For those who can't get enough Lewis, here's perhaps a little too much of him. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Overrated, yes. He does not suck as a first class race driver, yes. He does suck tremendously, absolutely yes. yes.
So i guess you could say he is the Greatest Driver ,Who Sucks, Of All Time? This is of course different from the driver who sucks most ....(i hope)
Hamilton 'robbed' by 'boring as f***' F1 template | PlanetF1 : PlanetF1 He may be living the life these days, but Lewis Hamilton says he was “robbed of being able to grow naturally” by F1’s “boring as f***” template of what a driver should be. Hamilton has been on the fringes of Formula 1 since he was a 10-year-old telling then McLaren boss Ron Dennis that he wants to “race for you one day. I want to race for McLaren.” Working his way through the junior ranks with the backing of McLaren, he made his Formula 1 debut in 2007. It hasn’t, however, always been an easy road for the Brit. “There is a template that someone invented for a racing driver,” he told Men’s Health Australia. “You have to be a square and fit into a box and the shape is ‘boring as f***’. “Don’t do anything but live and breathe racing. Don’t enjoy, don’t smile. “Now I feel I was robbed of being able to grow naturally… “I didn’t get to hang out with my friends, it was always racing, always business, always serious.” As the years have gone on, the triple World Champion has broken the mould. This has at times earned him criticism for his jet-set life-style, however, Hamilton, who ranked 11th on Forbes’ list of the highest paid athlete in the world for last year, says he is just experiencing “everything” that he can. “I don’t believe I have a playboy life,” he said. “I’m no less focused than any of my peers. They live a different life. They go home, they are not pictured at events. “I train just as much as them, maybe more. But I do this other stuff. “I have so much energy. I train, I travel, I’m learning about music and fashion, reading a lot. I don’t want to miss anything. I want to experience everything. “If I can be in the studio with Jay-Z, with Pharrell, am I going to do it? **** yeah. I like to be around greatness.” An interesting comment from the comments section- --No, Lewis, it's not F1 that has a "boring as f***" template of what an F1 driver should be, it was McLaren that had that. And you kinda brought that on yourself by asking Ron Dennis to take you under his wing so many years ago. If you'd come into F1 through a different team, your experience would have been a lot different.You were only able to come into your own as an individual once you left that team. There are other drivers that lead just as interesting a life as you do. The difference is, they don't feel the need to broadcast it to everyone.--
I completely agree but when you're 10 and you grew up watching people like Fittipaldi, Lauda, Prost, Senna and Hakkinen in a McLaren winning championships, wouldn't you want to be part of that team? Ron Dennis is just too much of a control freak IMO.
Yes, although those great names had a life before joining Dennis. Same problem with the spotty teens who win X-Factor now. Imagine Frank Sinatra entering the X-Factor at 16, what a boring person he might have become
Exactly, I'm glad he left when he did. He can be a real cry baby when he doesn't get his way though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If he reads the comments sections of any interviews with him, he must cry a lot too then! I'm not sure I'd be comfortable reading how much of a ****** I was, nor reading back my own statements on how I was the second coming of god almighty on track, and that I'm learning all I can about fashion and music, what a tool
Boring as **** eh? Me thinks Elton is just showing off in Menshealth, assuming everyone will take his word as gospel. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Kimi in a Formula-K!? Makes sense the owner is a Ferrari test driver. Good'ol iceman Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
