markc wrote:It's so much like Prost/Senna in my eyes:
Smooth Vs Aggressive
Strategy Vs Instinct
I personally love the dynamic in Macca, and I think they're the better team for it.
Although I love Lewis, the Senna/Prost comparison is not fair in my view. I recon Button is more like Prost (although Prost in my view was faster over a single lap) than Hamilton is like Senna. Perhaps unsurprisingly as Prost is a quadruple F1 champion and Button just won once.
Hamilton is tremendously talented at car control and driving a quick lap, perhaps moreso than anyone on the grid in 2012. He can string a championship together aswell. But Hamilton also fails frequently at lunges and marginal situations 50%-50% even with drivers of just Massa's calibre.
Senna never ever crashed while overtaking in his entire career (especially not with no#2 drivers, or made stupid lunges (bar 1, but the crash reason was the other driver closing the door, as was their right).
Senna seemed to be wiser and had his victims in overtaking much more under control than Lewis at his age.
One must also not forget the mental capacity differences between drivers. Many engineers of the era admit that Prost and Senna were gifted individuals in terms of intelligence and had very high I.Q.'s.
In that light Hamilton sometimes just reminds me of Jean Alesi, i.e. tremendously exciting to watch but very crash prone. I mean simply driving into a gravel trap during a routine pitstop when the championship was at stake? (2007)? Senna would never to that.
Although I'm no Alonso fan, Fernando has a maturity/wiseness that echos Senna more than does Hamilton. But Alonso is weak in the head when the going gets tough if 2007 is any indication. Senna just dug deeper in himself in '89 when faced with the Prost rivalry.
I just hope Hamilton gets his act together in the next few years as he remains my favourite driver.
F1 car width now 2.0m (same as 1993-1997). Lets go crazy and bring the 2.2m cars back (<1992).
