The Start of the formula 1 season: Hamilton's new perspective

once again, Lewis Hamilton. On Sunday, the champion of the world at the start of the formula 1 season in Bahrain to 96. Time. So what will have changed since the seventh title of the Englishman a few months ago? The Perspective. The Champion won, because he shot in the fastest car on the course in the Sakhir desert, but because of him, his Challenger, Max Verstappen, together with Red Bull, the Chance offered. The Triumph at the end was not a Demonstration of Superiority, but a brilliant game in the world champion team: Hamilton saved thanks to a clever strategy with a couple of tenths of a second to the target.

it Goes like this more over the next 22 races? The claim of the team leaders of the two teams, Toto Wolff (Mercedes) and Christian Horner (Red Bull). You say that as a good seller of their sport, while questions behind-the-Scenes drilling, such as your engineers intend to run away the competitors as quickly as possible.

duel to the highest level

Wolff and Horner like swarms of race Bending and Breaking from the first to the last round on Sunday. But in the Command of a sovereign Tour to the success of would you rather. Nothing strains the nerves more than two are almost the same fast cars with winning at the wheel. In retrospect, Red Bull has opened with a late first pit stop, Hamilton and his Taktikern to the pit wall on the way to the razor-thin victory. On Sunday, the tracker won the duel on the highest level.

This is the message. The new silver arrow was a round, so when you start space race, drive as fast as the Red Bull. But in the duration of the run, about the Grand Prix distance is the champion of the world team in the past two weeks since the sobering Tests an impressive comeback. Blown away by the first defendant instability of the tail appears. If Mercedes can eliminate in such a short period of time, a great weakness, which run the big race behind the race, is to be expected over the next few months is in Development?

The answer to this core question, the drama of the longest formula 1 season, the story will determine. The only certainty is that Mick Schumacher is strapped in his first season in a hopelessly slow Haas. He and his fans are in for a long breath, to survive the long year of training at the end of the field to be patient.