Comment: Lewis Hamilton – icon on and off the track

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Six times formula 1 world champion – a title Lewis Hamilton is still missing for Schumacher’s record. Its radiance is enough, but already in a higher and quite different spheres than from “Schumi,” says Andreas Sten-Ziemons.

Six world Championships in formula 1, has managed to create in front of Lewis Hamilton, only one: Michael Schumacher with seven driver’s titles on the record. Still! Because even in the coming season, the awarding of the world Cup is only about Hamilton. And as long as in the case of the Scuderia Ferrari similar to the often strange tactical decisions to be made this year and the “Red” because of the unclear hierarchy-the question of the own success continue to stand in the way, Hamilton is the hottest contenders for the title.

Best driver, best team

The Briton didn’t get his sixth world Cup victory, but by the struggling competition as a gift, but it Can be with its outstanding drivers, and the ability to make virtually no error on the track by yourself. Add to this a Team of all Mercedes sports boss Toto Wolff and strategist James Vowles, the eighth, with its clever decisions in some races the difference. Out of the question also is, that the clear constellation in the case of the silver arrows – Hamilton as the number one, Valtteri Bottas as the number-two – is of advantage.

Andreas Sten-Ziemons

While Sebastian Vettel seems to have been his last Chance at a title with Ferrari this year, missed out on team – mate Charles Leclerc will shake up next season even stronger at the Base of the four-times world champion Hamilton on the best way to crack the last of the best brands that are still held by Michael Schumacher. The seventh world title is no longer tangible, 83 Grand Prix Victories, a lot of missing Hamilton to Schumacher’s record (91).

Of beam power, the 34-year-old Hamilton has outperformed the German record-champion of the world already for a long time. Schumacher wanted to be loved to be perceived only as a racer. Glitz and Glamour off the track he needed. The spotlight has searched the seven-time world champion never. More important is its privacy, which protects the environment now, in the years following his serious head injury, an impressive and respectable manner was to him.

“My life should have a meaning”

Hamilton is a different type than Schumacher. He uses social media, has millions of Followers, he did not look with snapshots from the fashion, film premieres and short holidays to exotic destinations has. He is also happy to current issues of politics, tweets to #BlackLivesMatter. or criticized US President, Trump in Interviews because of his misogyny.

Recently, Hamilton spoke about a topic that for him also, and increasingly, to be important seems. “It makes me sad when I think about where this world is heading. The world is a broken place,” he wrote on his Instagram Account, the 13.2 million people follow. Hamilton denounced the meat and dairy industry, cruelty to animals, oceans and climate, the dying Forest, and the failure in the protection of species. Apparently, it doesn’t bother him at all, that he stands at the top of a sport that is anything but environmentally friendly. “I want my life has a meaning,” said Hamilton, and meant certainly not only its importance as a racer.

Other world stars, for example, the actor Leonardo Di Caprio, George Clooney and Angelina Jolie, have long since demonstrated how to make in addition to the actual Profession as a “lawyer” for climate, environment or human rights traces behind and for change provides. Lewis Hamilton can play in this League locker.