Indeed, Schumi was undoubtedly an amazing talent but it'll always be soured by his bad behaviour and insistence on getting a car and strategy advantage over his teammates.
I've said it before, and I'll doubtless say it again: the reality is that each generation of sports people are better than the last. One of the things that made Schumi peerless was that he was the first to really push fitness as a key performance factor. Now that's just normal for F1 drivers. Drivers today are better prepared, have come through better training programmes, get better physical and mental support, and more time in simulators. In something like athletics you can see this improvement in falling numbers: the qualification time for the Olympic 100m in 2016 was faster than the World Record in the 1950s. F1 obscures it with the changing technical rules but it's still there. Fangio was amazing in his day but he didn't race at all until he was 25 and started F1 at an age drivers retire at these days. He wouldn't stand a chance against drivers like Max who have been groomed to race from an early age.
Hamilton is the GOAT.
Id agree. I don't know so much about history. And I'm not really a Hamilton fan.
But he always Makes something out of a race. He very very rarely has a bad weekend.
Unlike Alonso he made good team change choices and never really threw a paddy. (I love Alonso in the Renault says)
The sheer hate Hamilton gets shows how good he is. And how people have to jump on the 'luck' bandwagon to justify why he isn't amazing.
You can't be lucky everytime. That's skill.
He sometimes goes through a lag period and gets a bit down but seems to always come back.
I always quite like his on track and pitlane attitude and interviews.
Not such a fan of his social media stuff.
I guess the one niggle I have is getting into that Mercedes. And what a Verstappen would do against him. Many of us would love that. I wouldn't care if merc were 3 laps ahead of the field if that battle was available.
Without the merc if someone like verstappen was Hamiltons seat and Hamilton in the rbr.. Would Hamilton be GOAT? It would be a lot harder to argue