Lewis Hamilton claims that Red Bull and Max Verstappen’s enthusiasm is waning when it comes to achieving victories and successes. This would be noticeable in the radio messages after a victory. Lewis Hamilton claims that you can see and hear a decrease in arousal.
Verstappen and Red Bull, they have dominated this season, records have been broken and the books in which statistics are kept were regularly on the table to be adjusted.
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes have also had such a period, but currently things have been going a lot less well in the last two years, not even a victory for Hamilton in the past two seasons. There is still a chance in Abu Dhabi next weekend, but Hamilton and Mercedes are not really taking that into account.
Even though it’s different now, I still prepare the same, said Hamilton. You approach exactly the same every year, you still train and with moments you go a little deeper. I have also learned a lot through the setbacks of the past two years. Not necessarily on the track but especially off it. It is about how I deal with people after setbacks, what I have learned has a positive effect afterwards.
However, Hamilton is absolutely no stranger when it comes to achieving success in Formula 1.
When you have a lot of success, no matter how hard you try, it is sometimes difficult to keep things in perspective. You can hear it in Christian Horner’s voice after yet another victory, he actually doesn’t know what to say to Max anymore than at such a moment.
Your first victory, you feel immortal for a moment. After many victories this excitement disappears and it is no longer the same.
Of course I want to win again, I suspect that the feeling will be even greater because we will be coming out of a difficult period. We’ll go for it and we’ll be there again.