Even before the start of the 2014 Formula One season, it was widely thought that the only man who could beat Lewis Hamilton to this year's world championship would be himself. His Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg, was considered a highly competent racing driver, a worthy grand prix winner and more than capable of stringing together a stern title challenge—but someone who Hamilton should ultimately dispose of if he had any ambitions of cementing his place as a true great of the sport. The destiny of the crown, then, always hinged upon just how Hamilton—perhaps the most emotional driver on the grid—would react, both on and off-track, whenever things went against him. Would he shroud himself in self-pity, make mistakes in a ...

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Even before the start of the 2014 Formula One season, it was widely thought that the only man who could beat Lewis Hamilton to this year's world championship would be himself. His Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg, was considered a highly competent racing driver, a worthy grand prix winner and more than capable of stringing together a stern title challenge—but someone who Hamilton should ultimately dispose of if he had any ambitions of cementing his place as a true great of the sport. The destiny of the crown, then, always hinged upon just how Hamilton—perhaps the most emotional driver on the grid—would react, both on and off-track, whenever things went against him. Would he shroud himself in self-pity, make mistakes in a ...

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