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Comparing back to "the greats" is just a way to try to diminish the present. It's that simple. "He's not as good as X because X raced when things were different".
Any negative comparison between Hamilton and "the greats" from yesteryear must also apply to Schumacher. But somehow it doesn't. Surprise, surprise.
How old are you and how long have you been following Formula One motor racing?
Comparing back to "the greats" is just a way to try to diminish the present. It's that simple. "He's not as good as X because X raced when things were different".
Any negative comparison between Hamilton and "the greats" from yesteryear must also apply to Schumacher. But somehow it doesn't. Surprise, surprise.
How old are you and how long have you been following Formula One motor racing?
I'll be 50 very soon and have been watching F1 races since the mid 1980s. Not sure that's relevant to the discussion, however.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.
IMO - as great as “the greats” were back then, i just dont think the field was that competitive back then. Not as if that diminishes the achieved - you can only be as good as you needed to be to win. Applies to any era.
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Lewis Hamilton might have topped up stats, but even then he’s still nowhere near the greats
To begin with he only had to beat only one or 2 drivers since 2014. Total Mercedes dominance, they dominated harder than Ferrari did in the early 2000s
He jumped in to mercedes when they were already the winning Mercedes, he didn’t make or form or structure the team like at least Schumacher did, and we can argue that Merc wouldn’t have been so successful without the input from MSC in the first place
The only driver who managed to beat him at “home” retired right away. (The story of it being too tough mentally still sounds a bit like a fairy tale)
They also got the perfect n2 driver after Rosberg which is bottas
His whole image is only getting darker and darker the more he mixes political/religious beliefs with F1
I mean, objectively speaking, he got a lucky strike that nobody will ever have again
Topped up stats but still far away from the greats. He does get away with that clownish style of his because F1 is much more of a mainstream thing
For example, Montoya arguably never beat anybody, but he was a character indeed, Alonso is another modern example
Hamilton will undoubtedly be remembered, it’s just that nobody would think of him had he decided to go somewhere else than Mercedes
This is also aside from the certain fakeness in current F1 that makes it unwatchable. The press, the racing and the teams, it does feel like a tv show sadly
Phil how does that explain that modern greats like Moss and Stewart saying that Fangio was the GOAT?
People say all sorts of things and it doesn't really mean anything. Moss was much closer to Fangio in terms of his racing era than the modern guys, he had no idea what modern F1 was like, the talent it took and the difficulties of being competitive in modern machinery. Stewart is similar, closer to Fangio's time than Vettel or Hamilton's for example.
The modern guys are so competitive and highly trained/tuned that a guy like Fangio would be trampled underfoot with relative ease by anyone on the grid today. Bring Fangio as a child to the modern era and give him the modern treatment though, then we'd maybe see magic happen.
Phil how does that explain that modern greats like Moss and Stewart saying that Fangio was the GOAT?
Moss modern? I'm a huge fan of his but there's no way he was "modern". Stewart likewise - he retired in '73 after all. That's nearly 50 years ago. Hardly "modern".
Both are definitely in the pantheon of greats, however.
I'm with them that Fangio is the GOAT. His figures are just ridiculous, even allowing for the rules etc., that were in place at the time.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.
Interesting bit on the telly about Michael's Monaco qualifying "crash" that tried to stop Alonso getting pole. Massa stated that Michael admitted to him that he had done it on purpose. So that's one argument put to bed.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.
Interesting bit on the telly about Michael's Monaco qualifying "crash" that tried to stop Alonso getting pole. Massa stated that Michael admitted to him that he had done it on purpose. So that's one argument put to bed.
Yeah, I saw a bit on that a few weeks ago. the night before it was discussed between Michael, Ross Brawn and Felipe Massa. Massa thought it was all just a joke. the next day, it actually happened.
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