Why Lewis Hamilton deserves to be 10 times world champion

   2012 can be added to the list below because McLaren is the fastest car, but a series of hits and misses gave Hamilton the chance to challenge Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso in his final year before moving to Mercedes for 2013. Got it.

  2007 Hamilton made his own heroic start to his F1 career by dancing around the outside of Alonso in his McLaren at the first corner of his first race in Australia. There’s nothing better than talking to a world champion about your thoughts on the number 1 sticker on his car.

   Tensions arose between the pair throughout the season, with the famous Hungarian GP receiving a point that came out of Monaco when Hamilton was well advised to maintain his position behind Alonso.

   The second race of the year begins. McLaren was fined $100 million for Spygate and fired from the Manufacturers & but three races into the title, good cop Bernie Ecclestone convinced bad cop Max Mosley not to fire Hamilton. or Alonso for Drivers Hamilton, heading to China, has 107 points, Alonso 95 points, Kimi Raikkonen 90 points. That’s 10 points, so Raikkonen has 17 points and only 20 points left on the board. Hamilton took the win, beating Alonso by one point and Raikkonen by six.

   But McLaren committed to their own driver, Alonso, and prevented Hamilton from using many of his intermediates as Raikkonen took victory and took the sand trap. This means that the positions heading into Brazil are 107 for Hamilton, 103 for Alonso and 100 for Raikkonen.

   Hamilton spun out at Turn 4 on the first lap, and although the gearbox dropped him down the field, forcing him to recover, his tires were badly damaged. If Raikkonen had won, he would have needed 5th place to take the title, but he could only finish 7th on the lap because Raikkonen had an accident with teammate Felipe Massa during his last pit stop… Raikkonen could only finish 7th on the lap. tail .. He knows exactly what’s going on behind the scenes of politics, but he can’t talk about it because his hopes of being world champion are gone.

   2010 This feels like a heroic defeat for Hamilton that has been forgotten. However, he came from his DNF after two rounds for the Spanish Grand Prix.

   Hamilton, who was second behind Mark Webber, suffered a puncture entering the third barrier and lost 18 points, three more to Vettel and Alonso. As you can see in the table below, the final positions after four laps in Abu Dhabi have Hamilton on 240 points, 16 points behind champion Vettel. If Vettel loses the 18 points he lost and the three bonus points he earned in Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​If 2007 had gone ahead, victory in 2010 would have been his third in four years in F1.

ACTUAL 2010 F1 STANDINGS

IF HAMILTON FINISHES SECOND AT THE SPANISH GP

2016 Much of the talk of missing out on the 2016 title stemmed from an engine failure Hamilton suffered while leading in Malaysia. This was one of their biggest events last year.

  But it cost him nothing. Many puffs started from a vertical base. In Australia, Bahrain, Spain and Italy he started from pole but failed to win. In Spain, he raced alongside his teammate Nico Rosberg. In Melbourne and Monza, Hamilton finished second behind Rosberg with 14 points each, while in Bahrain he finished third with 20 points to Rosberg.

   When Rosberg won last year’s penalty weekend in Azerbaijan, he ran 30 laps, engine problems leaving Hamilton in fifth. In the end, Rosberg won the title by just five points and performed the biggest mic drop in history as he pulled away and retired, ensuring Hamilton was completely out of contention.