Hamilton aims for win at Silverstone: 'It would be an incredible result'
Having won his home race eight times already, Lewis Hamilton is in his element back at Silverstone, where - unlike Max Verstappen - he can count on a warm welcome. In fact, the Mercedes driver is so positive he believes he can compete at the front of the field for victory.
Many Formula 1 teams are taking updates to Silverstone, including Mercedes. The German team hopes to take a big step towards solving its problems, but also hopes to close the gap to Ferrari and Red Bull Racing.
Hamilton believes in victory at Silverstone
As far as Hamilton is concerned the British Grand Prix is an excellent opportunity to do so. Asked by Martin Brundle if he can achieve his ninth home win this weekend, the Mercedes driver replied with a resounding 'yes!'. "That is what we will be working on together," Hamilton said during a Sky Sports broadcast.
"We have had a difficult year, and it's definitely not what we have been hoping for but I feel like we have strengthened in so many other ways," the Briton continued. He praised the hard work of the staff at the Mercedes factory and stated that the difficult start to the season had brought the team "closer together". "We are working towards that first win. It would be an incredible result if we got that this weekend," Hamilton said.
Everytime I come on here I just see a load of bickering middle aged men still hung up and disagreeing on something that happened 12 months ago and isn't relevant to this season anymore. Move on with you lives losers.
Thanks Mitty, we will do that immediately. Warm Regards, Humphrey.
Lewis is a funny guy. He has absolutely no hope of a podium other than mishaps to the other 4-5 drivers currently ahead of him. Even if Mercedes cheated their way to a car competitive enough to go wheel to wheel with the top 5 in the points, he doesnt have the talent to out race these guys. Anything below a 25km/h advantage for him has him struggling as Max confirmed last year. AsI said, a funny guy.
I hope LH won't be hitten Max rear wheel and sent him to retire from the race this time. LH knows the best why he has done to Max car at the 2021 British GP. He can avoid the crash but he chose to clip rear wheel of Max's car. I want to see clean fight from both of them. Also, FIA intervention of porpoising problems in LH Mercedes' car was not right and Toto shouldn't have cried out loud for help from FIA.
Nice jacket. I little too sissy for my taste. Don't worry about winning Lewis, you need to beat your teammate first.
I couldn't help LMAO. To me it looks like a multi coloured condom that has popped at the top.
Hamilton believes in victory at Silverstone .....Hope he brought his magic button with!!!
I feel like Lew would be better off focusing on beating his teammate. Russell is beating him 6-2 it's one of the most lopsided head to heads on the grid.
Be careful, Lewis might rise again. Probably not. Max has taken the throne.
Lol ham the clown big him self up to win .well lets see if they let you race befor anything
There are approximately 8 current drivers whose skill levels suggest that Lewis will be lucky to secure 1 point. 2020 has confirmed him as no more than a standard mid field standard driver.
I'll stick to the topic introduced. Yes, if there is a circuit where the Mercedes could win at this point in their development, this is it. They were fastest of all the cars on the recently paved and very smooth sections in Montreal, but slower on the older, bumpier tarmac. Silverstone is very smooth and it has been completely resurfaced. They will be able to run the very low ride height without the other issues on this surface and could be very fast. Not sure of a win but they will be much, much closer to Red Bull and Ferrari here.
Leave last year in the past and see what happens before you all start bitching about the result
'Lewis Hamilton is in his element back at Silverstone, where - unlike Max Verstappen - he can count on a warm welcome Last year, English fans showed their worst side by cheering when Verstappen crashed heavily due to contact with Hamilton. Even after that, Lewis was received honorably and with remarkable and in that part of season poorly deserved respect by the Orange Army in Zandvoort. That respect will be over this year and turn more hostile if the British fans can't show respect again.
as long as Looo loooo doesn t kill Russell like almost he killed Max last year he has no chance to win
Part of the MB upgrades this weekend include the "extra spicy" imagination
Well let's hope there is some redemption after last year's debacle ?
Even if by some miracle the Merc is competitive you would have to beat your teammate first and that's not going to happen.
If this happens in a clean race, I'll stop watching F1. Not because Hamilton have a chance, it is just because Mercedes is far behind and even with new directives imposed by the FIA, only inside information would help them gain so much speed.
Just be careful when Max laps you. We already know your double standards
It will be a miracle if he gets the 3rd place.....I don't know if Mercedes will win a race this season.
It good that he believes in a victory, but to actually win you have to finish first, just saying.
MB openly entertaining the possibility of a win.....something has changed....allison..toto....elliot and now lewis...ummm something is afoot
Yes, the FIA working closely with them in a big assist. In any other sport it would be called cheating but in f1 it's called business as usual.
You mean brawn whose dislike for ll things toto and MB is well recorded on these forums ?
"the FIA working closely with them in a big assist. In any other sport it would be called cheating" Do you apply this reasoning and logic to Abu Dhabi? FIA official working closely with Red Bull.... how's it different except, of course, the FIA broke the rules there.
Lewis you are a one pony show. Just focus on the future and try to beat your team mate this weekend. Then work on beating the other top 4 or 5. But don't try and rewrite history its unbecoming.
Are you feeling ok? Did you take your meds? Why do you think I'm Lewis Hamilton? Is it the profile pic that's confusing you?
There were no rules broken, the racedirector has the autority to overrule the rules. For your simple mind : if your on the street and a police officer orders you to drive while your light is red then no rule is broken .
"Race director has the ultimate authority over restart procedures." Yes he does, but that just means he is the main guy. But, it doesn't mean he gets to break the rules or make them up as he goes along. "44, you need to be tranquilized." Is that so you don't have to melt your brain trying to deal with me? :) Don't cry. "I noticed no one likes your posts here. Not so popular..." Firstly, I'm not here to be popular. This isn't a popularity contest. Likes don't concern me. But I'm getting around 100 a day and coupled with my other account they total over 25,000. Enjoy your 1053. :)
Race director has the ultimate authority over restart procedures. 44, you need to be tranquilized. I noticed no one likes your posts here. Not so popular...
" the racedirector has the autority to overrule the rules" LOL, who told you this nonsense?? No he doesn't. He can't just make the rules up as he goes along. Don't be so ridiclous and ignorant. The RD has flexibilities but the limit of those are outlined in the rules too. Jeez no wonder your conclusions are all wrong when you don't even understand the fundamentals. And you think I'm the one with the simple mind. You're embarrassing yourself.
@Dang +155530-06-2022 19:38 They are finally title sponsored by a bouncy castle firm? Tigger let's bounce some more!
Yeah same like no side pods and we fixed porpoising, and our car was the fastest in Spain . Then crying when FIA did something about porpoising, which is like opposite, if you don’t have porpoising why it bothers you that FIA will order teams that have it to raise the floor?
Mate those are the things Toto and Mercedes team said , you missed when Toto said that Mercedes had the best pace in Spain ?? You couldn’t decipher that all those things are associated with Mercedes ??
How many cars is he going to pit maneuvre of the track for his aim.
Then he can forget about winning in Silverstone . He has to find his inner dirtbag again.
It's been a breath of fresh air and most illuminating to see.
By 90% of fans posting on message boards across the web. Don't pretend you haven't noticed. George beating up on Lewis has become a regular occurrence every weekend.
Who by? Anti-Hamilton trolls? Certainly not by anyone that matters.
Questions are being raised about Lewis' legacy and it only gets worse from here.
Max was om the outside and way in the front! lewis had no controle of his car because he went in to hard! on purpose, i say yes with his race experience he should know better, he just knew exactly what would happen, he did the same on Leclerc nut than how it should be done, and than that comment on the radio "i was in front and he turned into me"
Way in front :) Haha. Lewis was almost all alongside before the corner. Lewis was in control the entire time. He put in as much steering as he could. Max should have known Lewis would need more room because of the line he would need to take into the corner. Lewis played Max at this own game. Aggression. But Max wasn't expecting that and he thought Lewis had backed off. He was wrong and he drove into Copse as if Lewis had backed out. That was Max's mistake. Leclerc showed Max what he should have done. Although LeClerc went really wider than he needed to. Fine margins in this sport and Max make an assumption that turned out to be not correct. Max DID turn into Lewis. But no Lewis wasn't in front, I will concede that point. He was alongside enough to deserve to be given room. Max did give him room before the corner but as soon as they went in, Max closed the space. Go watch it.
I don't agree that Lewis came up short at all. Max had a great car. And Lewis had Max beaten at the final hurdle, where Lewis dominated Abu Dhabi and was on his way to the 8th title. Max came up short there. That was until the safety car and Red Bull interfering with the SC process and coercing Masi into doing things that were against the SC rules. This manipulated the race in Max's favour, and he ended up winning the race. Had the rules been followed, Max could not have won.
I’m not promoting Max, his actions on track over this last 2yrs speak louder than any words. We all know that Bottas didn’t hit Norris (who hit Max) on purpose in Hungary but I think everyone especially Lewis thought that after the collision at Silverstone and the hit on Max in Hungary, over which Max lost just under 50 points and the WDC lead, the writing on the wall that the same was going to happen to Max which happened to Vettel in 2017 & 2018. But Max came back even stronger after that 2-race calamity by winning at Zandvoort with both Mercedes on his tail the entire race. When Lewis resorted to mind games with Max saying that he didn’t agree that Max didn’t feel any pressure going for his 1st WDC and then Lewis also resorted to gamesmanship during FP1 at COTA ‘racing’ Max down the straight I knew that there was nothing Lewis could do to try and unsettle Max. With everything that Lewis threw at Max to distract him Lewis still came up short against Max and if Mercedes was competitive this year with Lewis going up against Max again for the WDC, he would come up short again because Max is driving like Senna and Schumi drove in their prime and how Lewis drove in 2008 and he is just getting stronger and better every race.
People's assumptions are irrelevant as to who was to blame. Horner told Max to be careful as Lewis would be extra determined on home soil. Max failed to heed that warning such was his desperation to beat Lewis at his home GP. Lewis' move was far from clumsy. It would have gone without incident had Max not assumed that Lewis was not there and turn in as if he wasn't. Max had much more room to his left to work with. By comparison, Lewis had very little. Max should have been more cautious going into Copse but his lack of awareness as to where Lewis was resulted in him clipping Lewis' wheel. As for wheel-to-wheel driving, every time that presented itself, Max responded by refusing to battle with Lewis and instead push him off the track. We saw that time and time again. The only way Max could stay ahead was to push Lewis off, so that's what he did. Lewis DID win the race, there is no 'might' about it. Bottas hit Norris in Hungary. Max was not taken out, he was in the race to the end. Max was indirectly affected by Bottas' collision with Norris so don't make it sound like Bottas tried to take Max out. That's just ridiculous. You're just posting to do PR on Max. Concentrate more on being accurate than promoting Max.
That incident at Silverstone was the turning point in the season last year because that’s what everyone assumed was going to happen - the 2 of them colliding into each other. But between the experienced 7time WDC and the 23yr old driving a car able to challenge the Mighty Mercedes for the WDC for the first time, it was Lewis who caused that collision by attempting a desperate clumsy move that gave Max the moral victory over Lewis and the confidence for Max to realise that Lewis was all at sea in wheel-to-wheel racing against an equally talented rival in an equally matched car. Lewis might have won the race and Max crashed out with no points and being clearly shaken by the impact. Lewis thought that psychologically he might have the wood over Max but even after Bottas took him out in Hungary but Max strong mental capacity came back even stronger and Lewis with all his experience was given his biggest challenge against an elite and special driver in equally matched cars - the last time Lewis experienced a rival of that cd
Are you a vegan warrior too? Lewis got the penalty in Silverstone, stop arguing. He was primarily at fault according to the race stewards.
for sure he believes that, and for sure he wants to, but if he suddenly should win by what miracle, I would look at the Fia , till now this far behind and just because it is Silverstone the seconds are gone, keep dreaming.
What is the lyrics of the first line in the song Dreamer by Supertramp? Think it goes something like "Dreamer, nothing like a dreamer" .....
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