O/T: Lewis Hamilton 6 x F1 World Champion

Came 2nd in American GP securing his 6th World Championship at the age of 34, fantastic 1-2 result for Mercedes.

Congrats Lewis Hamilton

Just watched the race and huge congratulations to Lewis Hamilton

Lots of F1 fans on here, so (hopefully) appropriate to make this huge achievement a 'Sticky' for 24 hours

Zzzzzzzzzzz

Boring boring boring.

As interesting as Strictly Dancing, Catchphrase, and Bake Off.

Equivalent to that irrelevant but aptly titled program Pointless.

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

Probably wouldn’t.

Would see first and last swapping a lot.

Hamilton races very well in the wet which is when it all evens out.

Can't stand him as a person, but very good at what he does.

That said, I do wish for him to lose every race.

Prick.

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

Changes coming for 2021 include a pice cap on spending, all cars exactly the same, different ways of qualifying and few new ideas for qualifying and race day too

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

Changes coming for 2021 include a pice cap on spending, all cars exactly the same, different ways of qualifying and few new ideas for qualifying and race day too

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.2021-f1-rules-the-key-changes-explained.2dCtCkxNofk20K1B4rJwTk.html

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.10-ways-the-2021-rules-will-improve-f1.1QlkNWf57I3HlAVeVeydyS.html

Congratulations to his engineers.

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

Changes coming for 2021 include a pice cap on spending, all cars exactly the same, different ways of qualifying and few new ideas for qualifying and race day too

Which Ferrari will veto.

Can't stand him as a person, but very good at what he does.

That said, I do wish for him to lose every race.

Prick.

I used to think the same. Although I had never actually met him as a person.

A friend of mine works at Mercedes as their fitness co-ordinator. She can’t praise him highly enough. Says he knows the name of everyone who works at their HQ and has a nice word for everyone. Says his public demeanour is miles away from his actual personality. She said what he did at Silverstone when he bought beers for all the volunteers then spent hours chatting to them (when he could have been at various parties draped in models) and she said that’s a regular occurrence for him.

He’s an elite athlete at the very top of his sport. Us Brits seem to hate those. Look at Andy Murray.

Lewis might be driving a top car but he has earned that top car and would beat any other driver that came in as a team mate. He beat Fernando Alonso, another all time great, in his rookie season when Alonso was the 2 time defending champion, in the same equipment. Two of his six titles (2008 & 2018) were in years where Ferrari had a better car and elite drivers (Kimi, Vettel, Massa) of their own. This guy is the all time great of his sport, breaking many 'unbreakable' records and responsible for some of the all time great drives and wins. He is very misunderstood as a person, pretty much anyone I have heard from who knows what he is like says the same thing, that he is humble, kind and generous.

Congrats To The Greatest British F1 Racer Of All Time Only The Great Michael Schumacher Stands In His Way, Still Cant Believe It When I Was Watching The Sport In The Early 2000's I Thought We Will Never See Anyone Beating The Great Michael Schumacher. You Would Think That Schumacher Himself Will Have A Tear In His Eyes Somewhere Recovering Watching Lewis Hamilton Catching Him Up.

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

Changes coming for 2021 include a pice cap on spending, all cars exactly the same, different ways of qualifying and few new ideas for qualifying and race day too

Which Ferrari will veto.

Ferrari accepted it hence why the new rules we’re released

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

Changes coming for 2021 include a pice cap on spending, all cars exactly the same, different ways of qualifying and few new ideas for qualifying and race day too

Which Ferrari will veto.

Ferrari accepted it hence why the new rules we’re released

Ooh have they? I thought they were dead against it.

This sport needs a shake up it's too predictable.

I think whoever wins one week has to drive the last placed car the next week.
Then we would see who the best driver is. All we see now is who has the most money to spend

Changes coming for 2021 include a pice cap on spending, all cars exactly the same, different ways of qualifying and few new ideas for qualifying and race day too

Which Ferrari will veto.

Ferrari accepted it hence why the new rules we’re released

Ooh have they? I thought they were dead against it.

Actually, they haven't accepted or rejected at this time, stating (quote):

"Ferrari has been a vocal opponent of aspects of the new rules and has the right to veto the plans if it deems it is not in the best interest of the championship.

Team boss Mattia Binotto, who has said it would be a "shame" to have to exercise that right, told Autosport last weekend that it would decide what to do "after the vote has been published"

They (Ferrari) see the publication of the new rules as a "starting point" and would rather work with the FIA to evolve the currently proposed rule changes rather than go against them

Ferrari appreciate F1 has to change but it's early days yet and they have options

Can't stand him as a person, but very good at what he does.

That said, I do wish for him to lose every race.

Prick.

I used to think the same. Although I had never actually met him as a person.

A friend of mine works at Mercedes as their fitness co-ordinator. She can’t praise him highly enough. Says he knows the name of everyone who works at their HQ and has a nice word for everyone. Says his public demeanour is miles away from his actual personality. She said what he did at Silverstone when he bought beers for all the volunteers then spent hours chatting to them (when he could have been at various parties draped in models) and she said that’s a regular occurrence for him.

He’s an elite athlete at the very top of his sport. Us Brits seem to hate those. Look at Andy Murray.

Fair play to him then if true (normally no reason to doubt what you say).

Just going by what I see from the outsidw. But your more informative comments suggest I'm wrong on that.

Not a big follower of F1 so will lend further weight to your words than mine!

I still think his personality will hold him back, but will admit defeat on his ability - F1 fans know more than me.

Can't stand him as a person, but very good at what he does.

That said, I do wish for him to lose every race.

Prick.

I used to think the same. Although I had never actually met him as a person.

A friend of mine works at Mercedes as their fitness co-ordinator. She can’t praise him highly enough. Says he knows the name of everyone who works at their HQ and has a nice word for everyone. Says his public demeanour is miles away from his actual personality. She said what he did at Silverstone when he bought beers for all the volunteers then spent hours chatting to them (when he could have been at various parties draped in models) and she said that’s a regular occurrence for him.

He’s an elite athlete at the very top of his sport. Us Brits seem to hate those. Look at Andy Murray.

Fair play to him then if true (normally no reason to doubt what you say).

Just going by what I see from the outsidw. But your more informative comments suggest I'm wrong on that.

Not a big follower of F1 so will lend further weight to your words than mine!

I still think his personality will hold him back, but will admit defeat on his ability - F1 fans know more than me.

Yeah I said to her I thought he was a dick. And he does come across that way massively. She got a bit cross actually and said he’s an elite athlete at the top of his game who has just or is about to race for an hour and a half at high speeds where one wrong move can kill him. He’s gonna be focused. Then she told me the above and then sent me a post from a friend of hers showing that he had given all those drinks to the helpers. He didn’t get much publicity for that it appeared on social media.

I agree his personality will stop him being truly loved.