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I have been watching all the old Top Gear episodes on Amazon Prime. I just finished the episode from when Lewis changed from McLaren to Mercedes and Clarkson asked if he was just nuts for leaving a successful team to a team that had only won one race at the time. We all know how that decision turned out.
Lewis had driven on the Top Gear track but it was very wet and his time was not a winning time compared to the Stig and Reubens or Vettle. So he came back on a dry day to try again. He was over a second faster than the Vettle who was the fastest until then.
Lewis also mentions that when Rubens Barrichello had beat the Stig he came to the next driver's meeting wearing a t-shirt that said "I beat the Stig" and handed out t-shirts to the other drivers that said The Stig beat me. He said getting to the top of the Top Gear track was a bigger thing than winning Monaco. I suspect that is only partly true.
Love him or hate him, he is a great driver. Lucky as hell, but a great driver.
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Glen
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