- Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:37 pm
#3111897
I made a comment to someone on FB yesterday about this, imo, he's become Lewis Hamilton, A-list celeb wannabe, rather than Lewis Hamilton, racing driver, over the last 18months or so and it's starting to show. he has a management company who have no idea how to look after any sportsman, let alone a racing driver, his side of the garage is currently full of random celebrities whereas Button has his Mrs, his Dad and occasionally his Mum there also.
Look at the other drivers. Alonso has close friends/family there, Vettel has his trainer and his father there, Webber has his Dad there, Massa has family there. Now spot the odd one out of the guys in the top 3 teams.....
Combine this sudden lack of guidance with suddenly not being the gold boy in 'his own' team and his confidence will suffer, I think even he believed the hype that he would destroy Button, all of a sudden Button's now settled in, got the team to listen to him and give him a car he likes to drive and the performances are speaking for themselves.
Button is on a roll at the moment and if he finishes the season strongly that will keep going into next season. He's a better driver now than he ever has been, it showed on Sunday when he didn't go mad after the start, he calmed himself down and drove a brilliant race to win.
Hamilton needs to take the time in the off season to regroup his thoughts, re-focus, even smash his Mrs back doors in more often if it gets rid of whatever frustration he seems to have at the moment and come back next year back to his old self. The driver NOT the celebrity.
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