James Vowles says Lewis Hamilton’s talent surpasses Schumacher’s

James Vowles, the brag of Williams, is not conscionable an mean manager. He is simply a antheral who has worked successful Formula 1 for years, since the clip of British American Racing successful 2001, and done the periods of Honda, Brawn and Mercedes. 

It was astatine Mercedes that helium worked with the 2 biggest legends of F1 — Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher — arsenic main strategist. That's wherefore his sentiment astir who is amended betwixt the 2 seven-time satellite champions has peculiar weight.

In a impermanent quality connected the High Performance podcast, Vowles made an absorbing comparison. He said that Michael was not the astir skilled operator successful the car, but that rubric was held by Lewis. 

"I already said that it was Lewis. But Schumacher knew however to get each millisecond retired of himself and the team," helium pointed out.

Hamilton's earthy talent 

Vowles points retired that Hamilton possesses an tremendous magnitude of earthy talent, which makes him highly successful. 

"When helium goes retired for the archetypal practice, he's similar an octopus down the wheel. He changes each mounting and explores," helium describes.

An illustration from Brazil further explains his ability: 

“The simulation said to support seventh cogwheel uphill. Nico [Rosberg] did that aft 2 laps, but Lewis said helium didn’t consciousness right, helium switched to sixth and recovered a tenth. That’s Lewis — helium uses information arsenic a basis, but helium has a feeling that trumps everything.”

Hamilton has ever pushed the limits: 

“He would often spell implicit the braking bounds successful the archetypal country and ruin the lap. The biggest vexation was that retired of 20 laps helium would lone bash 1 bully one. But that has changed.”

Vowles goes connected to explicate however Hamilton’s attack has changed implicit the years: 

“From 2013 to present he’s finished each lap, he’s been a perfectionist. Braking is his spot — maximising everything, knowing the limits of the car and gathering from there.”

However, helium adds that this benignant has its drawbacks: 

“He would often alteration the settings truthful rapidly that we would get lost. The information changes, the way changes, the grip changes… truthful we commencement over. So sometimes helium falls back, and past helium abruptly improves — helium goes backmost to the known settings.”

Ultimately, Vowles concludes: 

“Lewis tin research and judge that possibly the full league volition beryllium with the incorrect settings, but helium learns from it. That’s wholly him.”