Scott Mitchell-Malm
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1,231 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Scott Mitchell-Malm’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he kind of falls off either side of that narrow peak.
This is a much broader peak now.
So we can...
we can say with a reasonable degree of confidence, this is the level that Hamilton is performing at in 2026, rather than a perfect storm of factors.
One thing that I really liked about Barcelona, and I wrote this after qualifying in particular, is to come away from Canada and Monaco, back-to-back, second-place finishes, strong drives there, OK, circumstances may have helped the final result, whatever...
The main asterisk there, if there was one, is there's still outlier circuits, there's still places where Hamilton has a really good record, where certain things do kind of align that can make a difference in your end result and how it looks.
There wasn't to take anything away from him, it's just that thing of, like, you want the biggest sample set possible.
But after qualifying at Barcelona, when he's, whatever it was, what, half a tenth from pole on a circuit that tests not only the car but the job the driver does...
at that point I was like this is just his level this is just where he's at now because this would have exposed it and obviously we didn't see exactly what Charles Leclerc would have done in Q3 and if Leclerc had been on pole by a tenth and a half and Hamilton's third two tenths of drift you go that's good but it's not great and it's not you know the Hamilton of old
But it now means that moving forward for the rest of the season, or certainly for the next few races up to the summer break, that's the standard that Hamilton will benchmark himself against, that Ferrari will expect, and that we will expect too, rather than just looking at it and going, oh, isn't it nice to see Hamilton have a nice result from time to time?
It's like, no, this is what he needs to be doing.
This is what he should be doing.
This is what he's capable of doing still.
Great contemporary reference, Ed.
If it was as simple as basically mega-intelligent switched-on driver comes to Ferrari with knowledge of a title-winning championship, Sebastian Vettel's sin at Ferrari would have gone a lot better than it did.
It's an institution and an organisation that is inherently resistant to change for starters, but also it is just more complicated than, well, can we just replicate everything we were doing over there?
I don't think really that's what the intelligent top drivers do, for one thing, but it is...
As Mark says, it's about getting the best out of them.
And in a way, with what Ferrari's done with Hamilton eventually, it's kind of the inverse of the usual phrase.
They've put their mouth where their money is.
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