HAMILTON’S INNER CIRCLE
Toto Wol , Mercedes-AMG F1 executive director
‘There is a brutal honesty to Lewis. He is very active in the team, and became more active this year. He has many strengths, but one that’s really impressed me this year is his calmness. When the car wasn’t good enough to win he was very stable and the whole team felt the beneit of that.’
James Allison, MercedesAMG technical director
‘The Lewis we have seen this year has been lawless. He has an incredible turn of speed and a record of making clean but utterly improbable overtakes. He hasn’t slipped, and the results have been metronomic. Of all the drivers I’ve worked with [Schumacher, Alonso…], Lewis would win out.’
Andy Cowell, Mercedes-AMG performance powertrains
‘Lewis seemed a lot more relaxed this year, and one of the things that stood him apart was his insatiable appetite for continual improvement. His sportsmanship, his self-critique, and his open-butfriendly critique of everyone around him as well – they were infectious across the whole team.’