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Who is Formula 1's greatest driver of the 21st century so far - Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel or Fernando Alonso? One man with better insight than most is Mercedes technical director James Allison, who has worked with all four over the past two decades. "If they all had to be in a super-team fighting it out every year, my guess is that Lewis would end up on top," Allison said. The 50-year-old added that he thought Hamilton was the fastest of those four. Allison was talking as part of a BBC Radio 5 live review of Hamilton's fifth world title, secured in Mexico on 28 October. He made it clear that he regarded speculation about where individual drivers ranked against each other as "a sort of idle game, because in a way, who knows? Everyone has an opinion and it's as valuable as that - i.e. not very". He added that he did not think Hamilton would necessarily win each year in this fictional battle. "But if they kept coming back every year to do battle in some sort of Valhalla-type confrontation, more often than not it would be Lewis wearing the crown at the end of the year," Allison said. Brazilian GP preview: Hamilton's Interlagos after-party Watch: 'Hamilton just has the best car, doesn't he?' Brazilian GP radio & online coverage details BBC Sport asked readers on 28 October to vote for their greatest driver of all time - the results are below. Alain Prost 1% Ayrton Senna 25% Fernando Alonso 2% Jackie Stewart 1% Jim Clark 8% Juan Manuel Fangio 5% Lewis Hamilton 27% Michael Schumacher 29% Sebastian Vettel 1% Stirling M Allison worked with Schumacher at Ferrari from 2000-05, with Alonso at two teams - Renault from 2005-06 and Ferrari from 2013-14 - and with Vettel at Ferrari from 2015-16. Asked to analyse how Hamilton differed from the other three, Allison said: "Of that cluster, I think he is the quickest, at his best, and he shows us his best extremely frequently. "I think he is the best of those in qualifying. It's not by accident that he is the all-time pole record holder. He just has a better turn of speed than the others. "He has a record of finding clean but utterly improbable overtakes that surpasses the others. [Hamilton is] maybe not quite at Michael's machine-like consistency, season-in, season-out, year after year. But the Lewis we have seen in the past two seasons here is flawless." Four-time champion Alain Prost told the programme Hamilton had performed "in a very brilliant way sometimes" in 2018 as he and Mercedes defeated Vettel and Ferrari. "From the beginning, we knew it could be an interesting year and it has been even more interesting than we thought," Prost said. "At the beginning of the year, the Ferrari was maybe a little bit better, a little bit more consistent. And then we had a fight between the teams and also between the drivers and the psychology of the drivers. "We have reached the point where everybody can say that Mercedes [have come out on top] on one side - but more than the teams, the drivers, Lewis has done a fantastic job this year. "Just look at his calm when things are not going well. And he has performed in a very brilliant way sometimes in qualifying and races. On the other side, Sebastian did some mistakes, much more than he is used to doing in the past. "Lewis really deserved his titles this year, maybe one of the best of his five." Damon Hill, the 1996 world champion, added that Hamilton's ability to create the balance he wanted, in both professional and private spheres, had been decisive in enabling him to raise his game in the past two seasons. "At times [in previous years] it looked like he was a little bit distracted," Hill said, "and maybe he had a bit too much jet lag, because there were some races when you thought: 'Well, hang on, where's Lewis gone?' "And he has to admit that was true - sometimes he went missing and maybe his off-track lifestyle was contributing to that. "But when you look now at what he's done, you'd have to say he has provided himself with the happiness and contentment in his other life that you need in order to be able to cope with this intense experience of being an F1 driver. "He has taken the pressure off himself. But he has these other things he does and then he can turn up, jump in and win. So there's a smartness. To know yourself that well and to create the right conditions is part of the job of a sportsman, and Lewis has done that."

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They haven't got enough quality grounds for a mens world cup yet,

shame the aussie press are bitter towards the england team, both teams should be proud of themselves.

Should be a tight game but England after penalties

Come on England

The greatest and richest football league in the world is back, who is your team,,,Aston Villa for me

What a great tournament, anyone watching it in oz?

top bloke

England monsters in the white ball game.

They promised rain and we got all exited......not a drop in startford, hope we have some soon my garden is looking like a desert

The UK is not prepared for these long hot summers that look like they will become the norm in the coming decades, we are not set up like say spain is to manage the heat, it is going to be a long time to bring us up scratch with this heat and sun

August set to carry on the trend of oppressive heat, everything is brown and hose pipe bans already in the south.

more heat to come, fed up of this heat now, we desperately need rain

Today's Maximum Humidity 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 99.4% 98.7% 98.1% 98.1% 98.1% 98% 98% 98% 97.5% 97.4% 97.4% 96.8% 10:00 BST Cork Airport 06:00 BST Kinloss 07:00 BST Stornoway 05:00 BST Wick 02:00 BST Sumburgh Cape 02:00 BST Kirkwall Airport 05:00 BST Stornoway 07:00 BST Connaught 07:00 BST Camborne 10:00 BST Lerwick (s. Screen) 06

Forecast for above average temperatures into middle of August, global warming is hitting the UK hard, a climate scientist said this might seem like a cool summer in 30 years time

35c already and forecast to hit 41c, i have lived in countries where it has hit 45c and as it is a dry heat its not to bad, 40c in the UK because of humidity is unbearable. We need to keep our animals safe and the elderly as we are not set up for this heat in the UK

I don't think this will be allowed to be published ‘Nick Kyrgios has brought tennis to the lowest level with his cheating, manipulation, abuse,’ says Pat Cash

Temps to reach 40c next week. this is horrible weather far to hot.

Heat records look to be smashed in UK and Europe in coming days

He would have been knocked out in the semis if nadal had not injured himself

Most of his games are on outside games, he only plays centre court if he playing a high ranked player, centre court is always packed whoever is playing, you cannot get tickets for love or money.

And why.

Not as daft as he makes out, infact he is a very intelligent man,

pat cash and women.....ermmmm have a look at the latest news above