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Former Ferrari and Jaguar ace Eddie Irvine believes that British super-rookie Lewis Hamilton could become an even more formidable driver than seven-time champion Michael Schumacher.
The Ulsterman, who was paired alongside the German legend at Ferrari from 1996-'99, joined the growing ranks of former racers paying compliment to the 22-year-old McLaren ace after Hamilton became the youngest ever world championship leader after finishing second in Spain on Sunday.
"Yet again he's [Lewis] beaten a two-time world champion [Fernando Alonso] and he can't do any better than that," Irvine told Virgin Media.
"You can't expect him to win the race because the Ferrari was clearly the better car but he's performing perfectly and there's nothing you can criticise about the guy.
"Nobody has ever walked into a car and been as good as that at the beginning of their F1 career with that amount of talent."
Irvine, who won four grands prix for Ferrari, also reckons that unlike his former team-mate, Lewis does not appear to have any weaknesses in his armoury.
"Schumacher has the same amount of talent, maybe more on speed but I think Lewis seems to be a more complete package than Schumacher," he added.
"Schumacher's ability was pure pace and you can never compare the two because they'll never drive against each other but Michael wasn't great under pressure and Lewis seems to not know what pressure is."
Having beaten Alonso fair and square in their last two outings, Irvine reckons Monaco could prove a crunch test for Lewis's ice-cool composure with the inevitable ramp up of expectations from the media and the British fans.
"It will be interesting to see if Lewis does start to feel any pressure if people now expect him to beat Alonso regularly," he said.
"Expectations will go up and that's when the pressure will go up."
Though Irvine, who was a master of the mind-games when he raced alongside Rubens Barrichello at Jordan, also urged Hamilton to pounce on a unique opportunity to play on Alonso's recent lack of form.
"If you look at when [Jarno] Trulli started to get on top of him at Renault, Alonso started performing worse and that's common amongst drivers," he added.
"When you're quicker than your team-mate you feel good about yourself, you drive faster, you feel faster but when your team-mate starts to get on top of you, you start thinking about it and you go slower.
"Alonso's got a lot to think about now."
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