McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton: I will race with my own style or quit the sport – Formula 1 news
McLaren’s Formula 1 driver has threatened that he will rather quit the Formula 1 sport if he is forced to drive the car like a snail.
The 2008 Formula 1 world champion stated that he knows only one style of driving and that is to the limit. He said he will not change his style just because some accidents happened in the Monaco Grand Prix.
These comments from the Brit come in light of the Monaco Grand Prix incidents where he was involved in more than one accidents of the race.
Hamilton stated, “In all honesty I will never stop racing the way I do. It's the way I do it, If it ever comes to a stage where I had to pull back and just cruise around, that would not excite me and I probably wouldn't stay around for that.”
He added, “That's what got me here, it is the way I am. I don't do it to offend people or to hurt anyone. I do it because I love racing, and I feel like I can do it better than others.”
Out of the six races of the 2011 Formula 1 season, the Brit has been called by the stewards five times which makes him believe that Formula 1 officials want him to change.
In the Monaco Grand Prix last week, Hamilton was involved in two accidents which according to him were not his fault at all.
Firstly, in the mid stages of the race, Ferrari’s Felipe Massa came under siege when Hamilton tried to overtake him on the squeezed turn. Massa’s car was damaged and in the very next lap he crashed in the famous tunnel of Monaco.
Then in the concluding moments of the race, Hamilton collided with Williams’ Pastor Maldonado. The Venezuelan driver lost a golden opportunity to score points and crashed his car into the guard rails.
Hamilton was penalised twice in the event and ended the race in sixth place. Still he thinks that his aggressive driving style is what is keeping him in the hunt. He also said that just because a weekend went bad in Monaco he will not give up his driving
style.
The seventh round of the 2011 Formula 1 season continues in Canada on June 12.
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