Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Driver61" channel.

@dxfifa Indeed, if Hamilton had the gap to his teammate Verstappen had in quali he would have had pole. If Hamilton had done a good inlap the undercut wouldn't have worked. Hamilton's inlap was too slow compared to Bottas too. Mercedes still has the edge, just not enough to make their drivers look better than they are like in the past 7 years.
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No, Vettel is special in developping the car with the team, he's a real teamplayer, towards a specific balance with a planted rear. So he increases the gap with his teammate towards the season, if they fail to get him that balance he's not the allround natural talent that drives around that. That's why he was beaten by Ricciardo and went to spells with Ferrari that Raikkonen matching him instead of the usual 0.3-0.5 behind. Vettel is a not so very great driver that performed absolutely great in about 7 seasons. That's why I am a fan.
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Why do all British have to force Hamilton in like this? Hamilton teammate comparison will be looking very different from Verstappen's and Schumacher's. Adding Vettel to make it look less like Hamilton promotion doesn't help. Make those claims about Hamilton, well, make video about and actually show how he did against hastily found replacement teammates like Bottas and Kovalainen, but also Button and Russell.
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No idea why Hamilton had to be forced in into this video and discussion about these two greats.
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Ferrari came out the blocks flying in 2022, not RBR, Verstappen knocked them out before the RB took over as the fastest car. In 2021 Verstappen matched Mercedes, not the RB. Newey is a genius but not the only one, and the British obsessing with him is just a pathetic chauvinistic way to make it all about the car again now it's the British driver that gets exposed as heavily dependent on the most supreme car for the longest time in F1 history.
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What people miss about him is not that he reminds people of Senna, but that in the later stage of his career so far, he unleashed his inner Lauda too.
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@franklinniesterjr3812 It's a very different job. Hamilton simply never was that far out there.
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Except Schumacher beat a 3 times WDC teammate and the other ones were usually seen as great talents that would challenge him, until the first times sheets of the season showed up.
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@Bahamuttiamat Slightly worse qualifier. But Bottas didn't really set the midfield alight when he was out of the mighty Mercedes, did he? Is he evan ahead in the qualifying battle with Zhou? Bottas got 4 poles in 2021. Hamilton was always a beatable teammate, only Kovalainen didn't manage to be a regular threat. Button and Rosberg did, Russell did last year, Verstappen hasn't looked beatable in the same car for 4 years now.
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@Bahamuttiamat No, that's not what I said. Better drivers are better because they are better than other drivers, especially their teammates. There are some nuances to comparing teammates, but the greatest drivers don't get beaten regularly by their teammates. Otherwise those teammates would be just as great. Of course if Mercedes hadn't signed Hamilton but Kovalainen instead, Rosberg would have been an 8 times WDC, but of course not one of the greats.
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What about giving credit to the inventors of CVT and experimenting with it in race cars in the early 70's? No, there are not British and not as impolite, rude, arrogant and entitled either.
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@ktcool4660 Like he could. This is just the British milking the one time he was faster but wasn't allowed to win because they can't accept a non British driver being the best. Not with Schumacher, not with Vettel and now not with Verstappen.
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Correct. This also reminds of Alonso, where it doesn't work. Somehow there is a pattern in the cars of Alonso developping towards him in sense that the gap with his teammate grows immensely, but the gap to the frontrunners also grows throughout the seasons. He looks better while is car starts looking worse as the season progresses.
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Does he appreciate Max talent fully? The claim that the RB is the theoretically faster car is based on Verstappen's pace. Verstappen does the same thing to Perez as he did to Gasly and Albon. Maybe we should judge the car a bit more by what Perez does with it and appreciate that Verstappen outdrives it race after race? And maybe not atribute all appreciation for Verstappen to his raw talent but also to the effort he puts in, how he has developped his style, how he is analytical, technical, industrial, this is a much better driver than 5 years ago.
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@Bahamuttiamat But all his good team mates beat him regularly. Rosberg was not considered WDC material, Button was a somewhat accidental WDC, both were predicted to be 3 tenths behind Hamilton by the people who consider Hamilton one of the greats. He had most of his WDC's by beating a replacement dirver. I agree Gasly, Albon and Perez aren't WDC material except for a Brawn GP thing happening again. But look at the margin on what are basically very good F1 drivers, at least Bottas category. Every teammate of Hamilton had to be re-evaluated after the margin on them was disappointingly small. Bottas became some kind of quali animal, Zhou disagrees. Time to re-evaluate Hamilton himself.
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@Bahamuttiamat Feel free to compare Schumacher to any driver in his forties returning after a 4 year break. Barrichello, Irvine and Jos Verstappen were expected to become very good drivers and give Schumacher some stiff competition. They couldn't. It's always the other way around with non British drivers, Vettel was said to be beaten convincingly by Raikkonen too. What we see to have changed in the past 15 years is the pointy front end vs the planted rear end. That catches a lot of drivers out. Ricciardo struggled with the McLaren front end, so that was a disappointment but overall the difference with Norris isn't all that it is made out to be. Verstappen also is different driver than he was 5 years ago. "Mr. Saturday", "Mr. Consistency" should really have been Mr. Faster dan Hamilton, Mr. Better than Hamilton, Mr. not fucking up like Hamilton. Russell did get on pole and did win with that Mercedes, more than once even. The British media are coming up with all kind of stuff to try not to see that Hamilton is exposed as not such a very special driver. It's actually quite embarassing to read all that and to listen to the Sky comment, but appearently most people fall for it.
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