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It was another one of those weekends in Formula 1: Lewis Hamilton did the pole, he went out front, led the whole race and in the end he got a new victory. A Grand Prix like so many others, with the Mercedes driver looking for the seventh race with a 47-point advantage over the World Drivers’ Championship runner-up, Max Verstappen. The Belgian GP has given us exciting races in recent years, but the consistency of the front drivers and the necessary driver management has made everything predictable and, in Verstappen’s own words, “boring”.
So boring that Lewis Hamilton himself seems bored with his own mastery. At the end of the Spa race, in which he claimed his 89th F1 victory, the Briton compared his time to the times of Schumacher, who still holds the record for victories and world titles.
“I cannot speak for all the fans, but having been a fan of Formula 1 during Schumacher’s dominance, I know what it is,” Hamilton told reporters at the end of the Belgian GP. “At that time I was a teenager. I would usually wake up, eat my bacon sandwiches, watch the start, go back to sleep, and wake up again to see the end of the race. If I had been a fan, this Sunday I would have done the same, via only the best moments. I imagine it is not the most exciting race for those who are watching, ”he stressed.
Lewis Hamilton recalled, however, that the drivers are not to blame for this apparent lethargy of the show that everyone wants to see on the track. “The race starts and you know I don’t make many mistakes. And neither do the other drivers, they are all very consistent. It is difficult to overtake at Spa, so it is not the most exciting thing. I hope people realize that this is not the case. “Our fault. We are drivers, dedicated and we give absolutely everything to get to the race and do our best.”
“Whoever makes the decisions in the design of cars, who makes the rules, these are the ones who should be pressured to do a better job,” he told reporters. Hamilton hopes that in 2022, with the introduction of the new rules, which will make the squad more equal, the spectacle and competitiveness will improve: “With the new cars, we will see a different way of racing, more interesting for the fans.” .
Hamilton’s 89th win in Ferrari’s worst race in the last decade
The English Mercedes driver was the fastest to finish the Belgian Grand Prix at the Spa circuit, where the Ferraris of Vettel and Le Clerc finished 13th and 14th, the worst classification for the Italian team (without any of the drivers having dropped out) since 2010
