Hamilton bans sixth F1 title talk
Lewi🐻s Hamilton says he won’t allow his support team to talk about the potential of a sixth Formula 1 world title and will approach the new season like he is hunting his first world championship.
The reigning F1 world champ🌠ion made history last year by sealing his fifth crown last season to move up to joint-second on the all-time list with Juan Manuel Fangio with only Michael Schumacher’s seven championships ahead of him.
Lewis Hamilton says he won’t allow his support team 🌳to talk about the potential of a sixth Formula 1 world title and will approach the new season like he is hunting his first world championship.
The reigning F1 world champion made history last year by seal♏ing&nꦉbsp;his fifth crown last season to move up to joint-second on the all-time list with Juan Manuel Fangio with only Michael Schumacher’s seven championships ahead of him.
Despite securing four of the past five F1 crowns, with Nico Ro🏅sberg splitting his run in 2016, Hamilton has dismissed conversations about a sixth title at the start of this season and wants his entire support team and Mercedes to remain humble.
“For me, it’s not something that I allow my peers to talk about,” Hamilton said. “That’s not what we’re here to focus on, that number. It’s ne𒀰ver [something I have] done before.
“We are alway🅘s driven to do so✅mething new and break boundaries and do stuff that no-one has done before.
“But ܫwe are fully aware of the work that it will take to deliver something like that, and by no means are we like ‘yeah, we’re going for the sixth’, like it’s a relaxed 🦹thing. It’s nothing like that. I’m not focusing on that.”
Ham🌄ilton, who returns to F1 pre-season testing track action this afternoon for Mercedes, is instead using a mental mindset of targeting his first world title with the idea o✤f new challenges in 2019.
“It’s a new season, a new year, a new chapter, and wওe have to approach it like it’s our first and we’re going for number one,” he said. “That’🎶s how I approach it.
“I love that challenge ꦑof each year, coming back in, it’s a new challenge, a new car. It’s like meeting something new.
“You don’t know what he or she is going to be like, you don’t know the good and the💃 bad. The journey that you go on with that partnership with that car, which only a a few of us can take to the limit, i🍌s a really privileged position.
“I love getting back in and givin𒁏g it another shot. Also you put the title out there for anyone else to take. I love that fight.”
