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1996 F1 champion Damon Hill says Lewis Hamilton is “able to produce stunning laps when he needs to, I don’t know Fernando’s still got that ability to do that”.
On the F1 Nation podcast, Damon Hill was asked which of the three world champions currently on the grid has se best racecraft – Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso or Max Verstappen?
“I think it’s Lewis,” Hill said.
When podcast host Tom Clarkson disagreed and said he believes it to be Alonso, Hill further explained:
“Lewis probably works with his engineers very effectively, whereas Fernando can probably do it without his engineers.
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“Or he tells the engineers what to do, rather than the other way around, and he manages to fit in a few sort of clever comments in the process as well, while he’s got other things to do.
“I take your point about Fernando and racecraft, but I’m just going to go back to Lewis again.
“I think the thing with Lewis is that in a race, he’s able to produce stunning laps when he needs to, I don’t know Fernando’s still got that ability to do that.
“So if you say to Lewis ‘we’ve got a target and this is it’, he manages to pull it out somehow,” he concluded.
