Hamilton: Silverstone 'best F1 weekend ever'.

That was awesome, after all the media did to keep you down you still rose to the occassion. Keep your head up and race. To lap all Ferraris and for people to say you were not a better brit to win, ask where DC and JB finished. I think people shoukd keep their mouths shut but talk sence.

I've just come back from the race and it was brilliant - the support Lewis recieved was awesome and it was very, very richly deserved. So much to say and not enough time...

Hamilton clearly has wet weather prowess. I'm not ultimately convinced he'd have won in the dry, but in those conditions he was insanely quick and being able to compete in the rain so quickly and consistently shows immense skill. As far as I could tell, only the top 3 had a race without a spin, off or delay. Two of these drivers are amongst the most exprienced drivers ever - and they were still well over a minute behind Hamilton! True his car maybe helps, but even that kind of advantage isn't down to car alone...

I hope this kind of drive does bring a bit of humility to Crash forums. The guy is pretty chastised on here by some and yet having gone through the comments so far, the response seems really positive (even from those you wouldn't expect it from, which is great!). You can fault a faultless drive after all I suppose. Now he just has to keep it up, which I'm sure he can.

Well done Lewis!
I think he is the faster driver of all today!
if he manages to control his passion for success and wins to a logical level
he will be unbeatable!I couldn't believe how hard he pushed Kovalainen at the
first laps!Very dangerous attack at these conditions but shows the stuff he is
made of!He is born to be the first!Ofcourse if he hit Kovi today everybody would bash him!Now he is Hero!The difference between success & failure is very thin!but i think that every champion should have that attitude although inevitably sometimes he will pay
a price for that choice!only experience can reduce that price!

well done lewis - massa, gtfo, he s not worth a ferrari

way to shut up all the doubters, that was an incredible drive, one of the greats.

about massa, you know that guy deserves a top drive i think, i dont care what anyone says, when it all works for him im not sure anyone can get close. he doesnt hide from admitting it when het gets it wrong either, i dont know, he's probably too humble for ferrari.

if someone doesnt deserve a drive in F1 its jenson button in my opinion - thats not based on todays performance i might add.

anyway who cares, we've got a great second half of the season coming thats for sure!

I think hamilton is one of the most reckless drivers in F1, he was given the race by everyone, ferrari were such idiots, having had ross brawn with them for so long they could not decide on the right tyres, surely kimi needed new tyres, he was faster than lewis and did a perfect drive, I think ferrari too wanted lewis to win, idiots, even the great Ross Brawn got it wrong for Honda, rubens who is more experienced than lewis in wet weather could have won too, a costly mistake by honda too, I still am not convinced about lewis, he is too cocky and too aggresive and does not care about risking other lives, he still has a very long way to go, you could never be like the legends schumi & senna.

In defense of us hammy-haters: it's not that we doubt his talent or ability, it's his personal character we dont like. We never said the guy could'nt drive.

@ Nicole Radha

Quote "even the great Ross Brawn got it wrong for Honda"

WTF? I don't think so. He was the only one to get it right, Handa had a fuelling rig problem which has sweet FA to do with Ross Brawn. But he made the best call to go Extreme Wets - they put Jenson on them too, but he still couldn't stay on the track!

A LUCKY WIN GIFTED BY THE STUPIDITY OF FERRARI AND NOT CHANGING KIMI'S TYRES!!!!

It really makes u wonder though how experienced teams like ferrari and renault can f up so badly on tyre choice. morons.
massa was dangerous yesterday. other people spun once or twice, but this guy ... must be the only brazilian who cant drive in the wet

what are nicole and yamaha r1 talking about???
one claims that "Ferrari wanted lewis to win" and the other claims that he was "gifted" the win.

oh ok so when LH was lapping 5 secs quicker per lap than everyone else when all were on the same tyres this was luck was it??? for the 'hard of intellect' please stop the bigotry and have some humility, he drove a superb race today, in his home GP, in conditions where many more experienced drivers failed. does anyone honestly believe Ferrari wanted a McL driver to win??

anyone trying to compare LH to senna or schumi are crazy. he's only in his 2nd season, he shows great potential but at the moment that's all it is... potential.

Lexington

But I'd like to disagree with your view on whether you can compare Lewis to any of the greats.

First up, I'll make it clear that I don't think LH is up to their standards yet, as an example last weekend he had a very poor Firday and Saturday - and Senna wouldn't have at his best.

My argument is that longevity doesn't make greatness. I think MS was at his peak in the late 90's - the but he won more championships post 2000. If he had retired in 2000 say, would that have made him any less of a driver? I don't think so. Equally I think it is easy to argue that Gilles V was one of, if not the, fastest of all time, but he never won a WDC.

Jonov posted
In defense of us hammy-haters: it's not that we doubt his talent or ability, it's his personal character we dont like. We never said the guy could'nt drive.

You make me laugh - 'I don't like his perosnal character' ******s. How many times have you had a meeting or discussion with him then Jonov? I'm pretty sure he wouldn't rate your personal character that highly either - that's if he were to give a damn about your sorry little life - *****r

Well said Knotty!

Reading Nicole's comments,it does make you wonder about someone who presumably watched the race but can have interpreted things so differently than the rest of us!We are all different I suppose!

Didn't Kimi had a few off-track excursions himself, even on the good tyres?? He wouldn't have beaten Lewis in a straight fight on a very wet circuit - even on a par, their lap times weren't comparable and Lewis lapped Kimi!! That wasn't all down to the earlier tyre error, because Alonso made the same mistake and he was even ahead of him for much of the race. Kimi is a great driver, but he's not that composed in wet conditions. Same is said for Massa.

Would have, could have, who cares?
Great win by LH, horrible race for Ferrari, both from team & drivers. There were probably only three drivers out there today that drove really good, and incidentally, those three all ended up on the podium.

Oh really, Knotty? And how many times did any of you Alonso-haters personally meet or talk with Fernando? What about all the abuse you guys heaped on him with no evidence to back it up? How right is that?

Jonov - Did I ever say that I was an Alonso-hater? Sorry but I can't remember that. In fact the truth is that I don't 'hate' anyone, much less any of the drivers in the F1 series. Hate is an extremely strong word as I find myself having to tell my 12 year old all to often. Dislike someone by all means or support others but what gets my goat is people sitting at PC's slagging off anyone who has clearly done better for themselves than the author of the post, be that LH, KR, FA etc etc

Let's face it, when any of the drivers make a comment (in response to media questions) - all those that don't support that driver jump on the bandwagon and start slagging him off - it's just plain boring!!