Is Lewis Hamilton the GOAT (this thread is about Lewis as an F1 driver, not anything else)?

Ain’t gonna work but kudos for the effort :p

To answer the question, yes of course he is. The stats speak for themselves.
 
He’s certainly a polarising figure outside of the car (and I don’t care much for his fashion) but to me you can’t deny the record book.

Highlights for me;

Silverstone 2008… lapping 1-2s faster than anyone else in the wet. Finished a MINUTE ahead of second place.

Bahrain 2014… racing Rosberg who was using forbidden engine modes. A great scrap and one which showed how far ahead Merc were in the turbo hybrid era.

Monaco 2019… Pulled out a staggering 67 laps on the medium tyre and iirc he was on the radio after lap 30 complaining they were “done”. Nursing the tyres and making the strategy work to perfection.

Brazil 2021… coming from the back of the sprint race and outside the top 10 for the actual race to win. Incredible.
 
Is he the GOAT? It's so hard to compare drivers from different eras, but he certainly has most of the stats on his side to support the claim.

Is he one of the GOAT? Undoubtedly. He's up there with other F1 legends like Schumacher, Senna and Fangio.
 
It's next to impossible to compare drivers from different eras, different machinery on different tracks.

But that being said, the GOAT is Tazio Nuvolari.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Is he the GOAT? It's so hard to compare drivers from different eras, but he certainly has most of the stats on his side to support the claim.

Is he one of the GOAT? Undoubtedly. He's up there with other F1 legends like Schumacher, Senna and Fangio.
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Precisely, he's one of the GOATs but to say who is the absolute GOAT will always be down to debate and opinion.
 
I don't think you can really compare different eras of the sport to one another, with that in mind I'd say he's the greatest of the hybrid era, if we now consider 2022 on being a new ground effect era.
 
EVH said:
Silverstone 2008… lapping 1-2s faster than anyone else in the wet. Finished a MINUTE ahead of second place.
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Absolutely this, that car was just another level in the wet, wasnt it canada also the same year or the year later that was equally horrendous and he likewise dominated so hard it was laughable.
 
Its a tough one, as as said above, everything is so different across the ages. With the speed/fitness/technical/development skills, and the general complexity of driving an F1 car today being completely different to hustling a 70s beast with tea tray wings, and everything before and after that. Also, what do we mean by GOAT? Greatest F1 driver, Greatest driver in general, Greatest records holder?

For example, some people can just get an in a car and drive it, others need to hone and find the setup/balance carefully over a weekend to pull the very best out of a car. These skills and their relevance to brilliance vary from season to season, never mind from Era to Era, and across the history of the sport.

However, if pushed - I would say, going by the opinions of other F1 drivers, the variety of the machinery he drove to success, and total dominance he showed in so many of these disciplines so easily, Jim Clark has to be up there. I would be confident that if you put him in a modern F1 car, he would have the skill, spare capacity, "butt feel", technical know-how and work ethic to dominate today.
 
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