Bernie Ecclestone’s verdict on Lewis Hamilton’s 2024 F1 title hope

Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Schumacher share the record with🧸 seven titles each, and time is running out for the current Mercedes driver to win an eighth.
Hamilton has now been sent well-wi✱shes from somewhat of an unlikely source in Ecclestone, who he has previously been handed criticism f𒈔rom.
"I hope he makes it,” Eccleston🐭e said via about Hamilton’s bid for a reco🦹rd eighth title.
“He would then make history.”
Ecclestone and Hamilton clashed as recently as 🎀last season.
Hamilton questi☂oned why “older voices” were being given a platform to speak, in the wake of Nelson Piquet labelling him a racist word.
“Maybe the older generation are not interested in li🙈stening to what he has to say,” Ecclesto𝓰ne said in response via the .
But the༒ ex-F1 supremo, aged 93, has now lent support to Hamilton’s bid✃ for this year’s championship.
Much of Hamilton’s hope will rely u🍸pon Mercedes delivering him a car which is substanti♈ally more competitive than the iterations of the past two years.
One more title wou🦄ld add to Hamilton’s guaranteed legend, and take him in excess of Schumacher’s🤪 tally.
Schumacher, who won his 📖titles at Benetton and Ferrari, laid the groundwork✨ for Hamilton’s later glory with three seasons driving for Mercedes at the end of his own career.
Ecclestone, who 🍨stepped away from F1 when Liberty Media💎 took over in 2017, remembers the Schumacher era well.
“Max Verstappen has a bit of [Schumacher] in him,”🐽 Ecclestone now says.
"Max isn't as merciless as Michael was.
“Because Michael didn't ev✤en think about making compromises."
Ecclestone labelled Schumacher “a lit🐎tle more ruthless” on🎐 the track.
Schumacher turned 55 years old this week, shortly after the 10-year anniversar🐟y of the skiing acci﷽dent which resulted in life-changing injuries.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Schumacher now rests at home with his family in Switze🐬rland, away from the public’s gaze.

James was a sporꦉts🍌 journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.