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So I was reading this on a well known news site earlier and felt the need to post it. It relates to the (admittedly rather pointless) "who is the best F1 driver ever" debates. This is what Lewis Hamilton thinks about that topic :

Hamilton himself said the debate was "not important" to him. But he did make a thinly veiled reference to some remarks made by three-time champion Sir Jackie Stewart, who in the run-up to the race had said he would never consider Hamilton in the same bracket as greats of the past such as Juan Manuel Fangio and Jim Clark.

"I don't think you should knock anybody for the way they do things," Hamilton said. "I get knocked by many people, particularly older drivers. I don't know why.

"Maybe one day they will get over it, but I have so much respect for the past legends, even those who continue to talk negatively about me all the time. I still hold them in high regard. It was a different time in history. It was incredibly tough for them.

"And in 20 years' time when I am looking back, I can promise you this, I will not be talking down any young driver who is coming through and succeeding. Because a responsibility as an older driver is to shine the light as bright possible and encourage those.

"There will be someone else chasing the record I eventually set, and it is the wrong approach to be hoping he doesn't break it. You should be encouraging them to live to their full potential and if that means them getting to that record, that's amazing."


That is the correct attitude. Those words alone make Lewis Hamilton a bigger and better man than Jackie Stewart in my eyes (JYS should be ashamed of his recent mealy mouthed remarks).