silver wrote: ↑02 Jun 2022, 17:46
bluechris wrote: ↑02 Jun 2022, 14:51
PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑02 Jun 2022, 14:38
It's fine. He's focussed on developing the car like Michael schumacher used to do, into a race winner again.
Sorry but how do you know that? i mean a driver that is developing a car is moaning constantly because the car is bad? I haven't really heard George doing this in this champ, he put his head down and drives like there is no tommorow.
Anyway, for me is really early to say anything for Hamilton if he has lost it or anything. A guy with so many wins and championships doesn't forget how to drive suddenly. I think his psycology is not good atm because he has used the last years to drive a train/rocket so he needs some races to grasp that. In the other hand Russel came from dead last to one of the top 3 teams so even if you put him to compete with a cart and the others with an F1 car he will perform 150%.
We never heard anyone from Mercedes engineering team talking about Hamilton helping develop the car in a Schumacheresque manner. He maybe, but never heard of it. When there was a filming day in Paul Ricard, it was Russell who was testing and Hamilton was missing from the scene. Even on race weekends, Russell is trying different things while Hamilton is using conservative setup to avoid physical difficulties of the car. I am not saying it, a few pages back I have posted team personnel's statements. Other than Toto, for obvious reasons, if the likes of Shovlin, Meadows, Vowels or Elliot talks about Hamilton's contributions in developing this difficult car, we can take our hats off to him. Definitely not for fan statements.
Remember, in Schumacher's days when testing was allowed, he used to fly back to Fiorano on race weekends to test the car, working late nights. In 2005 when he had a similarly difficult year, nobody heard him complaining about the car in public or blasting his team on getting strategies wrong, but he kept getting best out of that car and drove with so much purpose. Schumacher comparison is a false equivalence.
And yet here is a comment by Shovlin, who has worked with both:
“If you look at how they drive, when Michael arrived at our team, the things that stood out with him were the way he would always go after the marginal. It doesn't matter if it's a hundredth of a second, he'd try and do it. He'd sort of collect those up.
Michael also had an ability to drive whatever balance was quickest, if it was an understeery car that he needed, he'd do it. If he needed to move the work onto the front tyres, he could. So he was very, very adaptable, in his driving style.
And those are certainly two characteristics that Lewis very much has. A lot of the good drivers don't have a particular style, it's just whatever's quick, they'll adapt to do it.”
This is from an article after Hamilton equalled Schumachers win record.
I think sharing those traits makes him quite ”Schumacheresque” and it kind of goes against your constant agenda that Hamilton is ”not putting the work in” and is driving conservative setups because it’s more comfortable.
Full article here, where he continues about how hard Hamilton works:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/hami ... n/4891999/
But yeah, missing a filming day really contradicts all of this I guess…