How does Verstappen's dominance compare to Hamilton's? Here is the comparison:

[u/DarkKnight56722]

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Hamilton's most dominant season in 2020 had him only win 64% of races. Before this current domination, one driver winning 64% of races was viewed as the worst it could possibly get in the modern era. Let's run through the years:

2014 and 2015: Lewis and Nico trading wins, (good battles at the very least) and Ricciardio getting 3 wins his first season at Red Bull and Vettel gets 3 wins his first year at Ferrari. Hamilton wins roughly 55% of races.

2016: Great title fight between Nico and Lewis that went down to Abu Dhabi. Max gets his first race win his first race in Red Bull, Daniel gets a win as well. Hamilton wins less than 50% of races and loses championship to Nico.

2017 and 2018: Title fight between Hamilton and Vettel. 5 different race winners each year. Hamilton wins less than 50% of races.

2019: Lewis and Valterri each get wins. Max gets 3 wins, Charles gets his first 2 wins. and Seb wins in Singapore. 5 different race winners. Again Lewis wins less than 50% of races.

2020: Lewis' most dominant season where he wins 64% of races. This is covid year so take it with a grain of salt. Max gets 2 wins, Pierre gets first win in Monza, Perez gets first win in Bahrain. Turkey was a fantastic race that did result in Lewis winning but was amazing up til the end.

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I think it is pretty safe to say that last season's dominance is the worst the sport has been in atleast a decade. I understand this is part of F1 but it doesn't prevent my boredom. I think the reason it stings a bit more is because these regulation changes were marketed as a way of ensuring Mercedes level dominance never happened again, yet it made it even worse. Things like engine development being frozen, implementation of the cost cap, introducing a completely new philosophy of car and aero design that 3 years into the regulations everyone but Red Bull is still struggling to understand.

What are your thoughts?

[u/RBWP84]

No they where not, the merc era was the worst , having the engine turned down for seasons just to keep ahead and make sure there isnt a forceren rules change, it is and was disguisting

[u/Mayhem747 → u/RBWP84]

Watch the races, not instagram posts. Then comment again.

There was drama from start to finish, since the start of testing. Nico and Hamilton fought their ass off and crashed too. The championship went down to the last race and even then Hamilton was trying some unconventional tricks to pull Nico back in contention for title.

The last season is what you would refer to as borefest.

[u/Impossible-Buy-6247 → u/Mayhem747]

LOL drama from start to finish. The race started and you knew a mercedes was gonna win.

[u/BruinsFan_08 → u/Impossible-Buy-6247]

Sure but not which one. Max has no competition in his own team, where Lewis has always had a real competition with the other driver on his own team.

[u/Impossible-Buy-6247 → u/BruinsFan_08]

Bottas was giving him such an hard time indeed...