In Formula 1, cars and drivers are intrinsically linked, cannot talk about one without the other.

The great drivers can take a dominant car to places. But even good drivers can win in a dominant car. See Perez, Bottas, Barrichello, Irvine, Webber etc.

In an alternate universe, where Hamilton was stuck in McLaren and Verstappen in Torro Rosso, we could have Perez and Bottas each winning the driver title. Perhaps Webber too if Vettel was somewhere else. Will be like Button claiming a title in a Brawn kind of shocker, but not really as the cars are that good. 

 


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