Current Lewis Hamilton

A place to put all the posts from all the other threads primarily but love him or hate him, and even for the indifferent amongst us this is the place to discuss the marmite that is Lewis Hamilton, to learn a thing or two about his rise, talk about those controversial, genius or mad moments and something that i am bemused by, the recent articles that suggest something quite different to my perception of what's going on. Any experiences of meeting LH?

Brundle had to write a Lewis Hamilton article recently and in my tweets (which were probably ignored) I asked him to talk about LH the driver not LH the personality. It seems that you can't have one without the other.

So as a starter for ten, here is a fairly recent LH article. Posts should not be limited to this link but it can get some discussion going. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13755883.stm

The only banned topic as it is clearly ridiculous involves these four things "Glock" "2008" "Brazil" "conspiracy"

 

[Il_leone]

Hamilton is in a strong bargaining position. If you have not heard Mercedes actually cut jobs in their car building business and have shifted their focus on E - cars and no doubt looking at Formula E and investing in it seriously so will this mean that their F1 programme will not be as high priority with resources moved elsewhere. Hamilton achievement's is great marketing for Merc so if he were to leave. Mercedes might take a while to get back to the front and surely they would not contemplate signing Alonso for 2021 ??

 

[olegg]

Valentino Rossi on the F1 car VS Lewis Hamilton on the MotoGP byke

 

[F1Brits_90]

Lewis Hamilton came 2nd in bbc sports personality of the year. no surprise to me because ben stokes did deserve it man of match in cricket world cup final & then that incredible innings at headingley his name was on the trophy

 

[Titch]

Why are there so many empty spaces in two of the above posts ? Am I missing pictures ?

 

[Titch]

Go Ben Stokes! I went to school in Cockermouth from the age of 11 when we moved to that area because of my Dads job. The rest of my school days were spent there , at the time Tennis was a big thing at school, as was hockey, netball, football and rugby. I don’t remember cricket.
i guess it changed.

 

[Dartman]

Yes you are Titch

 

[cider_and_toast]

Lewis Hamilton with one win and 4 second places is now the joint greatest sports Personality nominated person ever. His personality record of 5 places means he has the same personality record as Steve Davis however Steve Davis has 1 win, 2 seconds and 2 thirds. They both have to go some way to match Andy Murray for wins and who has been a winning personality on 3 occasions.

 

[olegg]

Lewis Hamilton Reunited with his Six F1 Championship Cars

 

[olegg]

The Highest-Paid Athletes Of The Decade:
Mayweather, Ronaldo And LeBron Dominate

#10 Lewis Hamilton: $400 million
The six-time F1 World Champion is the most marketable athlete in the sport and commands the biggest paycheck.

 

[F1Brits_90]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1210706992106528771

https://twitter.com/x/status/1210693855483453448

https://twitter.com/x/status/1210710450775744512

 

[F1Brits_90]

is it just me but i am against this. because we cant forget Lewis has a MBE so he is recognised, i am so not saying he doesnt fully deserves a knighthood because he does but only once he finished.

i have always been strongly against active sportsman competing as sir's

 

[cider_and_toast]

But, but, but he is a Black Man dominating in a White Man's sport because we all know that F1 has been a hot bed of racial discrimination for decades.

 

[F1Brits_90]

also what i thought of after posting is that we please these & give Lewis Hamilton a knighthood for 6. his career is not over & are given no room for what happens if he matches or surpasses Schumacher. if andy murray next year had got a knighthood for services to tennis & all his achievements nobody wouldve minded if anything it wouldve meant more than given in constant cycle of preparing for the next grand slam like it was

 

[Dartman]

Perhaps he hasn't got one for the same reason Beckham hasn't got one, whatever that reason is, maybe trying too hard to be worthy

 

[Brogan]

It's all a load of bollocks anyway but when someone who won a series of The Great British Bake Off a few years ago is awarded an MBE, it's apparent how meaningless it is.

 

[Andyoak]

It's time you entered Bake Off, Brogan

 

[Titch]

It’s all a load of rubbish. Their are exceptional circumstances where bestowing a knighthood is warranted, but they are very rare.
Getting one for doing your job well is a load of bollocks. Look at the list..... singers, songwriters, sportsmen and women, other professions, mostly people who have no impact on my life or yours, other than for a fleeting moment, perhaps. Mostly I couldn’t give a monkeys toss about any of them.
And they certainly don’t give a monkeys toss about us. The cult of celebrity.
It’s all Rubbish.

 

[Johnny Carwash]

The honours system is pretty pointless if Paul Collingwood can get an MBE for scoring 17 runs in an Ashes series.

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

In response to Hairy Bottas - Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch.

 

[olegg]

Formula 1 drivers (WC and some other):
Largest position gain to WIN
Rank Nr - Name - Position Gain - Grand Prix
4 - Kimi Räikkönen - 16 - 18/2005
5 - Jackie Stewart - 15 - 3/1973
6 - Michael Schumacher - 15 - 11/1995
7 - Fernando Alonso - 14 - 15/2008
9 - Alan Jones - 13 - 12/1977
12 - Jenson Button - 13 - 13/2006
13 - Lewis Hamilton - 13 - 11/2018
16 - Alain Prost - 12 - 6/1990
18 - Jim Clark - 11 - 3/1962
19 - Nigel Mansell - 11 - 10/1989
22 - Jody Scheckter - 10 - 1/1977
25 - Denny Hulme - 9 - 1/1974
29 - Niki Lauda - 9 - 11/1985
30 - Daniel Ricciardo - 9 - 8/2017
32 - John Surtees - 8 - 9/1967
34 - Jochen Rindt - 7 - 3/1970
36 - Keke Rosberg - 7 - 14/1982
38 - Nelson Piquet - 7 - 5/1991
42 - Mike Hawthorn - 6 - 5/1953
46 - Jack Brabham - 6 - 8/1967
47 - Emerson Fittipaldi - 6 - 4/1973
53 - Graham Hill - 5 - 2/1968
64 - Ayrton Senna - 4 - 1/1990
66 - Mika Häkkinen - 4 - 17/1997
69 - Phil Hill - 3 - 7/1961
71 - Mario Andretti - 3 - 1/1971
76 - Damon Hill - 3 - 3/1995
78 - Max Verstappen - 3 - 5/2016
79 - Nino Farina - 2 - 7/1950
80 - Alberto Ascari - 2 - 7/1951
81 - Juan Manuel Fangio - 2 - 1/1954
86 - James Hunt - 2 - 8/1975
89 - Jacques Villeneuve - 2 - 12/1996
90 - Juan Pablo Montoya - 2 - 7/2003
91 - Sebastian Vettel - 2 - 3/2010
92 - Nico Rosberg - 2 - 1/2014
93 - Valtteri Bottas - 2 - 4/2017
100 - Felipe Massa - 1 - 3/2008
103 - Mark Webber - 1 - 16/2009