Hamilton in F1 for 'another decade at least'

On that I fully agree, start off the season with a poor car and your stuck, and your season is over.

 

Yes, you can't make many improvements like in the past. It sucks.

 

Hamilton is an egomaniac. He will stay as long as he can in a vain attempt to catch Michael's records.

Won't happen, but he will try.

 

He is on track to break the record for poles.

 

He will probably get that done this next year. I mean the big ones. Wins/WDC

Honestly, the guy has driven muuuuch better cars than Schumacher did year-over-year in his career so he should break all records. Doubt he will though.

 

I wouldn't be so sure...

 

I guess if Merc continues putting the most dominant car in history under him anything is possible. Pretty easy to get poles and wins when you don't even have to worry about the rest of the field.

 

And if Mercedes was declining or leaving the arena, Hamilton would have no problem to get a seat in another top team if he wishes to pursue his career.

He may not have the most pleasant personality, but he is very fast, determined and aggressive, and would interest most team managers, I would think.

 

So did Alonso, doesn't always work out like that. And there is a gigantic difference between "top team" and the most dominant cars ever, which are what he has been driving for 3 years straight now.

Alonso went to "top teams" McLaren and Ferrari and has won zero titles and a handful of races. All about being in the right place at the right time.

Basically, Hamilton would have to double his career he has had up until this point, and that still wouldn't let him pass MSC in several stats like WDCs and fastest laps. At 31, I suppose it's possible. Probable? Nah

 

Has anyone here accurately predicted what they would be doing in ten years time, and how they would feel about it? At any point in their life? I haven't personally.

Although I think F1 is a pretty good match for Hamilton's current lifestyle, things do change.

 

For once I actually agree with you 100%.

That said I can't imagine Hamilton will stick around for another 10 years. That'd be mind numbing. But I can see him drive another 5 seasons.

For the sake of the sport I hope Hamilton will not break those records: It was boring enough to watch Schumacher win race after race and year after year.

 

Some Tifosi may not agree with you here; they probably didn't find the Schumacher era boring as you did.

 

Schumacher won races due to skill as well as a decent car, he didn't rely on having a car so dominant no other car could challenge except the one other Mercedes, and then, he has the team trying to stifle that car anyhow.

 

Do I look like I give a damn?

To me F1 always comes first, Ferrari second. The Schumacher years at Ferrari were exciting in the beginning but once he had matched Fangio's records, things became really stale and repetitive. And that's not even talking about the dirty driving he resorted to.

BTW: I am a great Vettel fan but his 4 titles became just as boring.

 

I never find a car or a driver dominating boring. If they do a better job than the opposition, they deserve to win.

 

Not my view but I can certainly understand that sentiment

 

Merc is so dominant I have a bad feeling no one will be catching them anytime soon. Lets hope the rules shakeup comes into play

 

Or Hamilton goes to Ferrari where he will do another Fred/Vettel and somebody else (Ricci?) will score WDCs at MB

 

I can't picture Hamilton at Ferrari

 

People said that about Fred

 

i honestly can't see Ham at Ferrari either. too demanding, too whiny and pissy when things aren't going his way - i just don't see Ferrari wanting to tolerate that behavior. i see him in F1 as long as he continues to be in a COMPETITIVE car. take that away and he'll ***** and moan right into retirement. i think that's what bugs me most about Ham - circumstances have to be perfect for him to be content. make things tough and he becomes a pissy, little girl. i just hope he doesn't break schumi's WDC record (or match fangio) - that would be a shame, imo.

 

Hasn't Ferrari said they aren't interested in him? I don't recall them saying that about Alonso

 

Dunno. Possible but minds change based on situations. They got Seb now, they don't need him now

 

He isn't classy enough for ferrari, fullstop

 

The Hamilton/Schumacher/Vettel/Alonso talk is quite interesting.

Schumacher, Vettel and Alonso all have a history of dominating their teammates in their title years (and beyond in most cases). They all where the dominating force int the team, not necessarily the car. The car itself was quite obviously part of the equation, but in the hands of these 3 it was possible to dominate. Their teammates, even though rated, could quite simply not keep up and where beaten convincingly over time. Hamilton doesn't have a history of doing that. He was expected to wipe the floor with both Button and Rosberg but neither happened, and was in fact beaten...

No doubt Schumacher's losses to Rosberg will be named here but this happened when he was old after a 3 year retirement, he made more mistakes than we used to see, and just didn't quite have it anymore. Even so, it was still pretty close. Vettel's loss to Ricciardo is fairly easily explained, first of all he got the brunt of car issues which either forced him out of the race or worse (for his ''wikipedia statistics'') the car kept going but at a slow pace. This happened plenty of times. At to that he was already moving to Ferrari so a decent chunk of Red Bull information certainly wouldn't be his anymore, and a highly motivated and brilliantly quick teammate...

Hamilton is no slouch, but I don't think he's nearly as good as many claim him to be (a GOAT).