PittsburghTiger

It was pretty dark, modified for the hottest parts of The Cold War.

I would, yes.

Agreed. I didn’t want to come across as too wonky/nerdy/preachy with a history lesson that most people don’t want. The father of one of my Pitt roomies saw Clark race in person. Was his favorite driver, in all forms, from that moment on.

I think Senna is the one who kind of gets the short end of the stick in a lot of the conversations, due to recency bias. His rivalry with Prost while they were at McLaren was EPIC. It was crazy to see both teammates dominate the way they did. Especially now when we see a team’s #1 driver be so far ahead of his teammate. In the end the death of Senna, at 34-years old, was a huge blow to what could have been in Formula 1, and it also helped bring about the ascension of Schumacher and his run.

Just a funny funny guy.

I'll also add that in 1996, Schumacher's first season at Ferrari he won three races. In the previous five seasons Ferrari had won two races. Hamilton is undoubtedly a great driver. I'm not saying he isn't. I'm just saying I put Schumacher above him in my rankings. I have Fangio as my number 1 because he just won. I also have Senna and Clark in my top-five along with Schumacher and Hamilton. There are a lot of arguments that may be made for other drivers, Max, Vettel, Lauda, Prost, Stewart, Moss, Ascari, and the list can go on. It's just fun conversation.

Well, Schumacher won 72 while at Ferrari, so........

13 more victories for Hamilton in 37 more races. I love diving into stats. It's what I do when I work the Pitt games and the if I work Steelers games. A few numbers I found interesting: Schumacher had 71 retirements to Hamilton's 32, and that again is in 37 more races for Hamilton. In Schumacher's seven title years he had 15 DNFs and in Hamilton's seven title years he had six, incredibly just one in his run of four titles after Nico won his title. In Schumacher's first three seasons at Ferrari he had 13 DNfs in 48 races and in his final three seasons after the three year retirement, with Mercedes, he had 15 DNFs in 48 races as he was (as my German cousins insist 😉) building Mercedes into a team from which that Hamilton would benefit. Schumacher won 40 races from pole, Hamilton has won 61 from pole. Schumacher had 22 Hat Tricks (pole, fastest lap & win) to Hamilton's 19. Hamilton has the edge, 6:5, in Grand Slams (pole, fastest lap, winner, every lap led). Jimmy Clark did that eight times. Max has done it five times. Stewart, Mansell, Senna & Vettel each have four. Most wins in a season; Schumacher 13 of 18 races in 2004 to Hamilton's four times winning 11 races in 16, 21, 21 & 19 races. The 16 races was 2020 so it is pretty safe to say Hamilton would have won a couple to a few more if it was a full season. In 2004 Schumacher had seven consecutive wins. That was following a retirement in the season's fifth race (Monaco) which are after he won the season's first four races. I think he was third, or fourth, when an accident happened and the leaders went to pit and he stayed out and then was hit from behind by Juan Pablo Montoya with about 30 laps, or so, to go. Hamilton's top streak is five straight wins in 2014 followed by a 2nd and then a win to end the season.

Amazing how all those egos worked so well together, especially looking now with how so many others can’t seem to check their egos at the garage doors.

That’s why I have always given Schumacher the edge over Hamilton in the “greatest ever” conversations. Schumacher winning championships with three different engines, and two different teams is what I look at as the differentiation. Schumacher also taking so many years to rebuild a failed Ferrari into a juggernaut decides it for me. Their winning percentages are just about the same. If Lewis does not win anymore races the rest of this season, and he certainly could win again, his winning percentage will be 29.2% and Schumacher’s winning percentage is 29.5. Currently, Lewis is at 30.1%. It makes for fun conversation.

I missed it, for what reason? Stroll holding him up?

Going to be an interesting second half to the season with all of these cars now up front.

I think, if I were Lando, I’d just ride this one out and wait until the post-race debrief. The team has been very good to him, and also Piastri, so I’d not risk upsetting the apple cart for the rest of the season.

It is very interesting to see the reemergence of “Young Max” now that the cars are much closer in performance. I’m generally one to give him the benefit of the doubt. It also gives credibility to the argument about how it’s so much more the cars than the driver. This McLaren radio talk these last 10 laps is fascinating.

McLaren should shut off their talk about tactics. The replay of Max and Hamilton was a bit scary. Looks like Max was at fault.

Hamilton and Max get together in the turn.

Pit Stop race. Hamilton going with the undercut on lap 17.

I don’t think that it was cool that Norris practically drove Piastri into the wall on the start. The ruling on Max seems to make sense in giving back the spot to Norris.

Lando with some throttle issue on the grid. This looks like it could be an interesting race.

Ouch! That hurt me. Thankfully that guy didn’t feel a thing.

I’d rather it be a video of Mrs. Horner, that eventually gets leaked.

McLaren front row. Nice. Max in 3rd, Sainz 4th Hamilton and then LeClerc in 5th & sixth. Well done McLaren and Norris. Piastri is really good, too.

Red Flag. Yuki with a bit of an ugly crash. just over two minutes to go. Should be enough time for another go.