To be fair he was never in a really bad car, and this does in part show the huge effect machinery has on results in F1. Still, the consistency to almost never put in a stinker or have a poor qualy and fail to make it up on the Sunday is really worth highlighting.
![[@F1] Out of 345 race starts, Lewis Hamilton has finished outside of the top 10 only nine times.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0f369de0-43b2-4d47-8391-7190cbd5feb4.jpeg){kind=link}
To be fair he was never in a really bad car, and this does in part show the huge effect machinery has on results in F1. Still, the consistency to almost never put in a stinker or have a poor qualy and fail to make it up on the Sunday is really worth highlighting.