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Lewis Hamilton opens up on record-breaking season in Formula One
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2/15/2025
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Seven-time world F1 champion Lewis Hamilton reflects on sensational campaign with Mercedes
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The failures really, really are what build character.
00:04
You know, there's a saying, it's not how you fall, it's how you get back up.
00:11
It's been a remarkable journey with this team,
00:14
and I think what we've achieved is just, it's mind-blowing.
00:17
And it's going to take some time, I think, still,
00:19
it's going to take months for it to properly sink in,
00:22
usually is the case, because we just continue to move on
00:26
to trying to raise the bar and focus on what's next.
00:31
But I'm really proud of everyone and incredibly honoured
00:34
and grateful to be a part of this journey.
00:43
You know, I'd been with McLaren since I was 13, so, you know, it was my family
00:49
and I was very safe there.
00:51
But I think, you know, McLaren had this amazing history,
00:56
they'd had multiple championships, they were super successful.
01:00
And I felt that I wasn't necessarily helping build something.
01:07
It was already an illustrious team, it already had all that success,
01:10
it had the biggest cabinet of trophies.
01:13
And I wanted to go somewhere where I could help,
01:16
I could be a part of building something.
01:19
You know, when I joined this team, it didn't have many trophies in the cabinet.
01:23
You know, it was on the way up, it was growing, it was building,
01:27
there was more people coming.
01:28
And I was like, I want to go somewhere and see if I can utilise
01:33
everything I've learnt on all these years, the privilege of working at McLaren.
01:37
Can I apply that, those learnings to a team that's not
01:42
being very successful to becoming successful?
01:46
And that for me, for sure, it was a risk.
01:51
For sure, there was moments I was like,
01:52
jeez, I don't know when I'm going to win again.
01:53
I had to really analyse a lot of the pros and cons.
01:56
But for me, taking the risk, I mean, if you're not going for a gap,
02:01
you're not, you know what Senna used to say,
02:03
if you're not going for a gap, you're no longer a racing driver.
02:06
I think if you're not taking risks in life, then you're standing still.
02:09
And so I could have stayed there.
02:12
I mean, in hindsight, you look at if I had stayed,
02:15
I wouldn't have another championship to my name.
02:19
I would still have, I would still be one time world champion after 14 years.
02:26
So, you know, things happen for a reason, one way or another.
02:30
I'm really, really grateful that I took that step.
02:33
I took that leap of faith.
02:38
Probably losing my first world championship in 2007.
02:43
Leading the race in China to then putting it in the, you know,
02:48
in the gravel and not being, you know, losing.
02:50
And then the following domino effect of losing the world championship after that.
02:56
That was a really, really hard one to to swallow.
03:00
And I think it was I took it very, very personal for a long period of time
03:04
and didn't really know how to digest it.
03:06
It's such a shock to the system.
03:08
But I think the failures really, really are what build character.
03:15
You know, there's a saying, it's not how you fall, it's how you get back up.
03:18
I'm so grateful that it happened.
03:20
Whilst, of course, I'd love to have that world championship.
03:23
I think I was able to turn that negativity and turn it into a positive.
03:29
And naturally, the lessons from the actual race, but more so the repercussions
03:33
and then the emotion and the kind of the turmoil that you can go through.
03:37
Learning about myself, just, you know, how I deal with failure.
03:40
And I think probably from that and maybe someone's
03:46
after that is learning that you can't change what's just happened.
03:50
Yes, you might not be happy with it, but all you can do is change
03:54
what's ahead of you or try to shape what's ahead of you.
03:57
So now when I have failures, it doesn't take me.
04:00
I'm not stuck in my hotel room for three days,
04:03
not being able to deal with it, not knowing I'm
04:06
able to move on straight away.
04:08
I think I just I had to really just continue to keep my head down,
04:11
keep not giving up and believing
04:15
and trusting in myself.
04:21
And when I joined this team, everyone said,
04:23
this is the worst decision I could ever make.
04:25
Your career is over and we've just won seven world titles.
04:29
So, yeah, I think me growing up, I think naturally I started racing as a kid.
04:35
So all I could think of was having fun, enjoying myself.
04:39
But as I got signed when I was 13 and I started to realize,
04:42
you know, the work that needed that I needed to put in
04:47
whilst doing whilst trying to finish school,
04:49
but also delivering on each weekend and not taking it for granted.
04:52
Yeah, particularly the beginning when my dad was working crazy.
04:56
Of course, as a kid, as a 10 year old,
04:59
13 year old, it was difficult to understand
05:02
because I'd not been in the in the working world.
05:05
It's difficult to understand how difficult it was for him,
05:07
but I could see how stressful for it was for him when he would come home.
05:11
I could see how tough it was wearing on the family
05:16
from the little that we had from the weekends
05:19
that there were weekends that we couldn't compete
05:21
because we didn't have the money to race.
05:23
So I could see that.
05:24
And so I knew that when I did have the chance,
05:27
I needed to knock it out of the park.
05:28
And, you know, I didn't always do that, but I do more often nowadays.
05:35
I think I've always been someone that has hated to lose,
05:40
but I've somehow I don't know, I can't really explain how I've managed to find
05:46
myself on the other side.
05:47
So I love I love getting to the end of that race first.
05:51
And and that the the happiness of that
05:55
lasts a lot longer than it ever did before.
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