Ben Stevens looks at – The Class of 2017 – the drivers contesting the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship which gets underway with the Australian Grand Prix weekend at Albert Park in Melbourne, from 24-26 March. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes Having spent his 2015-16 Christmas break desecrating Indian burial grounds, 2016 was a difficult year for Hamilton, as reliability ultimately cost him a third consecutive driver’s championship. Now with frenemy Nico Rosberg gone, Hamilton will look to reassert himself as the dominant force not just at Mercedes, but on the entire grid. Certainly, we’ve seen he’s capable of doing so, but even an all-timer like Hamilton has...
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