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Originally Posted by Artemis
And what do you think about the assumption that Verstappen lives rent free in your mind since Hamilton's F1 reign (7xWDC) crumbled in 2021 because of Verstappen (0xWDC back then) ? Verstappen as the splinter in your F1 mind ? - Points of fact - no opinion: after the Jeddah 2021 GP victory, there were only the Silverstone 2024 GP, the Spa-Francorchamps 2024 GP and the China 2025 Sprint. And that's it.
- Opinion: also this 2025 season, a twentysomething F1 driver will win the WDC (likely Piastri or Norris; Verstappen only if McLaren either makes truly colossal strategic mistakes or encounters multiple engine failures or misses both Piastri and Norris because of medical issues). Hamilton may still win a GP or a Sprint so now and then later this year, but his chances of still winning yet another WDC are as big as Senna still winning one as we speak. Wake up and smell the coffee: Hamilton's heyday as F1 driver ended the moment Verstappen overtook him fair and square in Turn 5 of the final lap of the Abu Dhabi 2021 GP. Time to move on.
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Everyone knows Max is a better driver and more talented and already has cemented his place higher in the all-time greats. Taking down the MB (the car was responsible for the winning, and the driver accounted for very little) was the start of it as you mentioned. Where the race came down to the most under pressure situation, Ham cracked like an egg. We could probably go through 2 or 3 dozen records that Max holds that Hamilton never even came close to even though Max also didnt have the most dominant car in history to do it like Ham did.
Ham is already claiming his Ferrari is the problem LOL. For years, he got a better and faster car than Ros (and still lost to him) and then got a faster car than Bot all those years and still needed team orders on countless occasions. He's always needed and unfair advantage to perform - kind of like Lance Armstrong and how he cheated every year he won the Tour de France.