In this file photo taken November 15, 2020 Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton gives an interview after winning the Turkish Formula One Grand Prix at the Intercity Istanbul Park circuit in Istanbul. — AFP picLONDON, March 22 — Lewis Hamilton begins his bid for an unprecedented eighth drivers’ world championship this week facing a cluster of challenges to his crown, as Formula One launches its cost-cutting era with a record 23-race global calendar.
After reeling off seven consecutive constructors’ championships — and seven ‘doubles’ of team and driver titles — Hamilton’s ‘black arrows’ are under serious threat and both he and teammate Valtteri Bottas know it. The prospect of a long-awaited wheel-to-wheel ‘battle royal’ between the sport’s most outstanding drivers, notwithstanding Fernando Alonso’s return, will be welcomed by F1 fans worldwide as an antidote to the predictability of last year when Hamilton won 11 and team-mate Bottas two of the 17 races.
Verstappen was delighted by his team’s powerful signal of intent in recruiting Perez and then shining in testing, but he said nothing could indicate their competitiveness until after qualifying at the opening race, the first to run with ‘financial regulations’ embedded in the rule book.
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