For a significant part of the year, Hamilton was battling an opponent, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, whose car was most likely superior to his Mercedes as a general bundle and surely less sensitive. But then he has won more than twice the same number of races as the German and about three fold the number of post positions.
Without a doubt, Hamilton was helped by Ferrari’s implosion more than three races in Asia in September and October, when a driving mistake by Vettel and two motor issues successfully finished their test.
The race that at last secured it was somewhat muddled, through no blame of his own, yet the season in which Lewis Hamilton won his fourth world title has underlined his status as one of Formula 1’s record-breaking greats.
Hamilton’s best is of a standard few have ever coordinated, and this year he created his best maybe more regularly than any other time in recent memory. “He deserves it,” a downcast Vettel said on Sunday evening in Mexico. “He had a very, very strong season. Two races to go he clinches the championship. In a straight fight, he was the better man. So, congratulations.”
Hamilton as of now holds the untouched record for shaft positions, broken at the current year’s Italian Grand Prix. At 72 and checking, who knows where he may leave that before the finish of his career?
As far as titles, he is currently in magnified organization with just four different drivers ever – kindred fourfold champions Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel, five-time victor Juan Manuel Fangio and record holder Michael Schumacher, who has seven. At only 32 and in the best group, that unsured stamp looks reachable at this point.
Presently the holder of the unequaled record for shaft positions, he set up together no less than five qualifying laps to rank with the best he has ever done – Montreal, Baku, Silverstone, Monza and Malaysia were each amazing in the way they reclassified the view of what was conceivable.
Of his nine wins up until this point, no less than three were of the exceptionally most noteworthy gauge, and in altogether different ways – he battled back to catch and Vettel in Spain, held off a quicker Ferrari in Belgium, and came through against the chances with pace his group did not know they had in wet-dry Singapore. Also, three others, in Britain, Italy and the USA, were totally predominant.
