Why do Lewis Hamilton fans (with some exceptions) feel the need to big up Lewis Hamilton while putting down Jenson Button? The simple fact is that each driver has their own strengths and weaknesses and have the capability to beat each other on any given day. Jenson could have been ahead in points, Monaco and Spa being the two examples of retirements that were not of his making. Over the course of the season they were fairly evenly matched and given different circumstances, points tally could be different!
Jenson's big let down this year was his poor quali performances, if he had qualified better, who knows what would have happened in the race!
I do not agree with this. Nothing is balanced. The weaknesses between each Driver DO NOT Balance out and never will. Some drivers have less weaknesses and more strengths at the same time.
This Year we saw PERFORMANCE , SETUP and INSECURITY weakness from Button. From Hamilton all we saw was a "weakness" of Inexperience.
It's almost dishonest to say they were
evenly matched.
Evenly matched means equal. Hamilton dominated in qualifying
and the races. That in no way can be classified as equal driver performance. The match was not way even. An even match is like Alonso Vs Hamilton. You never knew who was going to beat the other on a given day. On the contrary it wasn't like that for the Mclaren Boys; It was almost universally expected that Hamilton would beat Jenson over all the races.. It almost came true too, with Hamilton only loosing out 2 wet "Lottery" races to his team mate when their
chances were even.
That is what I hate about History... It's so easy for somebody to twist , crop it and repaint it. History is so easy to Photoshop...