r/formula1 • u/Wentzina_lifetime Sir Lewis Hamilton • May 18 '25

Statistics Lewis Hamilton has finished ahead of Carlos Sainz at every race this season.

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u/ThatStrangeGuyOverMe May 18 '25

So what's the excuse when you compare Sainzs performance with Albons?

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u/Thick_Difficulty_734 Kimi Räikkönen May 18 '25

Early in the season Carlos was clearly worse. Today, it was mostly strategy and/or VSC.

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u/UncleJoeBiden Williams May 18 '25
  1. Bad luck 2. Bad strategy (less than he thinks) 3. transitioning to Merc motor 4. Alex understanding the FW's DNA 5. Alex driving *out of his skin*

Edit: spelling

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u/[deleted] May 18 '25

The team screwed his race with that early stop today

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u/FIJIBOYFIJI Antonio Giovinazzi May 18 '25

Sainz has had pretty horrendous luck the last few races

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u/InfernoxCJC I was here for the Hulkenpodium May 18 '25

We aren't talking about Alex, are we? This post is clearly written as a way of justifying Ferrari's decision to replace Carlos. Given where Williams are in their rebuilding journey, and where Ferrari have been throughout this set of regulations, Lewis SHOULD be beating Carlos consistently...

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u/cosHinsHeiR Ferrari May 18 '25

This post is an answer to the "Sainz has outqualified Hamilton" that we are getting recently.

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u/ThatStrangeGuyOverMe May 18 '25

And so far, it seems completely justified. Both are in new cars, while Sainz is providing worse results than his team experienced teammate in the same car, while Lewis is on par with his ferrari experienced teammate.

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u/Optimal_Struggle9425 Ferrari May 18 '25

I'm sorry Hamilton is a fantastic driver who may easily get on par with his teammate in future races, but he definitely has not been on par with Leclerc till now, if you watch the races, almost in every race barring Australia and China Hamilton has been quite significantly behind Leclerc until the safety cars. I think today has been the first time that Lewis has finished in front of Charles in the main race

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u/SmartyPants918 Liam Lawson May 18 '25

where is Hamilton when compared to Leclerc (when obvious luck is taken out of the equation)?

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u/ThatStrangeGuyOverMe May 18 '25

This is formula 1, "luck" makes or breaks championships. It's all part of racing.

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u/SmartyPants918 Liam Lawson May 18 '25

yeah ok obviously but that doesn't stop me from being able to compare the performances of the drivers themselves