May 14 'No one understands' why the closest title battle for years is coinciding with Lewis Hamilton's best ever start to a Formula 1 season. That is the view of Alexey Popov, the Russian F1 commentator for Match TV. Recently, former Mercedes chief Paddy Lowe said that in 2014 – when the German team began to utterly dominate the entire ‘power unit' era – Mercedes would carefully manage the pace of the car so as to avoid rule changes and negative opinions. That dominance has now continued until 2021, where six drivers' titles later 36-year-old Hamilton is now head-to-head with Red Bull's Max Verstappen in 2021. 'The statisticians have checked, and the most amazing thing...
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