Ex-Mercedes Team Lead reveals what set F1 World Champions, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton apart.
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Michael schumacher is teh red baron
This is the issue with Lewis on the ground effects cars, he can't push the boundaries of the car under braking, and that's his strength.
Keep in mind when Schumi came back to F1 with Merc, there was a ban on on-track testing. That hurt him more than anything.
my only issue with michael is that he made moves to prevent ferrari from hiring kimi thus proving that michael knew on some level he could be slightly slower
lewis would never do something like that and has never done so
Michael's advantage is he built his own race cars as a junior driver, he was a good engineer/mechanic on top of his driving.
Yes,give us these real tech interviews 😊
Hope Ferrari today watch and listen and learn.
Sounds more like some English drivel we hear in the football world, "oh Andrea Pirlo wasn't as naturally gifted as our players", "oh Rio Ferdinand was better than Paolo Maldini" type of drivel😂😂
Based on this years performance Charles LeClerc is a legend, then.
Don't be shit. Sage words.
V interesting, the comment on hamilton amd braking… the ferrari seems a bit weird with its brakes
Advert breaks midway through an 8min video is very disappointing.
I am still of the belief that those who have worked with Lewis never did enough to defend him From the ravenous and parasetic media. It's disgusting the treatment he receives from both British and foreign media especially that hateful mob at the mail express and Planet F1.
Sounds exactly like Max
Interesting video until we get an ad for supplements. I preferred the old pre-roll from a stranger who I could tune out
Grande volves e ai due buoni piloti dai toto dagli una mercedes completa con la scritta williams cosi rivedremo questa vecchia gloriosa e mitica squadra in cima lo merita sarebbe fantastica e tutta bianca una williams doc
Michaels driving was brilliant whereas Lewis’s driving was genius!
James Vowles really needs a beard
Would be interesting to know how much time Michael spent at the factory and with the team vs Lewis.
During their times at Mercedes, wouldn't surprise me if Michael spent way more time during his 3 years at the factory then Lewis ever did during his Mercedes stint.
It's the same at Ferrari, Lewis is never at the factory and neither is Charles.
Schumi Lived at the factory, slept on the floor in Jean Todts office for years.
Schumi even knew the cleaners names and knew their families.
Does Lewis even know there are cleaners at the factory?
James is going to be great for Williams
This man has to be studied bringing back Williams from the dead fr
He was working with Hamilton at the time of the interview, right?😂
I learned one thing trough time: The current dominator is always the hottest shit ever. Look at how quickly Lewis is fading away while now Max gets all the "No one else could blabla" And one day Max will face the same fate. It's a business and therefore the next race will always top everything that came before.
True GOAT
0:00 Don't care who you are , that statement is PURE POLITICS BS . Anyone who has watched both Schumacher and Hamilton perform for years knows that Hamilton skill set on the track isn't remotely close to that of Schumacher !
Only Senna was probably more skill full that Schumacher. From the modern era , Alonso and Verstappen come close … Hamilton doesn't sit on Alonso/Verstappen table let alone for Schumacher's one !
One is a true goat candidate and the other a wannabe
If Lewis is so great, why isn't he performing in a lesser car?
He really was a Kaiser.
Id safely say Lewis doesn't know anybody's name in the factory never mind their birthdays. He spends all his time picking clown trousers and worrying about which celebs to hang out with on the grid.
Max came as a child regulary by Michael in the pits and called him uncle Schumi as his father Jos was once a colleague. Both families often met for friendship. Max has learned a lot of him.
If y want World Champion Listen to hamilton
Hamilton is just egocentric and full of resentment.
OMG James is so wrong here. Peak Schumacher would crush Peak Hamilton.
It is who he is. A real person with integrity and work ethics that was absolutely leaps ahead of all others.
The hate for Lewis in the comments is too much from pigskins, yet, not surprising. I'm definitely sure he faces much much hate from them in the workplace.
Hamilton aborting all laps but one and still dominating is hilarious
One take-away from this interview, which I think highlights the key difference between Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton, is when Vowles said that Hamilton would look at his engineers to fix any problems with a slow car because it couldn't be Hamilton's fault that the car was slow. That statement right there highlights Lewis' arrogance that it was the designers/engineers faults the car was slow and they needed to fix it because the fault couldn't be Lewis'. This is stark contrast to the collaborative effort Schumacher had with all of his team, whether it be engineers, mechanics, etc. where he worked tirelessly and was able to communicate effectively to get the best out of every team member. Lewis has lost to his teammates in 3 out of the last 4 seasons. Did he lose his ability to drive fast, or is part of his recent downfall due to him never having to really work to lift the team up to being a success?
Sounds like Hamilton and Ferrari are a match made in hell.
both men in my book are incredible on track but great humans too love them both passionately my favourite drivers ever and Nicoroseberg to awhile but he grew on me and I love him too
Vowles only worked with Schumacher at the end of his career, but hes comparing that version of Schumacher to prime Hamilton?
Really great stuff from James
comparing a old Schumacher to a prime Hamilton? What are we doing here
James, great guy and professional …
Hamilton is the best to ever exist. Period.
Schumacher was just more than Hamilton, as a driver and a person. Hamilton probably agrees
Senna, Hamilton, Hakkinen, and maybe Alonso perhaps could get a touch more speed out of the car.. but as Martin Brundle once said, These guys would stick it on pole, but Michael would probably win the race.
If you think Lewis > Schumacher, you were not born and watching racing during the Schumacher era. Lewis is a top 5 driver, but he’s far from the goat.
And then came Leclerc and made Hamilton look like a turtle.
I can tell you the difference: One is the GOAT, the other one is a British average driver that had a super car during a few seasons and now that he doesn’t have it, is a nobody in the paddock.
The real difference between Hamilton and Schumacher is Hamilton never tried to kill anyone to stop them beating him.
His opinion and experience with Michael is retirement Schumi not prime Schumi…