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Do you think with Lewis Hamilton it is a case of too much too soon.
If you look at Alonso, Schumacher, Raikonnen and Button, they in various parts of their careers had rubbish cars on which to cut their teeth. Lewis didn't. He walked into the best car on the grid and almost won in his rookie year.
I think he is into the life style a lot. OK Button admitted the same with himself but I think that was more what moeny could bring, he had to drive rubbish cars until last year. I think psychologically Jenson might have the edge over Lewis.
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Well last year Lewis had a poor car with rubbish performance for most of the season, and nil chances of fighting for the championship, and despite that he fought in all the races as if his life went on that. I think his problem is of too good too young. Too much talent combined with arrogance -which feeds itself back in that huge talent- AND youth. The incident with the police shows it clearly, it's just youth and inmaturity combined with an explosive character. But he isn't in any way the first F1 driver to have similar trouble with police, IIRC the very own Jackie Stweart did something similar. Add to that, that his father is no longer at his side, and the coctel becomes explosive. Which is really sad. I hope he settles down and matures, when he does that, he might make history with capital letters because his talent is i-m-p-r-e-s-s-i-v-e (The overtaking maneuver on Rosberg is amazing, instant classic).
A fine example of how good and benefiting it is to swallow arrogance is now Fernando Alonso, who could have moaned a lot but instead showed himself delighted at the end of the race. He did a great come back from P 18 and did not enter a stupid fight with Massa. In any case he would never have been able to go past Kubica, so only few points lost there: In the end, his 4th position was good enough to stay in front of the championship, Ferrari was happy with the teamwork, and he showed clearly that he was much faster than Massa the whole race. Who would have thought it some years ago, when we would have seen him crying in the radio that Massa was obstructing him, requesting teamwork, bla, bla, bla...
Jenson has always had my sympathy, so now that Kimi is no longer here, I might indeed become a Jensen fan. With such great races, it's no wonder!