Can you tell me why Hamilton has won 7 titles and Bottas none considering there in the same car?
Can you also tell me why Rosberg only won one title (( which he got very lucky )) when also in the same car as Hamilton.
Can you tell me why Alonso who's one of the best drivers of his era couldn't beat Hamilton?
Bottas is happy to sit there and be a No. 2. His drive in the last race summed up what he is.
Alonso, the driver you deemed "average" recently, could beat Hamilton and did. As world champion, he demanded No. 1 status though, and when he didn't get it, he walked.
Rosberg unlike Kovaleinen and Bottas, wasn't happy to be a No. 2, took the challenge to Hamilton in a fair fight, and deserved the title he got. Having achieved what he wanted all his life, he promptly packed it in. That year, the team decided to switch their engineers around, and Hamilton accused the team of stitching him up. If he retired for mechanical failure, he accused his German team of favouring his German teammate over him. Whenever he had contact with other drivers, it was, and still is, their fault. This year, he accused race stewards of trying to "steal" races from him, because he broke the rules. He regularly rants at his engineers during races for daring to have a different opinion about race strategy to his. He can never admit to a mistake of his own doing, and doesn't realise it's not always somebody else's fault on the rare occasion he doesn't coast over the line by half a lap.
When some drivers, even stewards/organisers questioned the pointless protests held before every race, it was apparantly their fault for not complying with his demands. I thought his political stunt on the podium in Mugello was disgraceful, when he should have been thanking the local medics for doing such a great job in the region, to the extent that the race could be held there at all. But no, his own cause was more important. The message itself failed to have the desired effect. All it achieved was get the sport's bosses to take steps to prevent it happening again.
I've been watching F1 since the mid-nineties. Back then, every championship went to the wire, as rival drivers spurred each other on to finish first. As a neutral I appreciated that level of competition more than the current era, where the winning driver is known before the lights go out.
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