They were very different from each other but I think the Lewis now is very different to back then. “Lewis was straightforward, super-quick and could drive anything you put him in, really.
He had the speed but he also understood strategy and he knew what he had to do with the engineers to get them on his side. He knew exactly what he needed to do to win. “He was a lot less experienced than the likes of Fernando Alonso at the time. “Lewis was a World Champion when we were team-mates and also quite young,” Button told Sky F1.
Having experienced life as team-mate of both Hamilton, who was recently named in Forbes’ top 10 highest-paid athletes in the world, and two-time World Champion Fernando Alonso, the question inevitably came as to how the two stacked up against each other on opposites sides of the garage. Jenson Button has revealed his way of working at McLaren that “mentally hurt” Lewis Hamilton at certain points in their time as team-mates.īutton joined Hamilton at McLaren in 2010, with the pair being the two most recent World Champions at the time, creating what was dubbed as an all-British ‘super team’.
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