Well I do think that Hamilton, much as I don’t like him, still drives the car faster than Button which doesn’t look great for Button’s out and out pace. But I guess when you’ve got egos like Hamilton and Alonso at your team it’s useful to have a quiet team-mate next door. Hence Ferrari and Mclaren’s interest in Button.

Still, Hamilton’s his own worst enemy. I reckon he’ll still beat Button this season, but he could do better than he does. I was a massive fan of Raikkonen so Hamilton’s gravel mess up in China was gorgeous for me, but it was indicative of how his career was going to progress. It’s a shame that he sometimes still seems a little petulant and restless when things aren’t necessarily going his way. I remember speaking to William’s Head of Marketing (Pat Garret I think his name was) a few years ago and saying rather childishly that Hamilton “was a liability”. He’s not quite that, but he can be a bit of a nuisance for his team.

Still, to return to the point in hand. I think that Button has shown that he’s not as fast as the likes of Hamilton, Vettel and Alonso by moving to Mclaren. Not quiet career suicide. But I’d not sign him on the back of his displays at Mclaren. If the regulations ever returned to, say 2008, when the only thing that made any difference apart from the drivers’ pace was the erratic weather, then I reckon Button would have been soundly outpaced by his team mate.

Still. Clearly the man can overtake as he seems to have the overtake-of-the-race for most races!

Still. Will he win another WDC? I doubt it.

Ha. You can post back here in a few years when I’m proven wrong again!!!

C

Alonso remains without question a formidable and exceptional racing driver of the top order and so will hamillton be in time surely and of course Raikonnen and Kubica are high class as well.

We can appreciate their driving skills without wearing ‘blinkers’ as you put it.
Facts are sacred but comments are free.

Sure, McLaren has favored Hamilton over Kovalainen in the last season and a half. But that’s because Hamilton beat him very badly by the halfway point last year, became the team’s best bet for the championship, then proceeded to win the championship and seal #1 status in the team.

Hamilton is easily in the top class of drivers with Vettel and Alonso. On raw pace, he might be the quickest. Through the halfway point of last year, he enjoyed status at McLaren that was no better than what Vettel had at Red Bull, who selected the young German at a very early age and have been building their operation around him.

Any comments about McLaren doing a massive “coverup” operation just to make Hamilton look good is nothing more than a black helicopter argument. Particularly, it’s stupid to say that McLaren would sabotage a two-time defending world champion to make Hamilton look good. Why would they do that? They’re a racing team, and if Alonso was clearly better, they would have supported him to maximize their chances of victory. Save your conspiracy theories for the Rothschilds.

I do agree that Vettel is a monster talent, however. But I think Hamilton is just as good, if not better, although I do think the argument that Vettel is better is a valid one.

Oh dont forget Mr equality and integrity Ron Dennis: “We were basically racing Fernando”

Fernando has moved on not because blinkered Hamilton supporters were able to prove any point at all, its because he proved a point that he whoops all corners in the inferior car in 2008. Japanese GP 2008 had no deliberate crashes he earned that win and had his qualifying gone to plan he would have had his fair and square shot at winning Singapore GP 2008 without the team cheating through match fixing tactics.

Compare that with Hamilton? In 2009 he had to wait till Mclaren really developed the car into a real race winner before which he couldn’t achieve anything tangible.

And hilariously some claim “he did well”.