Lewis Hamilton’s crazy F1 season: The king’s return?
2022, Five disaster
In horrific nightmares, Lewis Hamilton did not imagine in 2022 with him so miserable. Since 2007, this is the first time the pride of England has not won any of the 22 stages of the Formula 1, including Silverstone Racing School – where he is a record with 8 times on the highest Podium podium.
15 years ago, Hamilton was just a young, potential young racer playing for McLaren. And today, he is the record of F1 with 7 championships and is looking forward to the greatest milestone in history. The ambitious Mercedes team has ended the season in the most disappointing way.
In addition, this is also the first time since 2016, he lost to his teammate at the Mercedes racing team. 6 years ago, Lewis failed at Nico Rosberg – the champion of the tournament. This year, Hamilton only ended the season with 240 points, ranked sixth in the whole tournament, 35 points behind teammate Russell. The worst is that the Hamilton score won only half more than the champion Max Verstappen (454 points) – the driver he only failed in the final round of the 2021 season in Abu Dhabi.
The last F1 race of 2022 took place on November 20 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before the stage, Lewis Hamilton expressed his boredom with the Mercedes W13: “This is the last time I drove this car, and never intended to drive it again. It was absolutely not the car that I requested in my contract.”
Hamilton was so bored with the Mercedes W13 that it is now that the British racer is willing to leave the Mercedes team 1 year earlier than the deadline. Contracting the contracts only after 2023, but Lewis does not want to waste the last years of his career for cars that are not capable of winning.
Will the king return?
It would be a mistake to look in 2022 and dismiss Lewis Hamilton from the list of F1 Championships in 2023. Even Sportmail’s journalist Dan Ripley said that 2023 was the most worthwhile year in the entire glorious career of the British racer.
In professional sports, age is important, and the milestone after the age of 30 is always very special. With Lewis Hamilton, he even turned 38 on January 7. That’s why he left the F1 throne for 2 consecutive years, despite having a series of 4 consecutive years to conquer this position from 2017 to 2020. Now that Hamilton is racing with the will and bravery of a racer that has reached the top of the top.
Above all, the desire to monopolize the No. 1 history has become a great motivation for Lewis Hamilton. He has 7 world championships, on par with the legendary Michael Schumacher. Just again, Hamilton will go into the history of the planet’s fastest racing as the most successful athletes.
Besides, the role of the Mercedes racing team is also extremely important. The great boss of the German racing team, Toto Wolff made a commitment that in 2023, Mercedes provided the best competition conditions for Hamilton to fulfill his wish to conquer the “8th wonder” in his career. The disaster of the Mercedes W13 promises not to recur.
In fact, Lewis Hamilton’s achievement is not too bad. He still has 9 steps on the Podium podium, which honors the winners. It’s just that the Mercedes W13 is too bad for him to overcome the most important bends.
Of course, glory has never been easy. The young riders are constantly breaking out. Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc emerged as the present and future of F1, so is George Russell.
Song Lewis Hamilton has always been Lewis Hamilton, the king of an old dynasty. During the same attack, no one knew this outstanding racer could create any extraordinary. The 2023 season will identify Lewis Hamilton in the continuous flow of time: the greatest F1 driver of all time, or the glorious person standing on the sidelines of Michael Schumacher.
Hamilton is still haunted by Abu Dhabi
Lewis Hamilton had a golden opportunity to win the 8th F1 championship in 2021, when he dominated the upper hand in the last race. However, the incident at the Abu Dhabi racetrack, UAE helped Max Verstappen steal the seemingly in Hamilton’s hands.
After Hamilton’s complaint and the Mercedes racing team failed, the driver became bored. The poor start of 2022 – with the first 8 rounds only once achieved the best achievement of the third, as a typical evidence.
Mercedes shifted to Russell
2022 was the second season of George Russell for the Mercedes team, after moving from Williams Racing. In the 2021 season, this 1998 racer only won 16 points, ranked 15. But in 2022 witnessed the miraculous breakthrough of Russell with 275 points, ranked fourth in the whole tournament.
Even in the race in Brazil, George Russell also directly defeated his seniors with the Lewis Hamilton team. Therefore, the grave believes that the Mercedes team is changing, creating conditions for Russell to develop, instead of continuing to invest in the 38 -year -old racer like Hamilton.
