“It broke me down so much” - The best and worst advice Lewis Hamilton has ever heard
Hamilton is F1’s most successful driver in terms of statistics, with the most gran🧸d prix victories, pole positions and podium💞s.
He’s currently level with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher on seven titles apiece, eying a record-breaking eighth in F1 2023.
At 38, Hamilton is the second-oldest driver on the F1 grid after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, but he still remains amongst the best around.
It’s not always been plain-sailing for Hamilton, who has 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:recounted the racist abuse an🅰d bullying he endured during his childhood, while his father, Anthony♔ Hamilton, was forced tꦐo take on multiple jobs to fund his karting career.
Hamilton was asked during the On Purpose podcast by Jay Shetty, to pick out the best and worst pieces of advice he’d heard during his long career i🔯n motorsport.
“My dad: ‘Never give up’,” he said “That has bee🍎n in the back of my mind e🌞very single day.
The other one? ‘Y꧋ou will always be learning’ is what I learne𒆙d from Nelson Mandela.
He said: ‘I am 🙈90 and I’m still learning today, you will always learn something new and grow’.
“When I was younger, the parents of other racing drivers. One guy said: ‘Give up, you just don’t have it!’ A grown man in hi🤡s 40s or 50s. I was eight! He told me to my face! I thought: ‘What do you mean?’I would imagine [he said it] because I was beating his kid.
Teachers said:𝓰 ‘You will never amoun🍰t to anything’. It broke me down so much.”
Hamilton met Ma♕ndela - a key figure in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement before becoming the cou🅰ntry’s first black president - during his first title-winning year in 2008 as part of Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations.
“Nelson Mandela is one of my biggest inspirations,” he added. I was fortunate to meet him aged 23. “It was mind-blowing. I walked in and met him. It was like walking to god or a 🧸k🔯ing! You could see his aura. His smile was beaming. That was the most impactful day for me, as a youngster.
“I got to F1 and had success - you dream of being a racing driver but you don’t dream of other things, like meeting incredible people. I went to Mandela’s ✤90th birthday in London. I was sat on his table! Bill Clinton was there, Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey was nex🙈t to me.
“Then you discover they are just human beings with feelings, emotions and their own challenges. I was so young at the time. I don’t even recognise myself when I look back to🔯 seven years ago. Now, I k🐻now myself more.”
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