Lewis Hamilton Can Build Upon 2014 Championship Win to Dominate Formula 1

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Published: November 23, 2014

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The King is dead, long live the King.

After a four-year period which had seen Sebastian Vettel conquer all before him, the throne, the No. 1 car and all the glory that comes with it has been inherited by Lewis Hamilton, who secured his second world championship with victory in Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

In the days prior to the race at the Yas Marina circuit, the British driver had walked around the paddock with a target on his back.



He was a wanted man, with the pre-race focus primarily on how Hamilton—the leader of the drivers' standings by 17 points, lest we forget—could prevent Nico Rosberg, his Mercedes team-mate and title rival, from taking the crown, rather than on how the British driver himself could clinch it.

Requiring only a second-place finish to win the title regardless of what Rosberg did in the double-points race, the general consensus was that Hamilton would be content to sit behind the German and follow him to the chequered flag, guarding his car against reliability problems in the all-or-nothing event.

But Hamilton, an attacking driver by instinct—and despite being comprehensively outperformed by his colleague in qualifying—had other ideas.

"I'll drive the car like I stole it," the 29-year-old vowed to The Guardian's Paul Weaver and—give or take the rather brutish expression—that is exactly what he did. 



The world title was effectively sealed by the first corner when Hamilton, due to a lightning start, immediately took the lead from Rosberg and eliminated any chance of a repeat of their shenanigans at August's Belgian Grand Prix, in which the Mercedes drivers collided in the early stages.

From then on, Hamilton dashed away into the setting sun, with his pace advantage over his team-mate so vast that Rosberg—whose own race was ruined when a mechanical problem led to his car ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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