Stewart unsure Hamilton best ever driver
F1 legend Sir Jackie Stewart is not sure Lewis Hamilton is any more talented than the other top drivers on the grid.
The triple world champion says Hamilton was a "lucky boy" to have made the move to Mercedes just before the German giant started to dominate.
"Lewis is a very lucky boy to be in a position to have such enormous support behind him," Stewart told the Mirror newspaper.
"What Lewis did was move at the right time to Mercedes. Of course he's a very good driver. But is he better than Sebastian Vettel? Or Fernando Alonso, Alain Prost, Jim Clark, Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher or Jackie Stewart?"
And the 79-year-old says it is possible Hamilton will become a six-time world champion in 2019.
"I think he again has a very good chance of winning because the other teams just don't have the performance or the reliability that Mercedes have," said Stewart.
"That's why there have been so many multiple grands prix victories and world champions now because the car has to be fast, but it's also got to be reliable."
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I don't believe he is best ever driver as he has never had to prove himself in a poor performing car. The likes of Schumacher/Alonso and others won with cars that were never expected to win. Admittedly Schumacher spent several years in Ferrari whilst it was at it's best but that wasn't the case when he joined them and he put 110% effort in. Lewis was lucky with both McLaren and Mercedes doesn't make him a bad driver just not, in my opinion, as talented as others.