2 comments on “Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, Yas Marina, 2020”

  1. Dr Estaban de los Casas
    21st December 2020, 16:25

    What unknown long term, returning symptoms show themselves with covid. We are beginning to understand that there are long lasting side effects that the media is suppressing due to society simply can not take much more bad news. By what means is four kilos of fluid lost from racing because of the extreme conditioning he lives his life by. Makes his performance in the highly popular Abu Dahbi Grand Prix actually remarkable. Was it through sweating or did his muscle demands draw fluid away. Look anytime you lose ten pounds in two hours ,when normally Lewis acts like he has been regularly kicking ass in such machines, says much to how sick he was.
    Did he falsely report how sick he really was? Are there any reports being squashed? Did he mislead, thereby lie his way onto the grid? Will we ever know how compromised he was then. I worry about the not yet understood long term effects of Covid to those who present minor complications today. In America today news of a new version a much more serious form of the virus is beginning to
    become to be seen. I think Lewis would have been smarter to sit out that race. He seat being offered up to others has to impacted his decisions. Just a bad combinations of things needed to get done happened at once. Neither Perez nor Stroll reported such weight loss from their Covid.
    So for Lewis to admit the weight loss may be played off as OK but it’s not and you race while the body compromised from extreme sudden weight loss is not ideal.

    1. Why would he be smarter to sit out the race? What would he have gained from by sitting it out? He came back fit enough to claim 3rd in a race that Mercedes said they have no way of winning anyway.

      I see this kind of comment popping up all over the place regarding his comeback, and I simply don’t understand it.

      When people take time off work duetto sickness, they don’t come back when they are absolutely perfect. They come back when they are simply well enough to work – especially those who take their work seriously. Does this mean they are at 100% of efficiency? Of course not. Besides, no employee could wait for an employee to be back at 100% before they came back to work after an illness.

      The point is, he was well enough to compete and didn’t put himself or anyone else in jeopardy. It is that simple.

      I believe these kinds of comments simply belie those who are looking to milk their sick leave and take off as much time as possible – hence they are unable to contemplate an employee who comes back even though he is not 100%, but still well enough to do his job at a decent level.

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