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Originally Posted by 73henny
How was it a straight fight with Vettel at the back?
Hamilton is a great driver but he's lucky to be leading the championship this season. Germany a perfect example. And he benefits from having a pretend equal driver as a team mate. Merc fooling no-one other than perhaps Bottas. He's beyond lucky to be in that car as he never gets close to Hamilton if Hamilton is anything like on his game. Pity Rosberg not still in the car as he'd not have slowed down Kimi like Bottas did. Had Ferrari used team orders then Vettel would almost certainly have won today. But as I said above they don't have a Bottas in their 2nd car.
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I agree Hamilton's fortunate to have a tame team-mate at the moment but the reality is he's also the best driver on the grid when his head's in the right place and he's on it (as he was yesterday).
As a wheel to wheel racer he's in a different league from Vettel and he also makes far fewer silly mistakes; as others have said, it was Vettel's own fault he ended-up at the back yesterday just as it was his own fault he threw away an easy victory in Germany. You can't afford errors like that when you're competing against a driver of Hamilton's calibre and, barring mechanical failures, he'll have the title sewn-up with a couple of races to go IMO.