Lewis Hamilton

Don't try to hard to explain, and above all don't use facts..Elton fans don't watch races, they just like to watch the results....and the excuses when he ****s up...

 

This would assist LH efforts to keep ahead of Bottas as he admits distraction. Toto should have not done this on fairness overall but that’s his choice.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/147038/bottas-career-uncertainty-became-pain-in-the-ass


Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says he can handle Valtteri Bottas's contractual situation "better" in the future after the Finn called his career-long uncertainty "a pain in the ass".

Bottas has been retained by Mercedes for 2020, which will extend his spell with the team to at least four seasons, but was made to wait on a decision by Wolff over whether to keep Bottas or promote Esteban Ocon alongside Lewis Hamilton.

Since joining Mercedes in 2017, Bottas's future has been decided on a year-by-year basis, and he admitted it has had an effect on him after missing out on this year's title as team-mate Hamilton clinched a sixth championship at the United States Grand Prix.

"There was definitely uncertainty for 2020 at some point," said Bottas. "Lots of rumours.

"I had no idea what was going to happen. I just had to wait.

"As an athlete, as a driver, it's not an ideal situation.

"You can't be completely with peace of mind and focus on the job and feel mentally free and in the right place.

"It's tricky. When that continues, year after year, every single year of your career, at some point it's getting a pain in the ass.

"It's definitely nice to get the contract signed. But, it's going to be the same story next year.

"I'm not too worried at this point because the pace is good, I enjoy the driving, I enjoy working with the team and hope they appreciate that as well."

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Bottas's extension with Mercedes was announced ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix as F1 returned from its summer break.

Prior to that Bottas had scored four pole positions and two wins from 12 races, but trailed team-mate Hamilton by 62 points in the championship after crashing out in Germany and then breaking his front wing on the first lap in Hungary.

• BOTTAS'S CHALLENGE
• The impossible job?
• The task of matching Hamilton
• Bottas still to reach his peak
• Seeing off the Ocon threat

In the seven races since the break and his future was confirmed, Bottas has claimed one position and has scored another two victories, trimming Hamilton's advantage to 57 points.

Bottas is enjoying the strongest end to a season in his four years with Mercedes but Wolff believes there will be a benefit to improving how he manages the contractual process next year.

Both Hamilton and Bottas will need new deals beyond 2020, while Ferrari's drivers and Red Bull's Max Verstappen will also be on the market.

"With Valtteri, there is a better way to deal with that," said Wolff. "Now, in retrospect, you can say it probably had an effect.

"And I will try to consider that, and make a better job in that respect.

"I think 2021 the door is wide open, no drivers are contracted to any team, that's super exciting, and I guess that the driver carousel is going to start

 

https://www.planetf1.com/news/jenson-button-lewis-hamilton-2011/

Nice words from Ricciardo on Button vs LH

 

His competitors problem is that he ****s up so seldom that they seldom win.

 

they where replaying the 2010 and 2011 races here (not all). Fully agree with Ric. Button made Elton look average. Elton was full of mistakes and his classic team radios are no different than today.

As others have said here for a very long time....it's very easy to be dominant and appear the best when you are in the best car. The moment elton is not, or his car has competition....or even worse for him, he's got a competitive teammate...the whole ''GOAT'' narative completely falls apart.

Alas, the F1 media is primarily British run and has traditionally been quite biased.

 

Even a not-at-his-best, "full of mistakes" Lewis somehow managed to win 10 races to Button's 6 during there time as teammates...impressive

Agreed...the British media did always have extraordinary love for 'Our Jens'

 

As if the Italian media is not..........

 

The italian media is really mostly targeted to people that speak italian.

The stuff that gets said in italian media rarely gets picked up vs ANY english story.

 

You mean his car and team.....

 

..even because most english can't understand a word of any other language....so, no point in trying i guess....

 

No, not really, in fact they are the first to attack ferrari and it's drivers when the screw up....unlike british media that are first to find an excuse when elton ****s up...

 

...like saying Jeff Bezos isn't that good at business...

 

Placing this here - I was happy with Nico and Kovalainen is correct!

https://www.planetf1.com/news/nico-rosberg-talent-underappreciated/

 

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Sid ..you out there ?

 

Is this what F1 has become...talking about Zinardi's bicycle accident and Hamilton's past? From what I read on the F1 website, Mercedes has been busy with lots of update for the car. Any other news out there we should be interested in?

 

Yes. I couldn’t possibly care any less about Elton Hamdashian’s life away from the track. I don’t follow his social media. It’s asinine. I DO want to know about the car and the team and I want The Scuderia to get their crap together ASAP. I do care about Zanardi. That situation is heart breaking.

 

You got that right Pedro.

The Italian media is notorious for "badgering" Ferrari at a moments notice when Ferrari mucks it up.

 

The news currently about the W11 in Austria is just "updates".......meaning aero, PU, suspension, etc., etc.

We'll know soon enough but IMO after seeing these cars up close photo after photo, race after race, it looks to be on the aero side that gets the most updates.

 

Is the thing on his head alive?

 

Looks like a squid to me maybe one of those matrix ones!

 

... "You've come a long way, baby"


BE: "But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis fan because he is a super promoter of the sport."

BE is a super crafty old fox, but Lewis is not promoting the sport.

 

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Obvious....

 

+1 a great driver and an unrelenting narcissist.

 

I see Elton ripping into racist Bernie - probably more likely senile Bernie - but where was he when Bernie was spewing out this on Ferrari and Italians:

https://www.essentiallysports.com/f1-news-bernie-ecclestone-rips-into-ferrari-f1-in-racist-tirade/