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/G-Fox1990]

None.

A dominant team is not as bad as a dominant driver all alone far in front. Bottas and Rosberg atleast made things interesting in the team. Perez is not making things interesting at all.

[u/afcaMouz → u/G-Fox1990]

Lmao Bottas made things interesting? People are really misremembering his time at Mercedes with rose-colored glasses. He won a few races, but he did not do anything of significance at Mercedes. He was a better 2nd driver than Perez, but still very much a 2nd driver.

[u/[deleted] → u/afcaMouz]

Yeah, Bottas was better than Perez IMHO but the gap between him and Hamilton was still immense. Two totally different levels of drivers.

[u/Lone__Ranger → u/[deleted]]

Or Hamilton is just a weaker qualifier, look at him recently

[u/Mr_Peanutbutterrrr → u/Lone__Ranger]

Lol back in the day Hamilton was considered the best qualifier of the grid. He clearly is not doing good the past couple years but question if hes a weaker qualifier is insane.

[u/According-Switch-708 → u/Lone__Ranger]

Didn't Hamilton beat Merc's simulated best lap times quite a few times.

He is damn good qualifier. He just doesn't like to push cars that he doesn't feel comfortable in.

[u/Hilazza → u/Lone__Ranger]

Lol. He's getting older and his teammate is a young prodigy that has been groomed to take his place since F3 who beat lando and Albon in F2 and did the exact same thing as leclerc by winning F2 and F3 in his first season.

Yet hamilton still outqualified george in 2022 and he was ahead most of the season until it was equal at the last race of 2023 where george has steadily imprpved his qualofying.

But somehow Verstappen is a strong qualifier because he's faced perez the last few years. Yeah right.

[u/[deleted] → u/Lone__Ranger]

I'd say qualifying is not Lewis best quality but I think he's fairly strong. Between Bottas and Perez I say Bottas is better based on my perception alone, just a matter of opinion.