Lewis Hamilton took another pole position yesterday, the 98th in his career. Bottas was unable to beat his teammate again.
How can
Lewis Hamilton be faster and better? That is a question often asked in the media.
Peter Windsor, a
Formula 1 journalist, also wondered this. Yesterday he saw a disappointed Bottas who himself did not know how it was possible that he was defeated again. But Windsor thinks he knows why.
"You don't see that in the figures"
"
Sorry Valtteri, but the difference between you and Lewis riding on a set of new soft tyres is all about how you handle the dynamic weight. You could see that very well in turns 9 and 10. That's a part of the track you have to have a lot of feeling for. If you do it well there, you do it well everywhere. That all contributes to a good lap time. You don't see that in the numbers and telemetry, but that's what Lewis Hamilton masters right down to the tips of his fingers," he explains in a video on
YouTube."You could tell from his face after qualifying how much he enjoyed it. Just one perfect lap on a new set of tyres. For Lewis, that's what life has always been about. And I think that's why his motivation is still so high. For him it's all about getting out of bed in the morning, driving a Formula 1 car over a track as fast as he can and preferably while he's under a lot of pressure," Windsor concludes.