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Data suggests he is, and maybe it's not an easy instinct to erase.
Are this current gen of cars unresponsive to Hamilton's previous all conquering driving style?
Young Alex Brundle, son of Martin & F2,F3 and sportscar driver, believes Lewis has a flaw in his driving style and has set out his reasons below:-
Alex Brundle, has poured through Hamilton’s data to spot a driving trait which is ill-suited to his SF-25.
“He has talked about moving the car towards him. And he’s talked about moving himself towards the car,” Brundle told the F1 Nation podcast.
“I look at the data from Lewis every weekend. The trait is the same.
“He goes into high-speed corners and hits a little bit more brake pressure than Charles."
“You can draw a line directly up the wheel-speed graph, to the steering trace, and the brake aligns perfectly with a tiny bit of movement.
“It just upsets the Ferrari everywhere.
“Leclerc is just Mr. Measured on the brakes.
“We know that Lewis had a problem with the same thing, I saw the data, at Mercedes.
“Can he coach himself out of a lifetime’s worth of driving technique to move towards the car? We will find out."
McLaren’s Andrea Stella commented at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix that this generation of cars are so fast that a driver does not have time to think, they must essentially drive their fastest laps on instinct.
That would make Hamilton’s learning process even trickier.
“It’s a killer trait to have in a car, especially if you're behind,” Brundle said.
“Because you look for the time, and it punishes you again. It gets worse and worse.”
Extracts from a longer piece courtesy James Dielhenn, Crash.net, 27th April.
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