Lights Out: Hamilton tipped to become best ever

Lights Out: Hamilton tipped to become best driver ever

Martin Macdonald

Wednesday 21 March 2018 09:00

Heikki Kovalainen reckons Lewis Hamilton has what it takes to surpass Michael Schumacher to become the greatest ever Formula 1 driver, while Max Verstappen has confessed to having lost sleep last year due to Red Bull's troubles. It's Lights Out for Wednesday morning!

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Lewis Hamilton is perhaps the best driver of his generation. But can he be the best ever? His former team-mate Kovalainen thinks so.

The current world champion's Mercedes contract runs out at the end of 2018, with Ferrari reportedly taking an interest in his services. Worryingly for the Silver Arrows, he has claimed that his favourite colour is... red.

Max Verstappen is believed to be a future title winner, but is coming off the least successful season of his career in 2017 in which he suffered badly with reliability issues. He even says he lost sleep due to overthinking things.

Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate, Daniel Ricciardo, provided another issue with the halo device. It takes him one second longer to get out of the car than usual, which could prove vital following an accident.

The Red Bull duo continue to make it seem as if the team is a fun place to be. This time, they play word association with Australia as the topic. Not sure that's entirely fair on one of them...

F1 could be up against a rival series sooner rather than later, according to Toto Wolff. The Mercedes boss and Sergio Marchionne of Ferrari are not happy with the direction Liberty Media are taking the sport.

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