Personal assistant and physio Cullen spent seven years alongside Hamilton in the paddock, a crucial🦹 part of his inner-circle and a trusted confidante.

But she left her role, and has been replaced by new people, although the professionalism she taught Hamilton has n🀅ot been forgotten.

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"My recovery is better,” the Mercedes driver, now 38,😼 🅺said. 

“I'm more f♑ocused on recovery than I ever💞 was before.

"When I was ꧋22, I wasn't focused on recovery. I didn't even know anything about recovery. 

“I was just going home, probablyꦍ having a pizza, not knowing what ꧅I needed to do the next day.

"For recovery, I didn't have any specialists around me to help me navigate tౠhat.

"I had a physio, but we didn't do a hug🌠e amount. We did some training together, we did some swimming together.

“But otherwise I didn't have all the details of how you want to eat, how to replen🅺ish the liquid you lose, stretching, all those diffe🌟rent things.

"I wasn't doing tꦬhat back then. But I don't know if those drivers back in the day were that fit, so they probably fell off more than us because we train a lot more tha𝔍n they did back then."

Hamilton 🧔is now the second-oldest driver on the F1 grid, behind 41-year-old Fer𓂃nando Alonso.

Hamilton’s F1 career is likely to stretch into his 40s as he plots a new contract to stay with Mercedes, although it remains unsig𝐆ned.

He will start the F1 Miamꦕi Grand Prix from 13th after yet another nig꧋htmare session in the troublesome W14.