Edd Straw stated recently that this latest world drivers’ championship for Lewis Hamilton, long since predicted, would be “the greatest of his four titles”. And, now that it’s official, it almost certainly is. Unlike in 2014 and 2015 Hamilton has not had unequivocally the best car. Which leaves 2008, where you could debate the relative merits of his McLaren and rival Ferrari. But whatever Lewis made heavy weather of that one. This one is different. It’s hard to get into the mind-set of the Mercedes not being the standard bearer; perhaps in its ideal circumstances it still is. But this year the W08 was, as Merc team boss Toto Wolff famously put it, a...
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