Lewis Hamilton: Formula 1 Driver Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Lewis Hamilton has been something of a unique figure in the British media during his Formula 1 career. When he first arrived, he was nearly unanimously loved by the media and was very much the golden boy for the sport.When he started to struggle in 2011, it became a witch hunt. The same media that loved him a few years ago began circling like vultures.Personally, I have never been a Hamilton fan. I respect his abilities on the track, but I don't like his personality off the track.However, I feel the way he was treated by the media throughout the 2011 season was wrong. He didn't help himself—with his own idiotic comments after the Monaco Grand Prix as one example example—but it did seem like the media were just waiting for s...

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