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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton celebrating with champagne on the podium after winning the Portuguese Grand Prix last weekend for a record 92nd victory in Formula One.

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton celebrating with champagne on the podium after winning the Portuguese Grand Prix last weekend for a record 92nd victory in Formula One.

PHOTO: REUTERS

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Does the fact that Lewis Hamilton has now scored a record 92 grand prix victories, where a legend such as Sir Stirling Moss won only 16, really mean that he is the best F1 driver in history?
That is a rhetorical question that each of us can only rationalise in our own way, dependent on myriad personal judgments that can never be wholly objective.
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