lewis hamilton

[rich.]

well done that man... i have no interest in f1 but im glad a brit won

[kevin]

Im glad he won too, great for the UK,
Loved the 2014 F1 season and even started to love the sound of the new engine.

Nice to see Williams team coming strong again

Kev

[jpsh120]

Yes I think he is a deserving champion. Even though I'm not that keen on him as a person he is a superb driver.

I just hope that next season will see a bit more competition across teams instead of having one dominant team that we have seen for the past few seasons.

[rich.]

i don't know anything about him apart from he is a brit..

[JPB]

Yes I think he is a deserving champion. ...//... he is a superb driver.

I just hope that next season will see a bit more competition across teams instead of having one dominant team that we have seen for the past few seasons.

So which is it?

[jpsh120]

Both!

Lewis is a top driver but most of the drivers would have been able to win races in the Mercedes!

[Fatbloke]

I'm really pleased that another Brit has won the title and I think Hamilton has the potential to be a truly great driver. However he will need to get his petulance under control to be so.

His 1st season and 1st title season he was superp for a rookie but then when things don't go his way he chucks all his teddies. He should have learned more from Button on deportment of a racing driver.

I don't like the image of him as a person that comes acress on the coverage but as I say, one of the top drivers but a long way to go before he is up there with schumaker, Vetel, Jackie Stewart etc

[JPB]

Both!

Lewis is a top driver but most of the drivers would have been able to win races in the Mercedes!

Sorry, but I don't understand that POV and never did. A few short years ago some of us were saying equally incredible things about the Ferrari under Schumacher and yet time and again, Massa proved them wrong by demonstrating that he could in fact be beaten. What a shock that wasn't!
The Red Bull was dominant during the last season of the big engines but still Lewis took wins for his previous employer, this in spite of the so-called dominance of Seb's ride. Now we're only just out of the season and already the accusations of dominance are coming along. Strikes me they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
I can't imagine that Valentino Rossi would be able to get off his bike, into Hamilton's Mercedes and equal the F1 champion's race winning times as he did in the Ferrari during 2010, regardless of what some folk say, the car is only as good as the person driving it, even in cases where the regular competitor let his closest rival try out that car. It's the same story at the other end of the scale; I was taking home so much cheap cava in the late '90s that one of the Lothians VW guys questioned whether my SAC seat that season (Rebel 750 GUS265L) was compliant with the rules, they assumed that I had all manner of upgrades to it including FWD , engine tweaks and decent brakes but their second placed man took it out and I beat him by driving his T2 camper on his own side of the course while he was still struggling with the wee Reliant's gearbox and how to avoid stalling its engine with its ridiculously light flywheel and a short action, coil spring clutch that was either 'on' or 'off' and offered no leeway for using the lever as a place to hang one's handbag. At that stage, the only RWD VWs I'd driven had been years ago and then on the public highways where it made no difference.
The point is; yes, Hamilton had a good car but he is fly enough to learn his car quickly and that's the difference between the top flight drivers and those who genuinely are winning purely because their ride has some technical advantage, which inevitably comes out in the wash as we saw with the Red Bulls' sudden disappearing act last weekend.

[tractorman]

I've always thought Hamilton was/is a spoilt child and,according to teletext, he has said that tension between him and Rosberg was worse than the season with Alonso at McLaren. Perhaps he needs to stop and think what the common factor was! That said, he's a good driver - perhaps with the potential to mature into a great one. I suspect that he is still a "lad" - and might be a decent bloke when he's out of the spotlight, but we only have press reports to go by (unless some of us actually know him!)

If Mercedes didn't have a good car, I doubt that a Rookie would be as close to a former world champion as Rosberg was. It seems coincidental that Rosberg's car developed a fault that dropped him so far back in the last race (but that's conspiracy theory stuff!). The Mercedes engine was dominant during the season - hence Vettel et al couldn't get on the podium with the monotonous regularity of the last four years or so. Of course, Ferrari are wanting extra development time on their engines - if Ferrari don't do well, expect changes to the regulations (more conspiracy theory). I do wonder though - do manufacturers have two standards for their engines? I remember that, when Ferrari were dominant, other cars with Ferrari engines were a heck of a lot slower!

So, we had a good pair of drivers in cars that dominated the rest due to their superior engines as much as their better chassis/body design. Yes, I think it takes both to win the title - though would have likes it to be closer at the end.

[rich.]

but that's conspiracy theory stuff (more conspiracy theory). .

ok was it lewis hamilton on the grassy knoll