Defending Formula 1 World Champion Lew♊is Hamilton has insisted that he is not a 'superhuman, just a normal guy' after returning to the scene of one of his most famous and impressive grand prix triumphs in Monaco this weekend - and he confessed that 'the paddock feels a little bit empty' without his long-time mentor Ron Dennis.

Having endured one of the most thankless weekends of his short career in the top flight in Barcelona a fortnight ago - around a circuit that, by dint of its many high-speed corners, really exposed the inherent weaknesses of McLaren-Mercedes' aerodynamically poor ꦉMP4-24 - Hamilton has admitted to being 'encouraged' at the form the multiple world championship-winning outfit has displayed around the narrow, tortuous streets of the fabled Principality so far, after lapping consistently inside the top three throughout the opening day of practice.

Just a week on from having revealed his distaste for the prevalence of politics in F1 and how they have taken away much of the enjoyment of competition for him, the 24-year-old has acknowledged that just one lap around Monte Carlo 'reminds me how much I love this sport, why I love racing and why I love Formula 1' [see separate story - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:click here].

Not for the first time this se𓂃ason, Hamilton - caught up in the infamous Melbourne 'lies' scandal that threatened to tear his reputation to shreds and precipitated a spectacular fall from grace - has opened up his heart to the world's media, arguing that whilst he has come out of the damaging episode stronger for it, he is no 'superhuman'.

"I wouldn't say I am revitalised," the nine-time grand prix-winner is quoted as having said by British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "but I am encoura🌺ged by what happened on the track. As soon as I saw a couple of corners I got that feeling i🃏nside me that I can't wait to get out there again. Monaco is such a special place; I knew it wasn't going to be in a winning car still, but it was very encouraging.

"People look at me and see a superstar and expect someone superhuman, [but] I'm just a normal guy. I have to be able to analyse things so I 𝔉don't make the same mistakes."

Arguably the highest-prof⭕ile sacrificial lamb to the slaughter over the unsavoury Albert Park incident was Dennis, who held the role of team principal at the Woking-based concern from 1981 until earlier this year, stepping down shortly prior to the start of the season and not long afterwards relinquishing any association with McLaren's F1 effort altogether - in what has been suggested was an effort to ensure the team an easier ride in front of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council. Hamilton acknowledged that the💦 absence of the man who had nurtured his career since the age of just ten was a noticeable one.

"I miss Ron," confessed the Stev🦋enage-born ace. "I miss having him around. The paddock feels a little bit empty without 𒅌him here."