PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑26 Jun 2020, 22:49
Top five is easy to do since the leading six cars are miles in front of the mid-field. So 3rd best car needs to be put in context.
I´d say top five is the less Max can do, third car so only four cars are faster, and he unquestionably is the favourite in RBR so probably the F1 driver who will have less pressure from his teammate. If he´s not fifth at least it would be a disaster
TimW wrote: ↑27 Jun 2020, 09:02
By that rationale LH's titles were easy to do as well
Yes
He has to beat his teammate, but the rest of the F1 grid have to beat his teammate but also several other drivers, some with faster cars so yes, by comparison LH titles were easy, same as Vettel, Senna, Prost, Mansell, Schumacher or any other who won with a dominant car. The hardest part is earing that seat. But this is F1, it´s not a driver competition but a team competition, they had the best car and if not the best one of the best drivers, and they won.
But I´m sure Hamilton drove much faster and performed much better (rookies mistakes aside) in 2007 than in 2019, even when he didn´t win the title. With best car the driver always have a margin to not take more risks than necessary, at least once his teammate is under control so he´s not constantly on the limit like in 2007 when there was no dominant car and 3-4 drivers were all so close there was no margin for anyone