Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull: Fact, Fiction or Inevitable?

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Published: April 6, 2011

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Like most stories as high brow as Lewis Hamilton being linked to another team, they usually carry little or no weight. Everyone's favourite rumour right now is that Hamilton is in talks with a drinks giant regarding a drive in the unstoppable Red Bull Newey machine.

Of course the initial reaction is "abosolutely not, he would never leave Mclaren, that's where he started and that's where he will finish his career."

If we delve a bit deeper and really look at the motivation behind why drivers move around, I think that this proposition may start to hold water.

Formula One is sport fuelled by glitz, glamour and the super rich, but for the real contenders of this parallel world, it is all about one thing: winning.

Lewis Hamilton broke onto the scene in 2007, with the full force and support of Mclaren behind him. He missed out on a world title in his first term by two points and from then on it seemed he and his team could be the making of the next Schumacher/Ferrari super team.

And so it went on. The 2008 campaign brought him his first title, and you wouldn't have been wrong for thinking that the next five seasons were a foregone conclusion.

But things changed rapidly, and in 2009 Ross Brawn and Brawn GP created a machine that was untouchable in its first half dozen races, and this is where the woes of the Lewis/Mclaren happy family started to rear their ugly head. 

At the second race of the '09 season in Melbourne, Hamilton faced one of the toughest situations of his career—the hideously named "Liargate" scandal. The young reining champion not only had a horrible car, but his then-racing director, Dave Ryan, had put him up to one of the most obvious and blatant lies of his life. This left Hamilton not only utterly embarrassed, but questioning whether he would stay in the sport. 

And it looked for a moment like he mi...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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