he has problems with his car, the only feasable solution is running away, what a lack of loyalty and hard work. He is going to ferrari to enjoy the other's hardwork. Pretty much the same when he arrived to mercedes after Schumacher retirement.
Remember when merc wasted 3 days of free testing cause they wanted to hide the zero pod concept as long as possible, afraid others might copy it quickly ?
Now they be wishing for 3 days of on track testing to sort their car out😂
It's shocking a team like Mercedes can suffer the same problems for 3 seasons in a row without being able to fix it. Makes you wonder if there are even more fundamental issue's in the way the teams is working or even how it's run. Three years of not being able to correlate simulation data with real life track data is just crazy..
Yet this is apparently the evidence that proves he was never any good. At least according to this comment section. 😆
The amount of videos focus Merc get is on par with Lewis P13 finish Imola(lots of coverage for that position)
Its now save to say that its more likely that Verstappen wins 8 championships than Hamilton.
"THE RACE" as a channel is fully a fully pledged Lewis Hamilton fan. Video after video, its like a fan who's always looking to paint over his mistakes and find excuses for his lack of skill. Yeah, it is okay, but it would de you a lot of good if you just admitted it in the beginning or the end of the video. Without it, doing your "journalism" is just doing "fanwok"
Facts.
true
Correct
Easy: who is the head of FIA since end of 2021?
No backing for Mercedes from FIA since then.
I've said over and over. If it's the car, then it's the side pods, which were radically different compared to everyone else ever since the new cars were developed. All the aero bits have to work in unison, so if your starting point with the side pods was wrong, you have to redevelop the entire car from scratch to fix it, something Mercedes has refused to do.
Hamilton is only wins when his car is dominant! If he was such a great driver he would have many podiums with a lesser car than his competitors. This channel loves to make excuses for Lewis, but when Checo has a bad race it’s time for others to replace him. This same measuring stick of replacement should be used with Lewis and not with him taking Carlos’s seat!
I’m not a Ferrari fan but I am a Sainz fan. I still can’t believe they’ve rejected Sainz and kept Leclerc…
then you're hopeless. go watch something else.
3 seasons of losing continuously and you still think Sainz is better than Leclerc 😂.
Leclerc has better overall stats than Sainz
@@paperplane-db8qf yes, I know it seems weird but sometimes you just detect something special about a certain driver that team politics and false priorities cannot disguise. Only time will tell when he’s actually up against Leclerc racing for another team…
Maybe Hamilton finally found a car he can't drive, Vettel seemed amazing until he wasn't too... but he was the best at driving a very specific era of car. Plus I still think that it's easier for a guy to come from driving bad cars to a mediocre car than to go from driving a great car, to the same car. I mean the team should expect more but now that his head is off to Ferrari it's probably difficult to extract that last bit of effort.
The reality is hes an average driver at best. Russell destroying him at every marker shows that the only reason he won so many championships was the fact that Merc was allowed 2 more years of development then any other team during that era to get them into F1.
imagine being ferrari and going out of your way to downgrade your drivers
I'm trying to remember 2 seasons after his move to McLaren in which Hamilton out drove a Subpar car.
Maybe he is just an average driver when he isn't behind the wheel of the most dominant car???
He finished top 3 last year?? What is up with these clown takes
L
Alzheimers? 2023 is not that long ago. He outperformed his teammate by a mile and was clearly the best non Red Bull driver?
@@2sthimo449🏎
@@2sthimo449 in 2022 got out performed xD
Reminds me of sebs last season with Ferrari
A real champion works harder and against all odds to make the best of his/her tools. Not talks more outside the team. Remember there is no 'I' in team....! Mercedes should be giving Schumacher a F1 practice times for his hard work on the SIMM. Can not hurt, as Hamilton is on the way out anyways..........!
I'd be surprised if Lewis is in that car at the last race of the season if this continues
In all the three races so far, besides the W15 being a tractor yet again, i could not help but feel like lewis isnt mentally present at all,its like hes driving per sé cause hes given up on merc and hes just counting the days till ferrari...
What I don't understand is how quick fans can draw conclusions when it comes to Hamilton. I think this data sample of 3 races is too small for fans to say Lewis is on a decline but it took them 2 full seasons at McLaren + a half season to say Danny Ric is washed and some still will find an excuse for him. K-mag has been convincingly outperformed by Hulkenberg and no one wants to mention it. But 3 races in a season with a brand new car concept to adapt to and people are ready to draw conclusions that Hamilton is washed and questioning the Ferrari deal if it was the right decision. All I'm saying is don't be so quick to jump to conclusions because the only thing we know for sure is that the car is bad and needs major improvements if it wishes to get wins and podiums
they want to hate look at stroll, sargent, k-mag, riccardo way worse but they give them time or say nothing
Buddy, EVERYONE mentions that Hülkenberg crushed Magnussen
@@tilltronje1623 Maybe once or twice but not as much as they mention Lewis situation. Just since this week alone I've seen easily over ten videos about Hamilton's current form and countless number of post and it has been just 3 races. Danny Ric done too full seasons underperforming and its not talked about as much as this 3 race stint from Lewis.
@@san-joshuabarrett it's almost like Hamilton is a 7 time world champion or something 🤦🏻♂️
@@san-joshuabarrett it is honestly impressive how convinced you are that your own limited experiences reflect the overall discourse
"Bono, how many more days till I am gone?"
Thanks 👍
I don’t know but the simple observation is that a team and driver career imploded with the disappearance of a 7 year 50bhp advantage
It is 849 days since Sir Lewis last won a race. In that time, Max has won 37 races and 3 WDCs
Great stat. 👍
Doesn't even deserve the Sir, hasn't accomplished anything without the op car.
@@Savant_Ananya We can say the same thing to Max, "hasn't accomplished anything without the op car."
@@Savant_Ananya delusional hater his first season he beat a 2 time champion alonso and nearly won the championship in his rookie year and lost it by 1 point. won a race every season with mclaren average car, faced rosberg and beat him in 2014 very close season, beat vettel in the ferrari that had a illegal engine. DTS fans love to hate maybe you are 11 years old.
Fraudstappen, the great fake champ
I think he lost his mojo... and Ferrari has made a big mistake signing him. Ferrari has two solid drivers, if one isn't there the other will be... Hamilton is not going to give Ferrari wins or progress. It could become really painful is Mercedes signs Sainz and he does better and finishes in front of Hamilton.
Explaining but half explaining, 2009 McLaren, Ferrari, Renault and Red Bull where told not to use the double diffuser by Whiting, as they reduced their aeros by 40% or more, and smaller teams were allowed to use the double diffuser. The new regs have mugged away late braking, which 100% impacts Lewis and Dan. With the rear end instability, and Lewis moving his seat forward it has created more rear end instability. The grey cloud in every silverlining is that Carlos's car looks great for Lewis for 2025.
Ah Lewis. It seems your career is much harder without party mode, DAS system and a >500 million car development budget that far exceeds that of the other teams
Agree, typical crymilton fanboys defending his crying.
Das was nothing to do with performance. Grow up fella
Ferrari outspent Mercedes in some seasons and Red Bull was never far behind.
@@FormulaProgwtf do you mean? Das provided a huge advantage in tire warmups.
@@PowellCat745he won 6 championships before that without DAS. So DAS has nothing to do with him being good
Leclerc is gonna eat this man alive in 2025 if he keeps performing like this
The rear end stability narrative has become a bit overstated. In the past Hamilton has been extremely adept in pointy cars notably at McLaren. It looks like a combination of age kicking in and there being something very specific about this car that’s not meshing
How many times can you tell and watch the exact same story?
It's The Race: Perpetual Hamilton apologists that comfuse fanboying for journalism.
Mercedes should have stuck with the W13 zero pod concept
agreed 👍👍🤌🤌
Stuck with that concept for a whole season only to get 1 win, and you're still here brain-dead thinking that concept is gonna work?
Cause that was such a winner.
@@shreeshvijayakumar58870 side pod wins: 1
Side pod wins: 0
Need I say more…
But Lewis knew better than the aero guys. That's why he pushed and got the concept change. At least Russel got a win with that car.
Its simple - Merc is not designing a car around Lewis anymore and they haven't for a couple years. I think they really thought he would retire after 21. I think he wants to move on (maybe from just Merc or the whole thing - Ferrari just threw an insane amount of money at him to stay.
He had a winning car from the very beginning if that if the worst start to his carrer...
Or maybe…. Just maybe… Father time is still undefeated…
And it only goes one way...no one can stay at the top forever, look at Valentino Rossi, one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all-time, once in his late 30's the decline was gradual but real.
He's past it and should have retired a couple of years ago, so he could rattle his jewellery, parade his poor clothing taste and develop his _flap T_ in the US.
To me it sounds like the Mercedes is a struggle when driving in traffic with more disturbed air from the other cars when compared to 'free' running during practice and qualifying. Now I am certainly no aero expert, but could it be that the aero window is extremely narrow which is a result of looking so narrowly at the wind tunnel numbers and focusing on the sharpest results and not opting for a more rounded out approach?
Wasn't that always the case? Even in their dominant period it seemed like they weren't anywhere near as good as the others when in traffic; although they were normally 1-2 so it wasn't an issue.