14th May 2007

A rookie Formula 1 world champion?

posted in F1, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Race, championship, grand prix, podium |

First thing’s first, what a thrilling GP weekend, Qualy was like the haydays of the one hour session and Prost and Senna taking it all the way to the last thousanth of a second. The race didn’t have a dull moment, wheel banging, overtaking, mechanical and electrical failures, a crash or 2, a Fire on the pitlane, a blowout on the main straight, I think any doubt about the excitement levels in formula 1 have been well and truly done away with.

So, is it to early to speculate? Lewis Hamilton could be the 2007 world champion, personally I’m a Masa fan these days but I’ll talk about that another time, Lets just take a look at what Lewis has accomplished in only 4 races in Formula 1.

  1. He has finished every race, always good for a rookie to be able to do that. ;)
  2. He has passed cars on the first lap of every race.
  3. He has finished on the podium at every race so far.
  4. He seems to be consistantly faster than his team mate.
  5. He seems to be consistantly faster than the current World Champion.
  6. He’s the youngest driver ever to lead the world drivers championship.
  7. He’s never lost in Monaco (and that’s where the next race is)

And  I think he’s also the most succesful formula 1 rookie of all time with 4 podiums in his first season and there’s only been 4 races!

The Lewis Hamilton story is an incredible one and it is sure to draw more and more attention to Formula 1 as time goes on, even if he starts making “the rookie” mistakes that everyone is still half expecting. What he has achieved so far is astounding, Lets not forget the current World Champ is the man who beat the most succesful driver in history to 2 world championships and Lewis has made him look just a little silly recently :)

So I’m asking the question does anyone think we could have a rookie world champion at the end of the 2007 season?

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  1. 1 On May 14th, 2007, elly parker said:

    It’s something I’d certainly like to see, throws all the comments about F1 becoming ‘boring’ out of the window.

    Coming into this season I was just praying that there would be someone around who could push Alonso at every race, that’s what was missing for the last while, Schumi was head and shoulders above everyone else and we lost the ’sitting on the edge of my seat’ aspect of F1…

  2. 2 On October 2nd, 2007, Sid said:

    Just wondering about your F1 stuff. You ought to include F1-live there

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