LEWIS HAMILTON - ANOTHER RACE ANOTHER WIN








We compete to meet our needs, in the case of these birds, the need for food, but it should be how we cooperate to meet the need and not the competition for food which defines us.






Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes Team, for them having won the Hungary Grand Prix yesterday, which has resulted in Lewis notching up his precedent 5th win on that circuit.


The race was an exciting one, with one of the notable achievements being Lewis having been able to capitalised on a good start to overtake his team mate, Nico Rosberg, and secure the lead in the race, which he was able to maintain until the end; notwithstanding there having been times when it seemed that he would have had to fight harder with Nico, in order to maintain it.

I imagine that you could say, where fate and good fortune had intervened crucially for Lewis, was at the beginning of the race, when Nico was constrained with a not as good start and found himself being squeezed between Lewis and Daniel Riccardo, and losing out to Hamilton. It was fortunate that there was no collision.

Might it have been, I wondered, that Lewis saw him taking the lead of the race in the first few hundred metres, as the price Nico had to pay for what he, Lewis, seems to see as Nico's failure to ease up off the pedal for longer, during Q3 on Saturday, in response to the Yellow Flags? Lewis' comments during the podium conference seems to suggest that, notwithstanding Nico's assertion that he had not done anything wrong, as might be indicated by the fact that his Pole position has been allowed to stand, he still feels that his team mate did not eased up sufficiently.  This is now something which Lewis, having made his point, could chose not to comment on further.


For me, another pleasing event during the proceedings was Lewis and Nico displaying noticeable evidence of good sportsmanship after the race, by vigorously shaking each other hands. This, in my view, took nothing away from their competitiveness, and enhanced their professionalism and humanity. 

Being able to contain their competition to the Grand Prix, and being able maintain an amicable relationship as two humans, sends out a powerful message to their fans and others who perceive them as role models, that it is our ability to cooperate and get on with our fellow humans, which most resonates and endures, and not our desire to 'win and dominate'; especially if it is at the cost of conflict.

For that display of basic and positive human behaviour, I thank you, Nico and Lewis; do make it become a regular and normal feature of your interaction with each other. Life is too too short to indulge in unnecessary unpleasantness and awkwardness.


And what can I say about Max Verstappen's indomitable spirit in being determined to keep all and sundry, including Iceman Kemi  Raikkonen behind him, at nearly all cost?  Well, Max, you are clearly going to go far as a Formula One driver, however, do be mindful not to push your pursuers  so far that they become so frustrated as to emulate you in throwing all caution to the wind, as the wind sometimes has a way of taking us to places where we do not want to go to.

All told, yesterday's race was exciting and proved to have been probably the most accident-free one for sometime now.

And now, the drivers and their teams look forward to the German Grand Prix, hoping that fate will be kind or kinder to each of them; we shall see.











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