Lewis Hamilton is very close to his 7-th
World Championship in 2020. He will not be beaten by his teammate, Valtteri
Bottas. Bottas plays the second fiddle to Lewis over last three years. He is
unable to challenge Lewis, like Nico Rosberg did in 2014 and in 2016. Valtteri
is the pro, but inconsistent. Consistency is the key to win in motorsport at
every level, whether it is F1, WEC, WRC, IMSA, DTM or BTCC. Everyone knows
that, Valtteri knows that, but he is not good enough, bit like Rubens
Barrichello, when he was driving alongside Michael Schumacher at Ferrari in
early 2000s.
Speaking about the great Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton is very close to
equal his record in number of the race wins and championship titles.
Lewis is 35 and he is the leader of the mighty and the most dominant team in
the history of the F1, Mercedes. Mercedes have been winning everything over
last 7 years since the introduction of the hybrid power units to F1. The new
tech is massive investment and it favors the biggest teams, global brands like
Mercedes.
Lewis made the best decision of his career in 2013, when he joined Mercedes
team. He didn’t know, whether they could win the championship, but he took the
risk and left McLaren where he won his first title in 2008.
Lewis is involved in social campaign against racial abuses and equality, and
also he is proactive considering fashion business. He created the path to walk
away from the F1, but when? His contract expires by the end of the year,
possibly it will be extended by next two years until the end of 2022, if
current team principal, Toto Wolff will stay at the team. He will finally
leave, but I think he wants to do this as the champion, not driver passed by
Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon -
leaders of the young generation in F1.
Whether Lewis is about to retire now, or in 2022, it will be massive change to
F1. I remember Nico Rosberg retirement in 2016. It was shocking. Lewis might do
something like that in 2020.
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