Lewis Hamilton, revelations from the past

The words of Lewis Hamiltonlewi

“Lewis Hamilton had a natural talent. He has tendencies and characteristics whereby, already in PL1s, he è like an octopus going around the steering wheel. He changes all the settings of the steering wheel and explores them. È this is what makes it amazing“. Words and music to High Performance from Williams team principal James Vowles, who worked at Mercedes for a decade, from 2013 to 2022.

"There’è was a moment in a simulation in Brazil where we were asking for seventh gear going uphill. Nico did exactly what we asked him to do in two laps. Lewis, on the other hand, è went down to sixth and found a tenth. Lewis è an optimizer who uses data as a baseline, but he has a sensitivityè superior to anything else. He has no problem exploring the boundaries".

"At’the beginning he often went off the line in Turn 1. Soì we told him he could do more than that. But he did it becauseé he wanted to find the limit under braking, and that pushed him to widen Turn 1. He was a perfectionist who wanted to maximize everything and explored every boundary, so in a very short time already in PL1 he knew what limits the car" set.