Why Lewis Hamilton Is the Best British F1 Driver Since Nigel Mansell

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Published: June 13, 2015

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It was at the midpoint of last season's British Grand Prix when Lewis Hamilton solidified his status as the modern-day Nigel Mansell.

Having been beaten by his Mercedes-team-mate, Nico Rosberg, for three consecutive races, Hamilton's season slumped to a new low in qualifying, when he effectively decided against taking pole position, aborting his final effort under the misplaced belief that the track was too damp to improve his lap time.

Starting out of position in sixth, Hamilton, according to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson, vowed to switch to "attack mode" in his efforts to chip away at Rosberg's 29-point lead in the drivers' championship, and he remained true to his word.



He dispatched Nico Hulkenberg and Sebastian Vettel after just four corners, and within two laps of the restart following Kimi Raikkonen's crash on the Wellington Straight, he had made his way up to second place, just five seconds adrift of Rosberg.

It is in that situation—head-to-head, dog-eat-dog, him-versus-me—where the greatest champions of sport usually perform at their best. It was no different at Silverstone on that July afternoon, when Hamilton, shortly after his first pit stop, sent ripples through the timing screens.

On the 26th of 52 laps, Hamilton, on the hard-compound tyres, recorded a lap of one minute, 37.176 seconds, a time that, according to F1 Fanatic's Keith Collantine, was "over two seconds faster" than any driver had produced until that point.



And it remained unbeaten for the rest of the race, with no driver able to come within 0.3 seconds of Hamilton's time, per the same source, despite ever-decreasing fuel loads and some cars fitted with the theoretically faster medium tyres.

Had Rosberg not retired from the lead on Lap 29 with a debilitating gearbox problem, Hamilton's raw pace would have laid the foundations for what could have been the race of 2014 wit...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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