Apart from one podium, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has had a pretty forgettable season so far. This has ignited the “car vs driver” debate and Hamilton’s former teammate and current Alpine driver Fernando Alonso has weighed in as quoted by Racing News 365 Link to poll: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxxjuCW3viNY3RCo7RC_p-WzSGnsAqeOH8 0:00 - Lewis Used To Win Because He Had “Fastest Car” – Alonso 1:04 - Fast Feed I'm your host Dillon Shelley and first up on Formula World: Lewis Used To Win Because He Had “Fastest Car” – Alonso Alonso began by explaining his thoughts on the car vs driver debate “It’s Formula 1. It has been like this always” “When [Ayrton] Senna won the championships and the races, he had the fastest car. When I won the championship, I had the fastest car. Michael [Schumacher] had the fastest car” He then spoke specifically about Lewis “Lewis broke all the records and pole positions because he had the fastest car” “Today, Lewis is driving super well and [yet] he’s P13. It’s Formula 1” He signed off by responding to whether racing has improved for him “There is no race at the moment. It is like fighting with Lewis last year, or Verstappen. They start last and they finished on the podium still, so there is not much to fight” Fast Feed For Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz “the difficult thing is that [the poor results] come one after the other” [Soy Motor] “It hurts more, but hopefully we have put this behind us in the first part of the season” Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes' Trackside Engineering Director has explained that “realistically, [they] have to look at this step by step” [Official Statement] “However, we are seeing encouraging signs and hope to bring updates soon” “Perhaps even in Miami, that will further solve this problem” Retired F1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi stated that “if you compare Mercedes to McLaren, they both have the same engine” [Vegas Insider] “But McLaren is running much faster than Mercedes. That means it’s not the engine, but also the chassis” Alfa Romeo team principal Fred Vasseur pointed out that “when you are designing a racing car the weight is always the target number one” [Motorsport] “Nobody can be surprised with the weight at the last minute” “I think that some teams played a game with the FIA expecting that the FIA at the last minute would increase the minimum weight [even more]” AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly suggested that they “need to go away and work out how to get back to a stronger qualifying performance for the next race” [F1] Red Bull team principal Christian Horner revealed that “tyres are a big issue” “In Imola we managed to bring them into the best working window, in Australia we had a hard time with that” “Leclerc had more tyre problems in Italy than we did and that tipped the scales in our favor” Can you only win championships in Formula 1 if you have the best car?