Jenson Button is te gast in de podcast Collecting Cars, which mentions Lewis Hamilton. When the host suggests that Hamilton is ‘a freak show’ due to the almost inhuman lack of errors, Button has to agree, immediately recording that he sees a different Lewis Hamilton today than in his time at McLaren.
“He is right now, indeed.” Looking at racepace compared to Valtteri Bottas’s … It’s actually quite funny. Today’s Lewis is a different Lewis from the one I knew in the McLaren era. He was lightning fast in qualifying, but in the race he often made mistakes and simply didn’t know how to get from A to B, “said Button.
“He would try to drive as fast as possible every lap, so that he smoked his tires way too fast, used too much gasoline and used the wrong strategies. Now it’s completely different and we don’t see him doing that anymore. to ensure that he is not challenged by, for example, Max Verstappen, or, for example, by a Nico Rosberg. “
Button refuses to mention his own name in that list, but the fact is that Button Hamilton was able to offer a good match with McLaren. The 2009 champion even says they were so well matched it cost McLaren a driver’s title: “We did great races together, but he was faster in qualifying.”
“In the race I often had the upper hand, I really came into my own, especially in changing circumstances. I enjoyed our fights and it was a great shame that he left the team. I wish we could get together someday. one team could compete in a car that was truly championship worthy. However, if one of us hadn’t been in the other car, we could have won a driver’s title. So many points and victories we took in those years.
Is Hulkenberg the ideal teammate for Max Verstappen? Tom Coronel, Ruud Dimmers and host Thomas van Groningen discuss it below in the latest RN365 podcast.
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