Having worked closely with both Michael Schumacher and Sir Lewis Hamilton, Jock Clear offers his thoughts on the ingredient common to these two seven-times World Champions – and, for that matter, to Max Verstappen. This is an edited excerpt from a recent livestream, the full version of which can be watched on this channel under the “live” tab.
Jock Clear won the 1997 World Championship with Jacques Villeneuve (Williams-Renault) and the 2014 World Championship with Lewis (Mercedes). At Ferrari in recent years he has performance-engineered with Sebastian Vettel, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.
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Lewis had a baked in 50bhp and weak teammate Bottas, …beaten by more teammates than any Champion.
Schuey was on another level
Lewis had the best car for most of those championships!
And Mercedes found him a team mate that would move out of the way!
Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher are both horrible human beings. Zero sportsmanship. Horrible teammates.
Jock Clear is lying to our faces because he will soon see Lewis in the pits.
Are these comments sections populated by anti Hamilton bots or just me? Intresting who sent them here…
I am very happy to say I saw Michaels career from his first race in 1991 until his retirement. He was a very exciting driver to watch, always giving 100% and never giving up.
It’s funny to see Jock bring up Michael’s moments of terrible sportsmanship. I felt the same about it so I never quite liked Schumi because of this. But what was undeniable was Michael’s committment and work ethic, even to those of us who followed F1 without even being Schumacher fans. The guy was at Fiorano during the week, clocking in lap after lap, always trying to improve, always trying to find an edge.
It’s likely much the same with Lewis, though times are different and there’s a limit on testing now. People like to compare these guys in terms of who won against who, how good their team mates were and all sorts of other things, but the best ones always kept fighting, always got back up, always kept showing up hungry for the win and kept pushing themselves and their teams to greatness. It’s no accident Lewis and Michael sit at the top of all the record tables.
They should retire.
Jock Clear didn't get along with any of the great drivers
Nice to see someone acknowledge shumi was a lesser man and terribly petty. Winning isn’t everything, it’s just not
An illegal tyre test in 2013 and the most dominant package in F1 history from 2014 onwards.
Before that, he was worse than Raikkonen and the Eyebrowman Spaniard.
Commonality 1: A ridiculously dominant car?
Michael Schumacher changed the landscape of Formula for every other driver after him. He became the acid test for success and it's so refreshing to hear Jock state this ❤