His genius is indeed frightening

but why someone old?

@@cdel4391 Because they've got more experience in rainy conditions.

I’ve seen Verstappen handle rain fantastically in many races. That red bull must be very bad for him to be struggling so much with it recently

When did he say that

Zack Brown was looking a bit like Binotto today.

​@@kxng1191Zack isn't the one making the decisions, saying Stella would probably be closer to the mark

I was just going to say that myself. This race was McLaren’s to lose and they did. They should have had 2 cars on the podium but ended up managing a 3rd place finish for their troubles

And Lando is doing a Vettel. Making mistake after mistake at crucial times in the race.

@@martingonzalez2850 what was his mistake in this race? If McLaren puts a set of new mediums on his car after the inters came off, he likely wins the race running away. Even if they’d brought him in a lap earlier when they should have and put the softs on, he’d have been passed by both Hamilton and Verstappen before the race ended. Sure he euchred himself in Austria, but in this race his team did a Ferrari.

Lewis is currently googling how to get out of a Ferrari contract

@@JackV-tw8bwI’m thinking this. It’s obvious Mercedes are getting it together now. Not only that but the rumours are the new engine for 26 is supposed to be getting some good numbers on the dyno.

@@JackV-tw8bw Pretty sure he's already signed with Ferrari. So he has to go. This is what impatience looks like. He'll be much further down the grid next year. I don't see McLaren or Merc giving up these positions for the rest of the year. And not next year. Ferrari will be fighting for 4th next year. Be Funny if Russell, or Hammy's replacement wins the Championship next year. Remember, he did this to himself instead of trusting his team.

@@luckymchl2074 it would be funny if max replaced him and then won the championship in his car

​@@smith2781mercedes didn't want to give him more then a year +1 that's why he moved. They clearly don't want him anymore.

I have a feeling they have read this comment & have taken it into serious consideration after that hungary GP lols

May not have been a comfortable win, the other cars certainly had some pace still. Though they certainly made it next to impossible for either of their drivers to win with the tactical blunders, where had they got it right you'd have expected at least a double podium and probably both of the top steps...

​@foldionepapyrus3441 Oscar was only 12s behind lewis and he lost over 20s by staying 1 more lap in the rain, so yes that wouldve been a really comfortable win for Oscar

@@JaegerLeo And if the team hadn't screwed up his teammate's race as well he probably would have won over Oscar, being already in the lead. That a McLaren should have won and probably with a 1-2 is fairly clear, though even then not certain as the others were fast enough to be a threat. Overtaking on track in the mixed conditions is both tricky and risky, but likely required, at least for Oscar. He would end up behind a Merc in that first double stack if McLaren had done things properly - he could then have been stuck behind for quite some time.

@@foldionepapyrus3441 dude mclaren was the better car that day, they always bottle it

@@kenzabel5394 I'd agree they were better that race, but not the in a league of their own better than RB and Merc have been many times in recent years. When you are only the better car across the race by the small margin with the others having good cars and good drivers anything can happen even if you run your race perfectly. Clearly McLaren did not run their race perfectly, but with such fine margin on the other cars even if they had all it takes is something tiny and unpredictable, the tiny delay to avoid the backmarker and gravel from rejoining the track at the wrong moment - anything that loses you a little time that you can't predict and suddenly you might well be behind on the track without enough extra car underneath you to do anything but push the other driver all the way to the flag (and that would be impressive with how bad the Tyres are).

Tractor racing's pretty WoW

Mercedes should start a commercial tractors division with Mike Elliot in charge. He has a strong resume for it.

@@curiousguy9884 OUCH dude, super ouch!

Hamilton has driven 3 tractors in his career. MP4-24, W13 and W14

@@Hamilton8timeChampion MP4-24 with 5 podiums, inc 2 wins. Harsh to call W13 a tractor, when all but one car on the grid was a bouncy mess for most of the season. 13 and 14 only looked terrible because of RB/MV domination.

I'm hoping it's just growing pains and it won't just be a perpetual issue like with Ferrari. It's been a long time since McLaren have consistently fought for wins

I'm not sure they're worse than Ferrari... Charles went on inters on a dry track 😂😂😂

@@m73m95 thats a gamble, perez did it as well but didnt paid off but mclaren throw away win by strategy error for both cars if you go analyze it

Piastri was faster than Hamilton but the team is incompetent and handed Lewis the win.

No they don't

I couldn’t agree more. Lando‘s willingness to accept responsibility brought me to the realization why there are some other drivers that I just don’t like. Those that blame others. If you follow IndyCar, Colton Herta is another good driver that takes responsibility.

Yes next thing for him is keeping a lead for longer than lap 1

Lando is a cry baby lmfao If his daddy didn't buy his seat he wouldn't be in f1

@@Ibetyouhavepronouns shit bait

@@Ibetyouhavepronouns Are you confusing Lando Norris with Lance Stroll?

Mclaren car is good, but the competition right now is pretty tight. Mclaren's current case is not similar to Mercedes domination where they can make major mistakes or could afford having mediocre pitstops and strategies and still manage to win uncontested. In this season, little mistakes will determine whether one could win a race or not

it really shows just how important the experience the Mercades and RB teams have built up over the past decade really is when you get down to these close fought battles at the front.

Bit like Ferrari in 2022

I think today was the day LN learnt that to win you need more than just a fast car. Whilst he is an exceptional driver, you can tell he’s not experienced being up front. LH and MV proved that today

Well said

Did he decide to go on the soft or McLaren ?

Dayum!

Makes it seem like the win was more luck than work. For McLaren to win they not only need a near perfect weekend but they need others to make mistakes. Norris has great pace but he needs things to line up to capitalize. I'm a RB fan since Vettel's first win so I enjoy watching RB dominate but they are starting to have less and less of an advantage every weekend now. Add Checo into the mix and they are back to being a one driver team.

@@ronmurray7349 I agree. Max and Lewis made the right call because they have been behinds wrong ones too. Lando is slowly building up that experience.

McLaren has the habit of asking Lando to make decisions in crucial times when he's under pressure. They did it in Sochi 2021 and threw the win away and they've done it yesterday. Lando needs to learn to work better with his engineer and team on making these decisions. There is a reason Lewis/Bono and Max/GP are a deadly combination both drivers have a great working relationship with their engineers and vice versa.

@@MojoMachin3 2021 I think was always a coin toss, in Sochi there wasn't an obvious choice and you just had to hope for the best. RB and Max are always aggressive and knew they had more to gain than lose, Mercedes are risk averse and just copied Verstappen for the title fight. But now Norris pitted too late twice, and went onto the wrong tire to ruin whilst Piastri got completely screwed to cost them a 1-2 finish.

Hulk is and has been my favourite driver since he came into F1 back in 2010. Always came across as just a really cool chill dude (beside the Magnussen incident a while back lol) so glad he's doing well again. And fingers crossed that his move to Audi will be worthwhile for him.

pun intended?

@@dukcy7450 i was low key quite proud of myself

Hulk deserves a better car. I wish Red Bull had signed him instead of Perez

Crap Jeremy rather than good Jeremy.

Abso-freaking-lutely!! Huge contingent of U.S. Hamilton fans where definitely thrilled to see LH pull out the victory, especially at the British GP. No better place for Lewis to get the monkey off his back than in front of his hometown fans, where it all began.

Well said.

I booked tickets to see the musical when it came to London. Imagine my disappointment when it wasn't about him at all but was just a bunch of colonials in wigs

@@AndreiTupolevbro😂😂😂😂 I had to think bout your comment a second before bursting into laughter 😆

Well its more the car is the goat hamilton won becouse he got the best car simple

I think McLaren were just a bit surprised by their success this season. What many people don't realise is that although the car is very good this year, the team has to grow back into this new situation after all the years of drought.

I agree that ferrari is a mistkae TODAY, but in 1 or 2 years time its very possible ferrari overtake merc especially when the new regs come in. Ferrari seem to be now where merc was last year, but as merc and mclaren have proven that can quickly change.

Ferrari is still a decent car.

The move to Ferrari is for 2026, where regulation will change. Hamilton Adrian Newey Fred Bono Ferrari will be different combo

I think the Ferrari move isn’t too bad because even Lewis knows that he is now towards the end of his career with only a couple years left, so in fairness for him it wouldn’t be that bad to move to Ferrari to drive before you retire, but for someone who wants to fight, then it would be a bad idea

Ferrari is the perfect move. Next season will be intriguing

Sorry but how can you not be a Hamilton fan? I despise Red Bull but I’m a max fan…he’s an exceptional talent. Lewis is so inspirational

@@johnnychimpo7539 You can for many reasons, saying that you cannot dislike Lewis is just so wrong.

Same with me and I'm a neutral fan but I thought throughout the race that there will be another new winner

@@jkliao6486 give me one reason

@@johnnychimpo7539 As a Chinese F1 fan, he has posted separatist oriented comment about my country on the internet that I'm not happy with. Sure you can say "China bad bad" all day long but that is a sufficient enough reason for me to never be a fan of him.

Biggest reason, russle for DNF'ed 😂😂

@@JohnWiku Hamilton was ahead of Russel anyways lmao.

@@JohnWiku Hamilton was 10 seconds ahead of Russell before that you nonce

@@gauravmalltarlok5354yeah i was already cringing after the race thinking of all the people that are gonna say the only reason Lewis won is because George dnf‘ed. He was already ahead of him before that & was clearly showing that he was far superior in the mixed track conditions the drivers were faced with. Sure, McLaren had some blunders in there but I just as much dislike the notion that this race was mclarens to lose & Lewis wouldn’t have had the slightest shot at beating them had the strategy been executed properly. He was so much faster in that last stint on the same, one lap older tyres & could’ve definitely caught lando had he mirrored Lewis. If you can’t see that the overall performance of Hamilton was top-tier & he would’ve been fighting for the win even without strategical mistakes on McLarens behalf you‘re just blinded by an all to familiar prejudice regarding Lewis capabilities imho. That Merc was flying yesterday & Lewis execution was flawless bar none. He nearly had not a single mistake & clearly outperformed the Lando & co. - whether that be strategically or on racecraft. Keeping a cool head in really tense situations as these, changing conditions nearly by the minute, is what makes champions & elite drivers & lando, as much as I respect & am rooting for him, just can’t seem to stay calm & make the right decisions.

Agreed, and while I love Lando, he hasn't had enough time at the front to develop that type of racecraft, knowledge, and decision-making that others, like Lewis have. Maybe for running 2nd or 3rd when Max was winning by 43 seconds, but not when it's down the wire. Same goes for the pitwall at McLaren too, they haven't been in this position in over a decade. Lando literally requested softs, they should have reminded him why he shouldn't. They'll get there, it's just both parties need to honestly evaluate their own failings and create a plan so that it gets better.

Key rule: If you have a faster car, pit when your opponents do and let the faster car win you the race. Staggering stops is a strategy if you think the opponent is faster and you are looking for an edge in the pits.

@@jimiverson3085yes but when the track is changing that much u gotta double stack Oscar lost so much time nearly 15 seconds

@@jimiverson3085 And you are right, Mclaren has the fast cars, but the drivers are below Verstappen and Hamilton, by far....

No, as per most of the radio messages in this race and all the chat for decades ... the driver is hugely significant when it comes to when to switch tyres in a dry-wet, wet-dry race situation. There needs to be communication in both directions. Lando just doesn't seem good in those situations (though I can only only think of a couple of situations), he needs to work on it, but I won't hold my breathe, he doesn't seem like a smart driver, like an Alonso.

And Lewis just managed his tyres so much better, look at landos finish position in comparison with a car easier on its tyres

'sustainable' in this case is another word for slow, Hamilton may have managed the tyre a bit better than Lando but both were going backwards compared to the rest rather quickly. It was definitively the wrong tyre when you have a fresh a Medium available, though when you don't as Hamilton didn't...

Thank you professor Einstein.

@@harry4454but Lando didn’t have as big a gap to Max, and also was stuck between Lewis and Max and had to drive around in dirty air while Lewis had clean air. So it was impossible to manage the tyres as much as Lewis did.

What? Norris was on softs too. Hamilton is fantastic in both tire management and wet driving, and he always has been. Give the man some credit for once.

made the same mistake in Russia 2021 - Piastri is miles ahead in temperament and decision making. Give Oscar a few more years and he will be beating Norris regularly

Yeah, Lewis was very unemotional this race... Haha, I'm just kidding, I know what you mean and I agree with you.

Russia 2021 was team's mistake. "What do you think about inters?" instead of "Box for inters" isn't his fault. Silverstone and used soft instead of medium was Lando's choice.

@@hipotenuza5663lando screamed no when told to box at sochi. he lost that race. mclaren lost this race for oscar, but lando lost it for himself (again).

He reminds me so much of Max when Max was breaking through and nipping at the heels of Merc and Lewis.

Perez is undoubtedly a better driver than Yuki Tsunoda.

Even Stroll and Zhao would do better than Perez in that red bull right now. Maybe even Sargeant

@@jadynhasstupid2275😂

To be fair, RedBull kind of destroyed his race this time by putting him on inters when the track was dry. Still he's very slow

They will use perez as a guinea pig for the rest of the season to help Max win the championship. The money they will lose for losing the constructors championship is already paid off by carlos Slim, Checo sponsor. If they fire him, they will need to pay him a lot of money and lose the championship anyway.

That's the setup he chose in order to qualify better.👀

I don't think so, he's only 26. I do agree next year it's probably going to be McLaren's year given their trajectory, but if Merc nails the 2026 engine and aero package I can see Max going to Mercedes and getting more championships after 2025. Toto has been quite clear he wants Max. All the important people on the grid seem to think Max alone is worth 0.3 seconds per lap compared to other drivers, regardless of the car. So anyone would offer him a contract for a killer combo of great car/great driver. I think there's more to come from him if he makes the right team choices (edit: which Vettel did not do).

Funnily enough it’s reminding of 2019 when first part of the season Mercedes was dominant but the rest of the season it was quite even between Mercedes Ferrari and Red bull Here RB was dominant initially but since then McLaren Ferrari and now Mercedes have had cars to compete for today

I’m looking forward for Hungary, Singapore, and Brazil.

The 2021 season was full of unfair decisions that went both to lewis and max on different occasions. However, Abu Dhabi was one of the worst of those unfair decisions and it left a very sour taste in hamiltons mouth along with his fans being the last race of the season and title decider. Its good to see him win again just as justification that yes, the decision in dhabi was unfair, but it could've gone either way. Lewis could've won 2021 just as easily as max did and today was proof of that. Hopefully he gets more opportunities to prove his skill in the future.

@@TheGamingAddict2000 agreed... It was a stunning systemic act of corporate corruption. No doubt Liberty Media (owner of F1), were behind the decision to fix the race to stop LH by any means necessary.

He needs to get out of his head he has a chance at the title. He was racing much better up until Canada

he does have a great pace overall and currently the overall better car. but he's clearly not a phenomenon like Pia and Max, so it's not like he's entitled to win anything.

@@cian69 I don't know why they always give him choices instead of just telling him the strategy

His race engineer needs to stop asking him questions about dry tyre choice. The mediums were clearly the best yet his race engineer implied softs is the only way to beat lewis.

@@Alcatraz760 Exactly, ask the driver the right question - do want the mediums or hards, both of which are a far better race tyre for the length of stint coming up, neither of which would be a bad choice - at least if you can get the hard into the window it will last that stint length flat out, where the medium probably needs some management. Not asking in effect if he wants to win follow the Merc onto the worst strategy.

Also, he had DRS when both he and Lewis were weaving through the back markers while even though Lewis was within a second before the ending of the detection zone, he still didn't get it. That either means he was too dialed in to notice that he had DRS, it was malfunctioning or something fishy occurred; I have no idea which.

But was he outside 1 sec in the previous drs detection zone?

Records are there to be broken

feel sorry for George - Not for Lando and his team shambles

Just a tip. Fastest lap (in a race) doesn’t necessarily mean that the car is in great shape. There’s always context and in this case it was Carlos on a set of brand new Soft tyres any half decent car can get fastest lap as long as they have a new set of softs and the big boys don’t bother to go for it using the same method of Brand new soft tyres. Race pace is king. 👊🏾

I'm not sure how Ferrari will be in 2026 but people doubting the wisdom of Hamiltons team switch should remember where Mercedes were when he signed for them in 2012. Everyone was saying he'd never win with them and that he was only going for the money.

I agree they need to improve the tactical skills, as it really feels like they don't have any... However if they keep making leaps while the others make stumbling steps towards a faster car they could end up winning every race with the sort of margin of the Merc or RB dominance periods no matter how they screw up tactically as there is no doubting both of their drivers have enough skill to deserve an F1 seat...

Leclrec is trash. He keeps showing he's a one time pony

Now and next year it's 4 team that very competitive = Mercedes, Mclaren, RedBull & Ferrari

​@@antoniohagopian213he's severely overrated. He's really good but he's on sainz level not on verstappens level. The only guy that can beat max over a season is lewis. Lando drops the win too often, Oscar still isn't a finished product, Russell is really good but he's never been in that position. If I had to rank the driver max would be first with lewis slightly below him and everybody else is in a league of their own. They aren't far off and may be as fast as anybody on a day but to beat max you have to be perfect for the whole season. Yes lewis win was impressive but what max did yesterday shows you why he's the benchmark

It’s his 7th year he’s got a lot of experience

@@harry4454 actually he’s been in F1 for 6 years and 5 for Ferrari. Leclerc is a talented driver. Compared to Lewis he’s not even in the same league, but let’s remember that he didn’t start stringing wins and championships till 2014. That was 7 years after he started and had a great car under him.

@@Uranswer-yu5kp I guess 2007 and 2008 didn’t happen. Also 2010, guess the McLaren wasn’t an absolute machine just unreliable in 2012

@@harry4454 take it as you may. 🤷‍♂️