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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison discusses what he will miss about Lewis Hamilton and says he believes Lewis is “the best racing car driver there’s ever been”.
Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes at the end of 2024, after 12 years with the team, so the team’s Technical Director James Allison was asked what he will miss about the Briton.
“The days where he would just produce total magic that would make you go: ‘Oh, my goodness,’ Allison said.
“Putting a car on a road with such precision that just left all the other drivers around him with no option but to sort of surrender to what Lewis was doing on the road…
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“The ability to make a tyre last and last and last, even while telling Bono [his race engineer Peter Bonnington] it wouldn’t…
“The drama that goes along with having him as a team-mate, just the delivery of brilliant, brilliant performance…
“I have said before I think he’s the best racing car driver there’s ever been, and I still believe it,” he concluded.
