Lewis Hamilton’s possible “personal problems”
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was extremely inconsistent in the second half of the 2010 Formula 1 season as he retired out of 3 races and won 1 race followed by 2 podiums. The young British driver was leading the drivers’ standings by quite a margin before
his retirements and it is quite obvious and clear that he would have easily won the driver's title at least if he kept his cool and avoided the crashes he forced himself into.
Lewis is an extremely talented and aggressive driver which is the perfect combination. He was able to score the 2nd place in his debut season in 2007 alongside Fernando Alonso. Both of the McLaren drivers had a tie on 109 points just a single
point behind the Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen.
However, Hamilton proved his point next year as he secured the title after a dramatic grand finale in Brazil. It was until 2009 that Lewis Hamilton kept performing consistently fast and scored outstanding results. It seems that the only thing that changed
in Hamilton’s life was that he finally found a girlfriend who was quite hot and famous at the same time, the perfect combination.
Lewis had a disastrous 2009 Formula 1 season but one cannot blame him for it entirely as his team was unable to provide him a good car and since Ferrari was also not performing up to the mark, the team did not mind their performance much. The 2009 Formula
1 season was the new teams’ year as Red Bull and Brawn GP shined in darkness all of a sudden.
Nevertheless, the 2010 Formula 1 season was pretty good for both Ferrari and McLaren and since Lewis’s arch enemy Fernando Alonso was now a part of Ferrari, it seemed that things were going to be tougher than ever now.
Red Bull was able to maintain its pace in 2010 and it seemed that Ferrari and McLaren were going to have some tough competition alongside them this year. Lewis Hamilton performed extremely well in the first half of the 2010 Formula 1 season as he consistently
scored podiums and wins but Ferrari was unable to perform up to the mark.
However, the whole story interchanged in the second half of the 2010 Formula 1 season as McLaren was now looking extremely weak as compared to Ferrari and Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton was unable to perform at his best and made some idiotic moves at the Italian
and Singapore Grand Prix which concluded to a retirement.
He recently stated that he was unable to perform at his best in the second half of the 2010 season because of “personal problems”. He did not reveal the problem though but many people believe that he was referring to the problems he is having with his father
since the beginning of this season.
Lewis Hamilton’s father Anthony has always been by his side as his manager but this time, it seems that he was not there and that could have been the problem he was trying to indicate.....or maybe not.
Maybe he was facing some problems and his girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger decided to leave him.....again. Or maybe it was because of the fact that he just could not stand Fernando Alonso in the red Ferrari livery and realized after Fernando won the German
grand prix that he could be a huge threat for him in the near future.
Nevertheless, whatever it was, this is what Formula 1 or as a matter of fact, every sport is about: controlling the pressure and giving good performances consistently. Everyone has problems and if Lewis Hamilton cannot keep himself from thinking about his
“personal problems”,
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