Lewis Hamilton tells Billy Monger about "ups and downs" with Mercedes colleagues

"Ups and downs wit♈h people I’ve worked with for years"

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

Billy Monger got 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton to confess the difficulties in his💖 relationships with Mercedes c🌃olleagues over the past year.

Hamilton ended his legendary stint at Mercedes with a brilliant drive from 16th to fourth at the season-ending F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

He strolled through the Abu Dhabi paddock afterwards with Monger, the racing driver who had b📖oth legs amputated after a huge crash and who now works for Channel 4 on their F1 coverage.

“I remember being aꦅ seven-year-old watching you on the sofa, jumping and down with my dad, when you won your first world championship,”🍃 Monger told Hamilton on Channel 4’s show.

“You have inspir🏅ed so many kids and chan🔯ged this paddock with your career.

“How has the process felt, moving to aꦇ team like Ferrari? Has it sunk in yet?”

Hamilton replied: “It hasn’t, honestly.

“I remember at the start of the year when I was printing o🅷ff the contract, I couldn’t believe it was actua🐼lly happening.

“It’s been a really, really long year. Tough, to firstly go with th🃏ꦰe announcement.

“Then, with th𒆙e relationship, turbulence and ups and downs with people I’ve worked with for years.

“Managing t✅hat was♔ really tough, throughout the whole year.

“There are so many people, and it h🌌as affected everybody. To go throug🍷h this low time then come back and get to a point here, where love comes through.

💜“Beyond the upset, or people who can’t imagine you in red, now it’s ‘I wish you al🌊l the best’ or tears. It is beautiful. I am grateful to this team. It has been the honour of my life.

“I can’t believe I’ll be in red next year.ꦬ It looks good on me! Hopefully I can make it work.”

Lewis Hamilton ends Mercedes career

The length of Hamilt🔜on’s brilliance in the F1 paddock can 🗹be measured in many ways, not least in his record-equalling seven titles, but also through the time he has known Monger.

Hamilton teased Mo🏅nger: “It’s crazy to see this one here with a moustache because I’ve known him since he was young!

“I’m proud of him, he has done some amazing things.꧒”

He added a𓃲bout ending his Mercedes tenure: “I feel a lot of pride. I am proud of the result and the drive. It has ended on a nice note and 🦩tone.

“All the board members and the team have smiles.

“I am proud of what we’ve done as a team, it’s been an h🌃onour to be a part of Mercedes.”

Final ‘it’s hammer time’ Lewis Hamilton radio

Peter Bonnington aka B✃ono has been Hamilton’s race engineer ꦏduring his time at Mercedes. Together, they are F1’s most successful race engineer and driver duo.

Bono delivered his famous ‘it’s hammer time’♏ ra♔dio message one final time in Abu Dhabi.

Hamilt💙on said about the grand prix: “I didn’t enjoy the first part when everyone started on the medium and I started on the hard.

“I was like ‘shoot, have we got it right?’

“I did not have pace. I struggled with a lot of understeer. It wasn’t going particularly well. I thoughtᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ it might be a ♍race like Qatar which really sucked.

“I kept my head down and thought ‘it’s goi🌜ng to getไ better’.

“People were pitting and I saw on the board that I’d moved up. ‘Hammer time📖!’ It was cool to hear Bono say that because I haven’t for a whiꦚle.

“I remember telling him in 2013, tell me ‘it’s hammer time!’🦋 And ൲he has never stopped.”

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