From 2014 to 2020, Lewis Hamilton won 6 F1 world titles out of a possible 7. Only one from 2016 eluded him, falling into the hands of his then partner, Nico Rosberg. Mercedes’ dominance from the beginning of the hybrid era was overwhelming. Only Nico made it difficult for him on the course, and then, with Bottas as a partner, Lewis drove the car more than anyone else. There are 7 courses of undisputed victory of his car. Only in 2021 could he have another equally fast car as an opponent, Max Verstappen’s Red Bull, which ended up winning the game in one of the most memorable and controversial finishes in F1 history. However, despite the fact that this dominant car was key for Hamilton to now have 7 titles, 103 victories, 103 pole positions, 62 fastest laps and 194 podiums, the Briton from Stevenage, now without dominant car as Max Verstappen does Want to make a proposal in Formula 1 to avoid having one team above the others as is currently the case with Red Bull. Obviously, his great rival Max Verstappen didn’t like that.
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“In my 17 years of being here, even before I got here, you always see a dominance period and it just keeps happening. I was very lucky to have one of those periods of dominance and now Max is having it, but the way it is is that it happens over and over again. And I don’t think we need that in sport.”Hamilton disputed the statements published on the specialist portal ‘RaceFans’.
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In this sense, Hamilton remembered that when a team starts better than others at the beginning of the course, it can take advantage of developing the next year’s car earlier than its rivals, something that allows here to extend its dominance.
“In my personal experience, when you’re that far, if you’re 100 points ahead, you don’t need to develop any more on your car and you can start earlier on your next car. With a budget constraint, that means spending that year’s money on next year’s car.”Lewis argued.
“But if everyone has a time limit for the car next year, if everyone knows that you can only start work from any date, then no one is in the lead and then it’s a real race in that short space of time. time for the car of the future”English argument.
“Maybe that will help everyone be closer next year. But I could be wrong. When we won the world championships, we could start before everyone else. And then there are teams that are so uncompetitive that they don’t bother to work on the current car.”.
“If you look at Brawn, they were completely committed to next year’s car from the beginning and then they showed up the next year and bombed everything. And it shouldn’t be possible, in my opinion,” said Hamilton, considering that “it would be great to see in the next 20 years that we don’t have big times where one team dominates so much, because we want to see better racing.”
replied Verstappen
Short-lived answer Max Verstappen at the Austrian F1 GP. “We didn’t talk about these things when Lewis won his titles… so I don’t think we should now.”Verstappen commented on British television ‘Sky Sports’.
Source: La Verdad
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