Lewis Hamilton Interview: Distractions, Social Media and His Approach to Racing

Lewis Hamilton is an easy target. He is young, rich, successful, attractive and, it must be said, he seems to enjoy showing it all off. He is also the only current Formula One driver with any pop culture currency, which must be unsettling to those who would rather think of them as joyless automatons, singularly dedicated to the craft of driving and shaving another hundredth-of-a-second off off their Sector 2 time. Because Hamilton has other interests in his life and because those interests include partying with fellow celebrities and jetting around the world on his private plane, he receives an undue amount of criticism from some segments of the media and of F1's fanbase. Bleacher Report spoke with Hamilton about handling that criticism, am...

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