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Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen, and Lewis Hamilton – 4 drivers that ruled the grid in their prime. While the first two have retired, the latter pair are still fighting it out. Not exactly fighting it out as much as Verstappen is just taking victory after victory. When Hamilton was in that period, he sure enjoyed it a lot. But now that the torch has been passed, the Briton doesn’t look very happy with it.
Before the Austrian GP, Hamilton had suggested to the FIA that Red Bull shouldn’t be allowed to work on next year’s car before a certain date. Different stakeholders from the media and rival teams thought that he has got to be joking. And naturally, that suggestion went nowhere. So, he’s decided to go another way with his feelings – the emotional way.

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Formula 1 2023: British GP SILVERSTONE CIRCUIT, UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 09: Sir Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG during the post-race press conference, PK, Pressekonferenz during the British GP at Silverstone Circuit on Sunday July 09, 2023 in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Photo by LAT Images Images EDITORIAL USE ONLY GP2310_153639JBP_9645
On BBC’s Chequered Flag podcast, Hamilton said, as quoted by f1journaal.be, “There have always been periods of dominance in this sport. You can’t say how long it will take. Whether we can make the car a lot better and compete with them next year, whether Ferrari can do that, whether it will be us, Ferrari, or Red Bull. That’s why I said the other day that even though you have a dominant period, your best years are the ones where you were seriously competing, where you had a very close fight with Red Bull or Ferrari.”
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He elaborated, saying, “At times the gap was wider and you don’t get the greatest satisfaction from that. There’s nothing you can do about that. We just would have done our job better and that’s the situation Max is in now.”
It’s interesting to see how the tables have turned against Hamilton. Instead of battling for wins, he has to just see Verstappen secure consecutive wins. So, now all he wants to do is engage in some really competitive racing. The Wheel-to-Wheel kind.
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Lewis Hamilton Wants to Fulfill Childhood Dream of Competitive Wheel-To-Wheel Racing
Max Verstappen’s dominance is not going very well with the 7-time champion. And he believes that any kind of dominance is not good for the sport. It does sound ironic coming from Hamilton, but that is what he feels. And all he wants to do is go back to the days of Karting. Kart racing that involved heated wheel-to-wheel battles.

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“That’s my dream because that’s when I grew up racing karts, it was wheel-to-wheel close battling,” said Hamilton, as quoted by Mirror. “I don’t dream of having a dominant period ever again, in my for myself, like winning multiple championships in a row, but the hope is that you would be in battle at least.”
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When Hamilton says he wants good competition, he’s not alone. Everybody except the Orange Army wishes for the same. But for now, it is what it is. All circuits are playgrounds for Max Verstappen.
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