168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton says he “massively underestimated”♑ how difficult leaving Mercedes w🌸ould be.

This weekend’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marks Hamilton’s final race with Mercedes before the seven-time wo𝓰rld champion completes a blockbuster switch ✤to rivals Ferrari next year.

Hamilton has won six of his seven world titles with Mercedes during his 12-season stint with the Silver Arrows and has admitted his impending departure has been harder to deal with than he initia♌lly expected.

The 39-year-old Briton, who said he is feeling “pretty calm” heading into his last weekend with Mercedes, admitted there have been some “awkward” moments to nav🦂igate along the way.

“The first meeting ജwith Toto at the beginning of the year was awkward. ꦜOf course it was awkward from the get-go,” Hamilton told media including on Thursday in Abu Dhabi.

“The day after I took the team paintballing and they had just found out… There’s been loads of moments throuไghout the year. I got shots and had loads of bruises. People went in on me that day!

“I anticipated it would be difficult but massively underestimated how difficꦐult. It was straining on🥂 the relationship very early on and took time for people to get past it.”

Hamilton ‘not been my best’ in handling emotions

Hamilton said he has also struggled to ꦅcope with the emotional toll his Mercedes departure has had on him, conceding he has “not been at my best”.

“Just for my own self, it’s𓃲 been a very emotional year for me and I think I’ve not been at my best i꧅n dealing with those emotions,” he explained. 

“I think you’ve all 💧seen the worst of me and the best of me and I’m not goꦺing to apologise for either because I’m only human and I’m not always going to get it right.

“I would definitely say this year has been oneཧ of the worst in terms of handling it from 🀅my side, which I’ll try to be better at. I hope the good and the highs far outweigh the negatives in terms of how I’ve behaved.

“I just remember the good times and I’ve built some incredibleꦜ relationships. When you go through a season together with so many people, not only on those weekends you are riding highs a꧙nd lows together but also in their personal lives, through marriages, through divorces, through loss of family members, through cancer, through all sorts.

“You are going through all these mom🔴ents with people and it’s a really beautiful journey you go on together. Being there for so long, the emotions run so deep.”