Micro story: "The last chance of Santa Close", by bonzopoe

Today is the Brazilian Grand Prix of the 2021 Formula One season, and who we see in the image, the 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton, together with his Mercedes teammate, Valtteri Bottas, is playing one of the last chances of trace points and match the battle with Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

The expression that he brings in the photo has been missing for weeks in the face of the real threat of not achieving his goal this year of becoming the first driver with 8 championships. Curiously, Valtterri Bottas, who was always in his shadow, leaves the team at the end of this season, and is having an excellent close to the year, and proof of this is that today he starts the race in the pole position.

The roles have been curiously reversed, and Bottas is as calm as possible, while Hamilton has made mistakes this season finale due to pressure. In this context I remembered something that I wrote a long time ago, and that I share with you below, and that tells us a bit about pilots like Bottas, who are always in the shadow of others who never let them shine, and have numbers at the end of their career that do not do justice to their ability, I hope you like it.

It was the last race of his retirement season, and he was again just a few points away from winning the title.

It was the seventh time he was in second place in the championship, and his last chance to remove the nickname with which he would go down in history for always staying so close: Santa Close.

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