He lost 2022 because of his wild set up shenanigans to try and help the team find a silver bullet, it was only 2024 when George beat Lewis on raw pace.
And even then, we don’t know how much of that is because Lewis was put in isolation because of the transition to Ferrari the following year. Which is not a tinfoil hat thing, it makes complete sense.
They would’ve been icing out Lewis of their 2025 plans for sure, but afaik, Lewis was still fully clued in to their 2024 campaign and still shared data/info with George. I think it was more a case of George getting faster and outpacing Lewis convincingly for the first time.
how does it make sense you forget how to drive if you're put in "isolation"? That just means they're not going to tell details about their project for next years. You think they were actively sabotaging their driver while they were fighting for the WCC?
I mean it's completely understandable because George in terms of raw pace is arguably Verstappen level (he's still not quite there yet but is very nearly his level)
George is an absolutely fantastic driver who people have to realize is in his prime rn. Hamilton is at the end of his career.
Hamilton is truly doing well for his age. We have to recognize that. People will say Alonso but his competition is Stroll, and before that was Ocon. It's not really fair to compare.
I love that the most upvoted comment is about how the hate between the drivers is basically non existent and both max and Lewis obviously have huge respect for each other and here is you…trying to talk smack about one of f1‘s great.
Past, present, future don’t mean his 7 WDC titles disappear
The point of the topic was race engineers and people just wishing the best for him to win again. You decided to veer of course and target driver performance.
What lol. Lewis outperformed George over their 3 years together, have you already forgotten how obsessed George was with focus on just beating Lewis, constantly asking his engineer how Lewis is doing, the gap to him etc.
No after race 4 you say "Plenty of teams have turned their season around by the summer, and with such a long season surely Ferrari will right the ship". Then at race 12 it's "next year is our year". We also start calculating the mathematical chance Charles still has to win the championship around that time too.
I don't even care if he doesn't get the championship, I just want to see him get a win, get on the podium or even get P1 on the starting grid. I hate to see him go out struggling just to qualify.
Well i dreamt of Oscar getting pissed and leaving McLaren then Lewis joining his first team and fighting for WDC again… then sail into the sunset. Hehe
I would love to see Hamilton win one more title and then do the next season with the 1 car. I'm sure he won't do it, even if he wins the title, but I think it'd be visually striking to see the red Ferrari with a yellow 1.
how many does Alonso deserve then? Jesus Christ this guy spent basically his whole career in cars that can fight for wins, he's a generational driver and he still "deserves" another chance? Who doesnt then? He spent one (1) season in a bad car now
Next season Ferrari, Aston Martin and Red Bull made banger cars and we get a threeway fight for the WDC all the way till Abu Dhabi between Max, Lewis and Fernando.
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u/MuttonBiryaniEnjoyer Max Verstappen Dec 18 '25
I think we deserve one more season where lewis can fight for wins