That's what Ali G says," he said in a flippant remark for which he later apologised. That he found himself regularly competing with Massa rather than at the front of the field must have been exasperating but when he was given two drive-throughs at Monaco his frustration was given voice. Despite the win in China that followed, he was in trouble again at Monaco, clashing with Felipe Massa for the first time in a season during which the pair seemed unable to avoid one another on track, coming together on six occasions. There would be four more in a year during which he would be investigated by the stewards 14 times. By the second meeting in Malaysia he had received his first drive-through penalty. This year could not have been more different.įrom the start, an off-the-pace McLaren did not augur well but speed was to prove the least of Hamilton's problems. He was in the fight for the championship at the final race in Abu Dhabi, where Sebastian Vettel claimed the win and the title. That season, the absence of a close professional and personal relationship seemed to have little ill-effect.
It was my time to mess about and have a kid's life – to be normal." He noted tellingly, after the split, that while growing up: "School felt like an escape.
Hamilton also revealed that he does not walk circuits anymore, something that is common practice among most F1 teams and drivers during a grand prix weekend.Perhaps it should not have been such a surprise that this hugely successful young man wished to be more in control of his destiny. "The engineers learn more from the fuel usage, the power usage and aerodynamics." "You don't feel the speed, you don't feel the physicality of it.
"You drive the same track the day before and on Monday you drive the simulator and the bumps aren't there, the kerbs are different, the speed is different. "When you get in the simulator you have to adjust all your feelings - you don't get the same movements, the same bumps. "When you get into the simulator you have to adjust yourself to the simulator, and when you get in the car you don't adjust to it, you drive. "There's a difference between driving a simulator and driving the real thing - you have no emotion," Hamilton added. Hamilton said the simulator was more use to engineers than drivers, because the sensations of driving a real car cannot be replicated correctly in a sim. "I could spend £100 on a PlayStation and learn the same amount." When I was at McLaren we did way too much. "I don't drive the simulator a lot because it's not at its best at the moment - we're working on trying to make it better," Hamilton said. Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg recently described parts of Mercedes' simulation of the new Baku street circuit as "weird", and Hamilton said he drove just eight laps in the sim ahead of this weekend's European Grand Prix because of the tool's limitations.
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