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

"Ups and downs with people I’ve worked w🌱ith 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 colle♍agues 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 ha꧙d both legs amputated after a huge crash and who now works for Channel 4 on their F1 coverage.

“I remember being a seven-y💧ear-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 and changed this paddock with your🅘 career.

“How has the process felt, moving to a team like Ferrari? H✨a👍s it sunk in yet?”

Hamilton replied: “It hasn’t, honestly.

“I remember at the start oꦗf the year when I was printing 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.

“𓄧Then, with the relationship, turbul✨ence and ups and downs with people I’ve worked with for years.

“Managing thatꦡ was really tough, throughout ♓the whole year.

“There are so many people, and it haജs affected everybody. To go through this low tꦜime then come back and get to a point here, where love comes through.

“Beyond the upset, or people who can’t imagine you in re♈d, now it’s ‘I wish you all 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. It looks good on me! Hopefully I can 🍎make it work.”

Lewis Hamilton ends Mercedes career

The length of Hamilton’s brilliance in the F1 paddock can be measu♓red 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 onౠe here with a moustache because I’ve known him since he was young!

“I’m pro💎ud of him, he has done some amazing thin꧅gs.”

He added about ending his Mercedes tenure: “I feel a lot of ꦗpride. I am prou✃d 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 honour t๊o be a part of Mercedes.”

Final ‘it’s hammer time’ Lewis Hamilton radio

Peter Bonnington aka Bono has been Hamilton’s raceᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ engineer during his time at Mercedes. Together, they are F1’s most successful race engineer and driver duo.

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

Hamilton said about the grand prix: “I didn’t enjoy the first part w𒊎hen 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 thought it might be a race like Qatar which really suck🐽ed.

“I kept my head down and thought ‘it’s♎꧙ going to get better’.

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

“I ♌remember telling him in 2013, te🌊ll me ‘it’s hammer time!’ And he has never stopped.”

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