It’s Christmas, buy yourselves Geraint Thomas’s book, even better get some one to
buy it for you, The World of Cycling According To G. A humorous insight to Geraint’s
cycling career to date
Lewis; a most worthy champion backed by a fantastic team.
Of course Lewis does not like loosing, no champion does, but he has won Sports Personality
of the Year before.
Enjoy Christmas, Happy Healthy New Year
Keith
Hamilton has wall to wall cases crammed with trophies.
Well deserved.
Thomas got this one.
Well deserved.
Was Vettel even mentioned in this thread ??
We could start hacking into a lot of sports people but no one else was mentioned , I gave my personal opinion on L Hamilton which I made quite clear im not asking anyone else to agree am I .
Nope, no change to that.
Well - it doesn’t bother me, but my son is still able to drive, and I rely on him for the odd favour.
Curious though Saz - can you clarify the ‘no change’ post?
The government is not eliminating the duty free allowance. There will still be a green channel and a red channel. The blue channel will likely disappear. What will change is that for 27 other countries, the current limitless allowance will be replaced by a limited allowance, in line with other countries. I’m not sure Monaco would be considered an EU country; for customs purposes, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and the Canary Islands are treated as outside the EU, and therefore duty free allowances apply.
It will still be possible to buy duty free tobacco.
Frankly , I couldn’t care less where Hamilton lives , or how much tax he pays, or how nice he is to his gran . He’s a Grand Prix driver, and one of the best . Of course he has often, but not always , had the best car - which puts him in the same position as Senna , Schumacher , Fangio, Rindt , Andretti and Mansell (and many others ). Just like them , he has sometimes benefitted from a compliant team mate as well. I am not sure I would class Hamilton - yet - as highly as Clark, Stewart , Prost ,Alberto Ascari , Nuvolari or Moss . Nor has anybody rivalled Lauda for brains and courage .
I saw Hamilton win his first car race and it was obvious he was special , even in a minor Formula Renault race. There’d be something deeply wrong if I (a sixty something middle class white retired lawyer) liked Lewis ’ tattoos or admired his gnomic tweets and dress sense. We have nothing in common.
It is only his achievements as a racing driver by which he should be judged - judge the art , not the artist …
Well said
I agree
Me too
Geraint Thomas OBE
But nothing for 5 times world champion Lewis Hamilton (unless I’ve missed it)
David Berglas, Magician and Mentalist, upon receiving a MBE.
Bang goes his bookings.
Well done
Shocking isn’t it ? He should have been knighted for his achievement - most successful British F1 driver EVER !
I don’t doubt Hamilton’s ability, as shown above I hope . But although the stats show him as what the Americans would call winningest Brit , the numbers are the beginning of the story , not the end of it . Otherwise the gifted but perenially unlucky Chris Amon(who never won a world champiohsip GP ) was a worse driver than Pastor Maldanado , Jean Pierre Beltoise or Vittorio Brambilla(all of whom won a single GP ). Or Giancarlo Baghetti , who statistically had the highest hit rate of all until his fourth F1 race . He won the first 3 , the last of which was his first championship scoring GP.
We now have up to three times as many Grands Prix a season as in the 50s and 60s , cars that don’t break , drivers that don’t get hurt or killed very often so Lewis cannot be compared to , say , Moss or Hawthorn, G Hill or Clark in any meaningful way, despite various idiot statisticians trying to do so. The last such survey I saw put Jochen Rindt behind David Coulthard and Rene Arnoux - which says it all really …