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GPblog’s lead columnist, Ben Hunt says about the debate: “It’s hard. I mean, you can go by the statistics, which is the easy and probably only way to do it, really, looking at the one with the most wins. But who’s to say that those pioneers, when Formula 1 first started, aren’t the greatest of all time, because of the way that they’re risking their lives in the in the flying machines and with rudimentary brakes and no safety devices. It’s too impossible to compare eras, I think that’s the hardest thing for Formula 1.
“The car is such an important element and these cars are obviously totally different to what we had in the past, totally different to what we had last year. So it’s really hard to decide based on talent. The only way you can do it is looking at the wins. And that for me, Hamilton is probably the greatest of all time based on the fact that he’s won more races than anyone else. And that’s fact.”
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He continues: “Who’s to say that there’s a driver on the grid that we’ve just not been watching or experiencing? Perhaps if you put Pierre Gasly, for instance, in Mercedes, maybe he would be blitzing the season and won everything you just don’t know. The only thing you do know is this, the wins, the statistics, and that’s that has Hamilton now on his own at the moment.”