If Hamilton didn't win his first title to date. **Spoilers**

I'm sure a lot of those statistics will niggle Hamilton even more, especially as it seems to show that he should have dominated Button this season.

It'll be a different story next year though!



As for Vettel's statistics: What the hell man!, stop hogging the lime light and give some others a chance for once!

 

Oh, Howard!

 

Sorry Al!, I'll have a burger to go!

 

We have discussed many times that any driver is only 5% of the cars performance. A F1 drivers top priority to is to be able to think and control a race at 200mph not the car. The driving the car, this skill you all talk about, is or needs to be 100% instinct.

We have all read about Senna talking about how he felt he was having out of body experiences at Monaco and that he was not driving the car at all ... in fact his instincts were so inturn with his car his brain felt idle.

We have also seen MS simply spin off at Indy when he had a huge lead because he allowed his mind to wander, due to lack of interest or boredom, that eventually this affected his instincts.

What we are seeing with Lewis, I believe, is a driver that is having to drive the car too much that there is not enough left to make the right race craft decisions ... and the result of this is woeful passing attempts.

Why is this?

1. Either he is not happy in the car, ie. does not like the balance or something and thus he is not able to let his instinct take over, or
2. He is constantly over driving the car and he is having to think too much, or
3. Something else ... ?

Now I would be more on LH's side if he was constantly beating his team mate but his team mate is on rails and currently just as fast. This extremely rarely happened to MS, maybe for a single race.

But of course his team mate is a world champion too, and then LH's fans will talk about his first year. Lets face it with LH's first year he had absolutely nothing to worry about and he could just take each race at a time. He did not really have to prove himself as he was in the best team/car on the grid and thus he was going to get good results, particularly for a rookie. Compare that to somebody starting in a Simtek, struggling to qualify and then racing the ***** out of it to come last.

The thing I have to return to, is Button has never been any good in a poor car, never ... and yet he is now equal to LH and very competitive. If LH's apparent lack of pace, or being able to dominate the Damon Hill type Button (which LH should to be able to get the praise as a driver his fan base have for him) then for this to be a lack of focus issue then his mind must be really fragile.

Now we all know Webber struggles with those last few tenths of a second because he does not believe in himself enough, but we don't talk about Webber constantly as though he is the second coming. I thought he might have made a one time WDC a little while ago, but even then he would have become an Alan Jones not a Fangio.

Back to work ... but we all have to agree we have found something else to disagree with Jackie Stewart about, ie: LH's is not the benchmark for a whole generation of drivers (Lewis will re-write the F1 history book).
Pete