Drivers are fitter and more prepared than ever Formula One team bosses said on Friday, denying Lewis Hamilton’s claims that F1 had become so easy physically that youngsters could step into the cockpit without doing any hard work. Hamilton, who is looking to match Michael Schumacher’s Canada Grand Prix record with a seventh win on Sunday, told reporters that drivers should feel like they have run a marathon at the end of race and recalled earlier drivers who were so exhausted they could not get out of their cars. “You cannot compare this time with 20 or 30 years ago when Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell or whoever collapsed after a race,” Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost said on...
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