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

"Ups and downꦐs with ꦏpeople I’ve worked with for years"

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

Billy Monger got 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton to confess the difficulties in🧔 his relationships with Mercedes colleagues 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 aft꧙erwards with Monger, the racing driver who had both legs amputated after a huge crash and who now works for Channel 4 on their F1 coverage.

“I remember being a 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 inspired so many kids anﷺd changed this paddock with your career.

“How has the process🌞 ൲felt, moving to a 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 𝔍printing off the contract, I couldn’t believe it was actually happening.

“It’s been a really, really💯 long year. Tough, to firstly🐻 go with the announcement.

“Then, with the rღelationship, turbulence and ups and downs with people I’ve worked with for ꦑyears.

“Managing that was rea💫lly tough, ⛦throughout the whole year.

“There are so many people, and it has affected everybody. To go through this low time then come 🌼back and get to a 𝐆point here, where love comes through.

“Beyond the upset, or people who can’t imagine you in red, now it’s ‘I wish you all the best’ or tears. It is beautiful. I am gr🐷ateful to this team. It has been the honour of my li🧸fe.

“I can’t believe☂ I’ll be in red next year. It looks good on me! Hope🐼fully I can make it work.”

Lewis Hamilton ends Mercedes career

The length of Hamilton’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 Monger: “It’s crazy to see this one here with a moustache because I’ve known𓆏 him since he was young!

“I’m proud of him, 🎀ꦉhe has done some amazing things.”

He added about ending his Mercedes tenure: “I feel a loℱt of pride. I am proud of the result and the driv𒅌e. It has ended on a nice note and tone.

“All the board members and the team have smiles.

“I am p🃏roud of what we’ve done as a team, it’s been an hono🅠ur to be a part of Mercedes.”

Final ‘it’s hammer time’ Lewis Hamilton radio

Peter Bonnington aka Bono has been Hamilton’s race engineer during his time at Mercedes. Together, they are F1’s mo൲st successful race engin⛎eer and driver duo.

Bono delivered his famous ‘it’s hammer👍 time’ radio message one final time in Abu Dhabi.

Hamilton 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 unde꧑rsteer. It wasn’t going particularly well🔯. I thought it might be a race like Qatar which really sucked.

“I kept my head down and thought ‘i🌱t’s going 🎶to get 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 a𓂃 while.

“I reme✅mber telling him in 2013, tell me ‘it’s hammer time!’ And꧅ he has never stopped.”

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