Honestly, Sainz looked as good as him in their first season together. Jacques Villeneuve had a good season but he was paired with Hill, not Alonso. The thing people forget, when comparing him with Sainz, is that he was 17 years old. A M amam 19th March , Esploratore esploratore 20th March , GeeMac geemac 19th March , Steve 9th June , Valinor 19th March , Hamilton vs Alonso rivalry would have been something for the history books, forever remembered by F1 fans.
Ben Rowe thegianthogweed 19th March , If anything, I could argue that Alonso and Button will have been stronger in for example purely based on more experience, but the car could not allow them to show that.
But the circumstances of the team and other things around it make it so hard to compare. Hamilton was on the pace from the very first race. He overtook Alonso on the very first corner and finished on the podium in his first 9 races.
Yes, but I think he made a number of pretty silly mistakes such as in china. DrG 19th March , With respect He did not make that mistake. The greatest in their heads team in history made the mistake by leaving him out until his tyres were down to the canvas google the photos that had zero to do with the chap who was at the end of the day a complete rookie with no knowledge of how his tyres looked. That is quite some excuse you have got there. He made it around the other corners no problem.
Crashing at the stage he did where you need to be slower and more careful than the other corners was because he went too fast round the corner into the pits for the conditions. Both drivers carried to much speed. It was their mistake and was stupid at that, but more so for Hamilton as he beached it. With the speed Hamilton was carrying, it would have made more sense to keep going straight rather than onto the gravel.
DrG 20th March , His tyres were completely bald. Down to the canvas. Like I said look at the pictures. The slow speed robbed aero grip which is why it would drive on the track partly yet slid off on a slow tight corner. One that was later covered up in tarmac. You clearly have some odd agenda here. Whitmarsh kept Hamilton out despite Hamilton asking to come in many laps before. Whitmarsh cost Hamilton the WDC that year, basically because he wanted to give an advantage to Alonso.
I mean one is at the front and race after race your at the back? To the extent the team falls apart trying to cover for you? No wonder LH walked away. Funny thing. I have raced in different series with both of them.
Other racing classes but you always watch. I can assure you that LH was the most stunning fast driver I have ever seen in many many years of seeing these drivers come through. I was not alone. Jon Bee 19th March , Nick Fry, in his book. Jonathan Parkin 19th March , But then again so does Vettel. Look at all the wins he won at Red Bull.
Only one of those was off the front row and the reason for that was because Hamilton retired. NewVerstappenFan jureo 19th March , F1oSaurus f1osaurus 19th March , For those conditions. There were 3 of those Red Bull cars in the top 4 after qualifying. Even Bourdais made it to P4. Many seem to be looking at driver performance as a sole metric, which is purely on speed — and, even then, sometimes in a slightly subjective manner.
However, I would agree that a driver needs a wider repertoire of skills and focussing on a single trait often gives a misleading picture, as there have been examples of drivers who were certainly fast, but were unable, for various reasons, to capitalise on that. Equally, there is the issue of internal politics and whether divisions between drivers, or between drivers and their team, can hurt the team, such that their collective performance is less than the sum of their parts.
A classic example might be the fight between Reutemann and Jones during the season — whilst their driver pairing was considered to be stronger than Brabham, given Rebaque was not considered to be anything particularly special, the Williams team was torn apart by arguments between Reutemann and Jones over attempts to impose team orders and ultimately ended up underperforming, with Piquet able to take the WDC that season instead.
Arturo Melian Randolph 19th March , Someone on the team told Fernando that Lewis should have won. That made Fernando very angry because he could have gone two seconds a lap faster. But we always respected each other on the track.
And we always tried to fight hard, but with respect. But one of the standout moments of that season, for the wrong reasons, was at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Alonso then seemingly retaliated by holding himself in his pit box while refuelling for his final qualifying run, which then caused Hamilton to be unable to cross the line in time for another flying lap.
This had been seen as a seminal moment in the breakdown of the relationship between the two drivers, but Alonso wanted to clarify things. So, what exactly happened in qualifying that day?
When you look back there are maybe also times when you think you were lucky when you won. In Michael's engine broke down in the second last race So if you start counting there are races that maybe you shouldn't have won and races that you should have won. It's better to just take it as it comes and enjoy it," says the Alpine driver. When Lewis Hamilton joined McLaren as a teammate of Alonso there were many stories about the hostile atmosphere between the two.
However, according to Alonso, there was always mutual respect. But there was always respect between us, also on the track," said the Spaniard. General news Rumors. Video player. Column How have calendar changes affected the championship battle? Thursday 14 October Summary Thursday Verstappen criticises sprint race and problems at Mercedes Yesterday, 6.
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