The psychological secrets of Hamilton's greatest season

Lewis Hamilton's fifth Formula 1 title wasn't won easily, coming in a season where Mercedes didn't get the upper hand until the closing stages. He explains what it took to turn things around against a faster Ferrari.

Jonathan Noble Oct 31, 2018, 9:41 AM

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When Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff talked about Lewis Hamilton being the "differentiator" between his team and Ferrari in the Formula 1 title battle, he wasn't just paying lip service to his star driver.

In a campaign where the performance edge has swung frequently between the red cars and the silver cars, the real moments that ultimately defined the destiny of the 2018 title were those of Hamilton magic.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.