But can only win when he has the best car on the grid.
(to be fair that is the way it is with all the drivers...look at Alonso.)
In Canada the excuse was that Lewis's Merc wasn't on song, he can't win, come French GP Merc get engine upgrades and Lewis gets pole and wins....because car.
Would be ace if Motorsport was about the driver, but it isn't...
If anyone watches BTCC just look at the Subarus with more boost than the rest today...
This is not a personal attack against you, but the rather the suggestion you have made, which is rather popular on every public forum I've come across (and I do acknowledge your disclaimer using Alonso as reference)...but all the same, these arguments that keep surfacing whenever Hamilton wins is really getting old.
Every WDC in the history of F1 drove the best or 2nd best car in the field. Period.
When Fangio, Brabham, Clark, Stewart, Lauda, Prost, Senna, Mansell, Schumacher, Hakkinen, Raikonnen, Vettel, etc etc etc do it, it’s fine...they're hailed as phenomenal drivers, legends even...now here comes Hamilton, works and trains hard all his life, wins 4 WDC's...and all of a sudden it's only the car, or he has everything handed to him, or he's undeserving/entitled/whiny/spoiled, or he’s simply an a**h**e, he’s this and that, all manner of hatred directed at him. Guess what, lots of your favorite drivers are/were proper a**h***s too, it’s just that Lewis is living and thriving in the social media era...so for better or worse, you know more about your driver's personal lives than ever before. Get over it, nobody’s perfect. I personally ignore all F1 drivers until track time comes around; let the driving speak for itself.
Also, Motorsport isn’t only about the drivers, and it never has been as far as I can tell...it’s also about pushing the limits of what these machines can do; the competition between the various manufacturers...F1 and other Motorsports wouldn't have evolved as quickly over the decades if all cars remained stock and manufacturers weren't allowed to design cars with relative freedom.
As for Lewis’ driving ability...we're all sim racers here (and some race IRL): we know the car doesn’t steer itself through those corners, throttle control in a turbo with no TC is still very much relevant, and there's no ABS; add to that the punishing G-forces he and all the other drivers experience for 90+ mins (plus couple days of testing/qualifying beforehand), all while keeping the car fast and under control on most weekends. Sure, F1 cars today may have more grip and speed than previous years, but again,what else is new? His car is more advanced than Schumacher’s winning Ferraris, which was more advanced than Senna’s McLarens, which was more advanced than Lauda's Ferrari and on and on.
I’m not gonna call it what I think a large part of it is, but there’s seems to be so much more vitriol for Hamilton year after year that it’s hard to ignore the one obvious thing that’s different between him and every previous champion...but we should never mention the elephant in the room, right? Sigh...