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- Anything with an engine.

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I really enjoy doing.

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Hopefully I'll be
racing Formula One.

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- When you get in
that Formula One car,

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everything just disappears

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and it's the most
amazing thing ever.

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- Well, my mindset's the
same as it is every year.

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I want to win.

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- Lewis Hamilton is one of
the greatest sportsmen ever,

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not just for Great
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but also the world.

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- All those years ago,

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we were all siting in
the back of a trailer

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in a little cavalier
and everything,

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we can never have
imagined being here.

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For me, growing up,

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having people you see on TV

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that could put a big
smile on your face,

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for me, I've never
really imagined

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that I'd be able to
do that to young kids.

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- He, naturally, has
an aura about him.

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Champions do.

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- There's certain days,

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when watching a driver
transcending their machinery

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and performing to a level
that you weren't expecting,

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that's kind of like art,

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that's beyond just watching
a sporting spectacle,

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and Lewis is one of
the very few drivers

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who has done that
in their career.

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- He's not just
about motor racing.

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He's about fashion,
he's about music,

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he's about political activism,

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he's about veganism.

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- Yes, I've won
this seventh title,

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but we have another
big, big fight to win

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and that's for racial
equality across the board.

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- In Britain,

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we've always had a strong
motorsport heritage.

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We've had so many Formula
One teams based here,

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we've got what was called
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where so much racing
skill, and technology,

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and expertise has
come out of there.

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So most of the Formula One
teams currently are based

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here in the UK,

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and that means you've
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that interest, that influence,

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whether it's engineers,

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it's mechanics, or it's drivers.

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And that meant we were ahead of

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many other places in the
world in terms of having

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a conveyor belt of
talent coming through.

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- Circuit racing
and hill climb was

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really embraced by Britain.

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There were enough people
who were mad enough

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to go out and buy
their own cars.

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And maybe it's the
fact that we still had

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quite an upper class at the time

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and there were enough people

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with enough disposable income

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to be able to be the third son

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of a rich family and
go and kill yourself

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on a motor track,

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but it somehow seemed to appeal,

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and the motor industry
grew up around it

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because there was so much
enthusiasm to get faster cars.

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- It's always hard to
compare across areas,

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it sounds like a cop-out answer,

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but Formula One has changed
so much with technology,

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but what Lewis has done
transcends a number

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of different eras and
technical regulations.

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He's won every season he's raced

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and he's done it
all while fighting

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for causes off-track as well,

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that kind of means he
transcends the sport.

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You can talk about
someone like Jim Clark,

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who lost his life too young

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to maybe hit some of the records

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that Lewis has been able to,

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and he's spoken about,
by some older journalists

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and an older viewers and fans,

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as the greatest
British driver ever.

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But I think the way
that Lewis has continued

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to be successful year-after-year

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in different eras
himself is what puts him

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above everybody else,

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and the statistics
back it up too.

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- You can look back
to the early days,

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and Jackie Stewart,
and to Jim Clark,

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and to some of the more lionized
drivers, like James Hunt,

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who, of course, there's huge
amount of affection for.

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- I think what someone

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like James Hunt did
was put Formula One

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more in the public
eye, public conscience,

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for a wider range of people

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who, maybe, then saw what
you did off the track

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as much as they saw
what he did on it.

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And Lewis has done
something similar,

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but maybe for different
ethnic groups.

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The fact that he's the first
black Formula One driver

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just opened up this huge
other number of people

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who might be interested
in the sport,

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who might look at
him as a role model.

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And whether they do or
don't like Formula One,

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they just see someone
who's being successful

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in a field that previously
someone hadn't been.

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- He's someone who can engage

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the worlds of fashion and
of sport outside of F1,

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which motorsport tends to keep
itself very, very separated.

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Formula One is 70 years old,

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which, in human terms, is
a couple of generations.

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In racing terms,

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Formula One is all
about its own heritage,

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it's all about its own pedigree,

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because it talks about
the heritage of the cars

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that came up through it,

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but a lot of what
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its basis in a particular class,

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in a particular type of people.

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You see in every
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the same names.

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There is just a huge amount
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in the family footsteps,

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and there's not very many people

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who necessarily see
a problem with that,

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in terms of that
excluding other people.

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So it's very unusual
to see people come in

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from a background that
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from Formula One.

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- Going really fast.

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Anything with an engine,
I really enjoy doing.

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Hopefully, I'll be racing
Formula One for McLaren.

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- He started off with
a remote control car,

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which is a very
unusual route in.

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- He used to race that
at a very high level

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and he showed that
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controlling something like that.

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- Lewis Hamilton is
only seven years old.

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How long have you been
racing cars already, Lewis?

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- About a year.

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- So you must be
pretty good at it.

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Is it easy to do?
- No.

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- What you have to do then?

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- This is the brake.
- That's the brake.

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You need the break.

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- And these are
the turn steering.

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- So then his dad said,

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"Okay, well, what
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"if you're behind the wheel
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So he went into karts,

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again, at a young age.

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Six or seven, he was
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and could go and try that out,

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and he just had this
affinity and love for speed.

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And it was a bit of
an expression for him

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to go out and enjoy himself.

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- Ever since I got into karting,

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there was always a danger there.

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And I think it was that,

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I guess you could call it,

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the fear factor
or whatever it is,

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just knowing knowing
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that danger there is exciting.

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Some people don't like
it, some people do,

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and that's something
that spurs me on.

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- It's a huge ask
in terms of time

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and the money is
just staggering.

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You are still talking
about more than a house,

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and that's just to
get to single seaters.

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- Motorsport's an expensive
sport at the best of times,

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but even from karting level,

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you need a lot of
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to go racing each week.

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And in order to help
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his father, Anthony, was
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He was working full time

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but then on top of that,

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he did little odd jobs

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just to bring in extra money

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to buy things like a trailer
to put the go-kart in,

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to buy things like spare
tires to go racing again.

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They never really had the
best equipment early on,

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until they got bigger support.

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- Having those strong
family bonds, of course,

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is going to be super
important to you,

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especially when you're going

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through something where you're
the only thing like you.

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- Lewis' father,
Anthony, was always there

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to help guide him through,

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certainly in the early
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He was his mechanic
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but then he became his manager

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as they went through the ranks

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and was very influential
in trying to see

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which way Lewis went.

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- His father was
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but also it comes from
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Here's someone who freely admits

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he's very competitive,

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but it's also the
mind management,

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the mental strength to make sure

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that you maximize your talent.

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- We all clash with our parents,

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and definitely when
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of your own ambition and theirs,

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things can get very heated.

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But Anthony was
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to find ways into the world.

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He found Jenson
Button's dad and got him

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to help him with tooling karts.

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He found ways to connect to
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even though it
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he knew much about.

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It's really very, very
wealthy people who compete.

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- And they can spend
huge sums of money

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on having the best equipment,

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the best kart,

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even the best motor
home to sit in

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in-between races,

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whereas Lewis would have
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I think for any young
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they're going to look at

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who has the money and going
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Not just because
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to sit in a nice motor
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but because that equipment

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that you're racing can have
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You can be the best driver ever,

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but if your kart is down
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then someone else is going to

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just blast past you
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and that will frustrate
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or anyone else who
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at that time.

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And it drives them
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to try that bit harder

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and prove that
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and worthy of having
the same equipment

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- Lewis' journey is remarkable.

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You talk to him, you
talk to his father,

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you talk to his brother,

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about how they were
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with contempt,

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with open racist attitudes.

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They would turn up in their car

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and wait in the car park,

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and there would be
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these looks of disdain,

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as they were there.

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It's an almost puzzlement,

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"Why are you here?

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"Who are you?

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"What are you doing?

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"This isn't your...

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"This isn't your sport, really.

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"We don't see black people
doing motorsport like this."

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- He was astronomically
successful.

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He didn't get up the
karting ladder by accident,

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he got up it because he
was noticeably better

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than almost anyone else.

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- When Lewis was
coming up through

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the karting ranks,

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there was this young karter
called Niki Richardson

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who was a year above him,

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who was the standout
talent at that time,

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and they'd be karting at
Rye House Go-kart Track.

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And Lewis' father, Anthony,

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would go and stand where
Nikki was braking and say,

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"This is where you need
to hit the brakes."

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Of course, to try
and improve, Lewis,

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he'd probably go a
little bit further,

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a little bit closer
to that corner

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and say, "You find some more
time if you brake even later."

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And it wasn't always the
most successful technique.

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Lewis did that end
up in the barriers

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quite a few times,
trying to get it right,

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but it meant he was
trying to make sure

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he got absolutely everything
out of the machinery he had

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by looking at what
the best was doing,

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just ahead of him.

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- The sport is littered
with young drivers

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who showed huge potential
in Junior Formulae

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and then just fell away
for whatever reason.

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Lewis Hamilton never faltered.

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- Lewis was having a solid start

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to his life in go-karts,

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but he hadn't achieved
anything huge until '95

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when he won a
British championship.

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And by winning
that championship,

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he got to go to the
Auto Sports Awards,

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where the champions
were recognized.

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And while he was there,

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he took the opportunity,
as a youngster,

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to go up to Ron Dennis,

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who was the CEO and chairman
of the McLaren Group,

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who had the McLaren
Formula One team,

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and say, "One day, I want
to drive one of your cars."

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So Ron gave him his signature,

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as Lewis had asked
for, but said,

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"Call me in," I
think, "nine years

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"and see if we
can do something."

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And it didn't take
that long before Ron

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actually was speaking to Lewis

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about a future in Formula One

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- What an opportunity he
gave me, at 13 years old,

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to make my way to Formula One.

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And it's such an
amazing story to see

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that 10 years of hard grafting

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with the support
of a huge company

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and what you can do with it.

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- So I won't keep
you waiting too much,

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[indistinct] Ron's probably
gonna get up here or...

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I don't know.

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Are you gonna come up here, Ron?

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No?

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- Ron Dennis is
hugely influential

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in the Lewis Hamilton story

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because he had the power.

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- For any driver that
wants to reach Formula One,

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you need to have huge backing.

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Be that through a sponsor,

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if it's family money,
great if you've got it,

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or through a Formula
One team that wants

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to help you get there.

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And without McLaren's support

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and Ron Dennis' support,

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then Lewis would have struggled

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if no one else had stepped
up and filled that role.

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So McLaren were
very, very central

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to him making it to Formula One.

333
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- After a certain point,
it is simply impossible,

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unless you are very rich,

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to fund a career as
a private individual.

336
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So when you get to
the stage of moving up

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to the junior series,

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then you're dependent on the
team keeping hold of you.

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A lot of his appeal to
McLaren was being British,

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because they were always
particularly interested

341
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in picking up British talent.

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There hadn't been a huge
field of it for a while.

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- I've come here to enjoy
and to live my dream,

344
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and that's what I'm doing.

345
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- Lewis was picked
up by McLaren in '98,

346
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but then he went through a
few more stages of karting

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before he made it into cars.

348
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And he joined Formula
Renault in the early 2000s,

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and had one season
where he had a few wins

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but wasn't consistent enough

351
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to win the title,

352
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and then went to dominate
it in the second year.

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And that's really
when he stood out,

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that he was going
to be able to win,

355
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not just in go-karts,

356
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but in cars as well.

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- It's a big step up.

358
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There's a lot more eyes on you,

359
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there's a lot more attention.

360
00:13:03,783 --> 00:13:07,269
Suddenly, the talent scouts
and the managers are looking

361
00:13:07,303 --> 00:13:10,203
and people are also
looking to see you fail.

362
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- Any driver that
might look good

363
00:13:16,934 --> 00:13:18,349
in a go-kart has no guarantee

364
00:13:18,383 --> 00:13:20,282
that they're gonna be good
in an actual racing car

365
00:13:20,316 --> 00:13:22,318
because the move into
Formula Renault cars is

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the first time you then
have wings on the car

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that create downforce,

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so it's a totally
different style of driving.

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You're kind of driving a go-kart

370
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a lot with the steering,

371
00:13:30,154 --> 00:13:31,155
but lot with the
throttle as well

372
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to get the rear
end moving around.

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With a Formula Renault,

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or a similar single seater car,

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that downforce produced
by the wings means

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that you drive it
totally differently.

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So Lewis being successful
in that category was

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a really good sign.

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Then, as you move up to
something like Formula Three,

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there's more power
and more downforce.

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So it's just the whole
performance overall is improved.

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The same with GP2.

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And there's no power
steering in some of these,

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so physically it
gets tough as well.

385
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And then once you
reach Formula One,

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the levels are so high.

387
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There's power steering
because there has to be,

388
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otherwise you won't be able
to physically control the car

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with the amount of
downforce it has

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and the power it has.

391
00:14:01,185 --> 00:14:02,980
But it's all about the
speeds being higher

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in terms of straight
line and cornering.

393
00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:06,293
- A lot of people
look at it as like...

394
00:14:06,328 --> 00:14:08,295
They'll be like, "Oh, they're
just driving in circles.

395
00:14:08,330 --> 00:14:09,124
"It's just driving a car.

396
00:14:09,158 --> 00:14:10,159
"What's physical about that?

397
00:14:10,194 --> 00:14:11,678
"What's athletic about that?"

398
00:14:11,712 --> 00:14:12,610
I mean, aside from the fact

399
00:14:12,644 --> 00:14:14,025
that it's unbearably hot,

400
00:14:14,060 --> 00:14:15,924
it's like sitting in a sauna,

401
00:14:15,958 --> 00:14:17,926
and that's the cooler races

402
00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,824
before you start
going to somewhere

403
00:14:19,859 --> 00:14:21,895
like Bahrain or the Singapore.

404
00:14:23,172 --> 00:14:26,969
There's reflexes that have
to be so, so, so fast.

405
00:14:27,004 --> 00:14:28,660
You also have to
do lots and lots

406
00:14:28,695 --> 00:14:31,284
of micro-adjustments
across the steering wheel.

407
00:14:31,318 --> 00:14:33,148
You'll see them constantly
moving their hands,

408
00:14:33,182 --> 00:14:34,183
and that has to be accurate

409
00:14:34,218 --> 00:14:35,564
and it has to be
perfectly learned,

410
00:14:35,598 --> 00:14:38,187
which might not sound
like an athletic thing

411
00:14:38,222 --> 00:14:39,671
but realistically, it is.

412
00:14:39,706 --> 00:14:40,983
It's like the same
skill that you have

413
00:14:41,018 --> 00:14:42,191
to develop to be able to be

414
00:14:42,226 --> 00:14:44,676
a really good guitar
player or something.

415
00:14:44,711 --> 00:14:46,195
On top of all that,

416
00:14:46,230 --> 00:14:48,128
every time you go into a corner,

417
00:14:48,163 --> 00:14:49,336
every time your brake,

418
00:14:49,371 --> 00:14:51,476
it's going to put so much stress

419
00:14:51,511 --> 00:14:53,478
on your neck and your shoulders,

420
00:14:53,513 --> 00:14:55,204
that it's going to
be basically trying

421
00:14:55,239 --> 00:14:56,240
to tear your head off.

422
00:14:56,274 --> 00:14:57,758
The G-forces that
they're pulling

423
00:14:57,793 --> 00:14:59,346
around the corner are
like four or five G

424
00:14:59,381 --> 00:15:00,485
just on their neck,

425
00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,316
which makes your
head and the helmet,

426
00:15:03,350 --> 00:15:05,697
which is pretty heavy if
you've ever put one on,

427
00:15:05,732 --> 00:15:09,080
weigh four or five times
what it normally would.

428
00:15:09,115 --> 00:15:11,911
And then, as you go
around the corner itself,

429
00:15:11,945 --> 00:15:13,774
the downforce threatens
to disembowel you,

430
00:15:13,809 --> 00:15:17,123
and you've gotta,
at the same time,

431
00:15:17,157 --> 00:15:18,365
brake and accelerate perfectly,

432
00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,298
and make all those
micro-adjustments perfectly,

433
00:15:20,333 --> 00:15:21,955
and be completely sure

434
00:15:21,990 --> 00:15:23,232
that you know what you're doing

435
00:15:23,267 --> 00:15:24,199
because you are
actually looking at

436
00:15:24,233 --> 00:15:26,270
that point three corners ahead.

437
00:15:32,310 --> 00:15:37,039
Lewis' GP2 year
was extraordinary.

438
00:15:37,074 --> 00:15:39,973
It's very rare that you see
someone hammer the field

439
00:15:40,008 --> 00:15:42,458
in terms of just looking like

440
00:15:42,493 --> 00:15:44,495
they must be from
another category,

441
00:15:44,529 --> 00:15:46,083
and have been
accidentally placed there,

442
00:15:46,117 --> 00:15:47,429
let alone as a rookie.

443
00:15:47,463 --> 00:15:49,327
- The absolute standout
moment of Lewis' time

444
00:15:49,362 --> 00:15:51,088
in GP2 came in Turkey.

445
00:15:51,122 --> 00:15:52,744
And it was the second
race of the weekend there,

446
00:15:52,779 --> 00:15:55,092
when he was in a really
tight championship fight

447
00:15:55,126 --> 00:15:56,438
with Nelson Piquet Jr.,

448
00:15:56,472 --> 00:15:58,060
who's someone who
had a lot of backing,

449
00:15:58,095 --> 00:15:59,648
had a famous name behind him,

450
00:15:59,682 --> 00:16:00,994
and looked like he was
destined for Formula One.

451
00:16:01,029 --> 00:16:02,962
But Lewis was trying
to prove to McLaren

452
00:16:02,996 --> 00:16:04,825
that he was also
worthy of that seat

453
00:16:04,860 --> 00:16:06,689
because it came at a time
when McLaren were working out

454
00:16:06,724 --> 00:16:08,312
who was going to
partner Fernando Alonso

455
00:16:08,346 --> 00:16:09,761
in the team the following year.

456
00:16:09,796 --> 00:16:11,625
And he went into this
second race in Turkey

457
00:16:11,660 --> 00:16:13,179
and Lewis spun, very early on,

458
00:16:13,213 --> 00:16:14,594
and dropped to the
back of the field.

459
00:16:14,628 --> 00:16:16,596
- [Announcer] Taking a look
at what happened to Hamilton.

460
00:16:16,630 --> 00:16:18,149
Just loses it over the curb.

461
00:16:18,184 --> 00:16:19,668
- Nelson Piquet Jr.
was up at the front

462
00:16:19,702 --> 00:16:21,704
and it looked like it was
all slipping away from him.

463
00:16:21,739 --> 00:16:23,534
And he produced a
brilliant fightback drive

464
00:16:23,568 --> 00:16:24,466
to finish second,

465
00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:26,261
overtook Piquet in the process,

466
00:16:26,295 --> 00:16:28,815
and that really made everyone
sit up and take notice

467
00:16:28,849 --> 00:16:30,161
that this guy was special.

468
00:16:30,196 --> 00:16:31,438
- [Announcer] Still 21 laps for

469
00:16:31,473 --> 00:16:34,338
a classic Hamilton fight
back through the field.

470
00:16:34,372 --> 00:16:35,856
Hamilton's on fire here.

471
00:16:35,891 --> 00:16:37,375
Look at him, he's
overtaking car after car.

472
00:16:37,410 --> 00:16:38,894
He's going to try something.

473
00:16:38,928 --> 00:16:40,482
You knows he's going
to try something.

474
00:16:40,516 --> 00:16:41,345
And here we go!

475
00:16:41,379 --> 00:16:43,002
Down the inside of Lopez,

476
00:16:43,036 --> 00:16:44,279
he's up to eighth now

477
00:16:44,313 --> 00:16:45,556
and flying!

478
00:16:45,590 --> 00:16:46,833
Can he let him through?

479
00:16:46,867 --> 00:16:48,352
Hamilton is through,
into third place

480
00:16:48,386 --> 00:16:50,975
and Glock is going
to have to give away!

481
00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:51,734
Is Hamil...

482
00:16:51,769 --> 00:16:52,528
Oh, he is going to try!

483
00:16:52,563 --> 00:16:54,116
And for second place,

484
00:16:54,151 --> 00:16:57,223
that was an absolutely
spellbinding performance

485
00:16:57,257 --> 00:16:58,638
by Lewis Hamilton.

486
00:16:58,672 --> 00:17:00,122
- In a sense, you could
think he was driving angry

487
00:17:00,157 --> 00:17:02,504
because he'd made a mistake
earlier on and spun,

488
00:17:02,538 --> 00:17:03,539
but they're in spec cars.

489
00:17:03,574 --> 00:17:05,507
GP2 is the same
car for everybody.

490
00:17:05,541 --> 00:17:06,646
There's different
ways you can set it up

491
00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,199
but they've got
the same machinery,

492
00:17:08,234 --> 00:17:09,890
so it's driver talent that's
going to shine through,

493
00:17:09,925 --> 00:17:11,306
and what he showed was that

494
00:17:11,340 --> 00:17:14,240
he had so much more talent
on that day, in that car,

495
00:17:14,274 --> 00:17:15,482
than anybody else in the field.

496
00:17:15,517 --> 00:17:16,380
That he could climb through

497
00:17:16,414 --> 00:17:18,002
and overtake so many others.

498
00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:19,314
Showed brilliant racecraft,

499
00:17:19,348 --> 00:17:21,488
Showed a cool head
after his early mistake,

500
00:17:21,523 --> 00:17:23,145
and he got the
absolute best result

501
00:17:23,180 --> 00:17:24,802
he could have after
slipping back.

502
00:17:26,907 --> 00:17:29,496
- [Interviewer] Lewis, a
year ago, you were racing

503
00:17:29,531 --> 00:17:31,153
at Silverstone in Formula Two.

504
00:17:31,188 --> 00:17:33,431
Now, you're a favorite to
win your home Grand Prix.

505
00:17:33,466 --> 00:17:34,605
I mean, this is beyond dreaming,

506
00:17:34,639 --> 00:17:36,227
isn't it?
- It is, it is.

507
00:17:36,262 --> 00:17:39,851
And I'm just overwhelmed
to even be in Formula One

508
00:17:39,886 --> 00:17:41,060
and to be in the team that

509
00:17:41,094 --> 00:17:42,440
I've always dreamed
of being with.

510
00:17:42,475 --> 00:17:44,442
But to come to my
home Grand Prix,

511
00:17:44,477 --> 00:17:46,375
leading the world
championship in my first year,

512
00:17:46,410 --> 00:17:48,757
this is way beyond anything
I could have ever imagined

513
00:17:48,791 --> 00:17:51,725
or way beyond my ambitions.

514
00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,245
But I'm not going
to be disappointed

515
00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:55,350
if I don't win the championship,

516
00:17:55,384 --> 00:17:57,524
I was just hoping
to do a good job.

517
00:17:57,559 --> 00:18:01,390
So I'm sure if I just continue
doing the job I am doing,

518
00:18:01,425 --> 00:18:02,909
then we'll have to wait and see

519
00:18:02,943 --> 00:18:04,290
what happens at the end.

520
00:18:05,601 --> 00:18:08,259
- They all thought, "Well,
Hamilton's going to come in

521
00:18:08,294 --> 00:18:09,571
"as a rookie,

522
00:18:09,605 --> 00:18:11,124
"he's not going
to do very well.."

523
00:18:11,159 --> 00:18:13,920
Actually he usurped
and over-performed
against his teammate.

524
00:18:13,954 --> 00:18:15,611
This was a two-time
world champion

525
00:18:15,646 --> 00:18:18,752
just come out of driving
for Renault, 2005, 2006.

526
00:18:18,787 --> 00:18:20,616
The man who had taken over
from Michael Schumacher,

527
00:18:20,651 --> 00:18:21,928
the great Spaniard,

528
00:18:21,962 --> 00:18:23,481
the man who was going
to dominate Formula One

529
00:18:23,516 --> 00:18:24,448
for the next few years.

530
00:18:24,482 --> 00:18:25,725
And yet, who should
have won the title

531
00:18:25,759 --> 00:18:26,726
when they went head-to-head

532
00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:27,554
in the same machinery?

533
00:18:27,589 --> 00:18:30,178
Lewis Hamilton in 2007.

534
00:18:30,212 --> 00:18:32,456
- Something Ferrari, who
were McLaren's main rival,

535
00:18:32,490 --> 00:18:33,940
have always done
very well is pick

536
00:18:33,974 --> 00:18:35,528
a number one driver;

537
00:18:35,562 --> 00:18:37,357
a driver that they put
the most resource behind,

538
00:18:37,392 --> 00:18:38,393
that they get the other driver

539
00:18:38,427 --> 00:18:40,533
to help and make
sure that they get

540
00:18:40,567 --> 00:18:43,467
the most points possible to
win the driver's championship.

541
00:18:43,501 --> 00:18:45,952
What McLaren didn't do
in 2007, it's the same.

542
00:18:45,986 --> 00:18:47,816
They let both
drivers fight it out.

543
00:18:47,850 --> 00:18:49,783
- Alonso was in no way ready

544
00:18:49,818 --> 00:18:51,060
for how fast Hamilton was,

545
00:18:51,095 --> 00:18:54,788
and it had seemed
clear when Alonso went

546
00:18:54,823 --> 00:18:56,445
to McLaren that year,

547
00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:57,895
that he was taking
the championship

548
00:18:57,929 --> 00:18:59,379
with rookie support,

549
00:18:59,414 --> 00:19:01,588
which turned into
really, really ugly games

550
00:19:01,623 --> 00:19:03,487
between the pair of them.

551
00:19:03,521 --> 00:19:05,247
- So that meant there was
tension early on anyway,

552
00:19:05,282 --> 00:19:06,490
and as the season progressed

553
00:19:06,524 --> 00:19:07,422
and Hamilton performed well,

554
00:19:07,456 --> 00:19:09,320
and was in the
drivers championship,

555
00:19:09,355 --> 00:19:10,942
Alonso got more and more
frustrated with that,

556
00:19:10,977 --> 00:19:12,599
which meant Hamilton
also fought back

557
00:19:12,634 --> 00:19:14,601
because Alonzo was
giving him a hard time.

558
00:19:14,636 --> 00:19:16,016
And when it came to Hungary,

559
00:19:16,051 --> 00:19:17,190
there was a point in qualifying

560
00:19:17,225 --> 00:19:18,398
where Hamilton
disobeyed a team order

561
00:19:18,433 --> 00:19:19,917
that would have helped Alonso.

562
00:19:19,951 --> 00:19:21,021
It would have only been fair,

563
00:19:21,056 --> 00:19:22,091
it's the way the
team wanted to run,

564
00:19:22,126 --> 00:19:23,403
but Hamilton disobeyed the order

565
00:19:23,438 --> 00:19:25,302
to try and improve
his own position.

566
00:19:25,336 --> 00:19:26,648
And then, Alonso took matters

567
00:19:26,682 --> 00:19:28,270
into his own hands when they
both came into the pitch

568
00:19:28,305 --> 00:19:30,652
to change tires before their
final qualifying attempt.

569
00:19:30,686 --> 00:19:32,550
And when Alonso was told
to leave the pit lane,

570
00:19:32,585 --> 00:19:33,827
he didn't.

571
00:19:33,862 --> 00:19:35,174
He waited because he knew
it would hold Hamilton up.

572
00:19:35,208 --> 00:19:36,209
I mean, Hamilton couldn't go out

573
00:19:36,244 --> 00:19:37,486
and try and qualify.

574
00:19:37,521 --> 00:19:38,729
It actually earned
along to a penalty,

575
00:19:38,763 --> 00:19:40,558
but it just showed that
the relationship was

576
00:19:40,593 --> 00:19:42,698
really falling apart
within the team.

577
00:19:46,875 --> 00:19:49,153
- And usually, it
would be you trying

578
00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:50,499
to block a rival team,

579
00:19:50,534 --> 00:19:51,845
not your teammate.

580
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,537
- And in the end, they
finished level on points,

581
00:19:53,571 --> 00:19:55,573
and one point behind
the eventual champion,

582
00:19:55,608 --> 00:19:56,540
who was Kimi Raäikkoönen.

583
00:19:56,574 --> 00:19:58,404
But if just one driver
had had priority

584
00:19:58,438 --> 00:19:59,405
at a different race,

585
00:19:59,439 --> 00:20:00,509
they'd scored the extra points

586
00:20:00,544 --> 00:20:01,821
they needed to win
the championship.

587
00:20:01,855 --> 00:20:03,236
So what you need is
the teams backing

588
00:20:03,271 --> 00:20:04,513
a little bit as well

589
00:20:04,548 --> 00:20:05,928
when it comes down to
such a tight fight.

590
00:20:10,381 --> 00:20:12,211
Lewis showed
brilliant consistency

591
00:20:12,245 --> 00:20:13,660
in his rookie season
in Formula One.

592
00:20:13,695 --> 00:20:15,179
He was on the podium or winning

593
00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:17,492
for a number of races
from the word go.

594
00:20:17,526 --> 00:20:18,700
He finally got his
first win in Canada,

595
00:20:18,734 --> 00:20:20,253
but he backed up,
again, with another one

596
00:20:20,288 --> 00:20:21,772
in the United States,

597
00:20:21,806 --> 00:20:23,670
and he was leading
the championship with
two rounds to go.

598
00:20:23,705 --> 00:20:25,534
And it had definitely
been his consistency

599
00:20:25,569 --> 00:20:26,846
that had got him there.

600
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,399
He'd had one race
when he finished

601
00:20:28,434 --> 00:20:29,745
outside the points because
of a crash in Germany.

602
00:20:29,780 --> 00:20:30,677
But apart from that,

603
00:20:30,712 --> 00:20:32,231
he'd always been scoring highly.

604
00:20:34,129 --> 00:20:37,166
All Hamilton had to do at
the Chinese Grand Prix,

605
00:20:37,201 --> 00:20:38,651
which was the penultimate
race of the season,

606
00:20:38,685 --> 00:20:41,550
was finish close to his
teammate, Fernando Alonso,

607
00:20:41,585 --> 00:20:43,483
and not be beaten by
more than six points

608
00:20:43,518 --> 00:20:44,657
by Kimi Raäikkoönen,

609
00:20:44,691 --> 00:20:46,486
who was the rank
outsider at this stage.

610
00:20:46,521 --> 00:20:48,695
Raäikkoönen wasn't the driver
they were worried about.

611
00:20:48,730 --> 00:20:49,593
It was the inter-team battle

612
00:20:49,627 --> 00:20:50,594
between Alonso and Hamilton.

613
00:20:50,628 --> 00:20:52,665
So he was just
having to make sure

614
00:20:52,699 --> 00:20:54,908
that he was either
close to or beat Alonso,

615
00:20:54,943 --> 00:20:56,945
and he'd be world champion
with a race to spare.

616
00:20:56,979 --> 00:20:59,534
- [Announcer] As long as
Alonso finishes behind him,

617
00:20:59,568 --> 00:21:01,536
he's still going to
be the world champion.

618
00:21:01,570 --> 00:21:02,606
- Lewis put the car on poll,

619
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,297
did a great job in qualifying,

620
00:21:04,332 --> 00:21:06,195
and was leading the first
part of the race in the wet,

621
00:21:06,230 --> 00:21:07,749
and everything looked perfect,

622
00:21:07,783 --> 00:21:09,198
like he was going to
win the championship.

623
00:21:09,233 --> 00:21:11,684
- [Announcer] A picture
then of Hamilton,

624
00:21:11,718 --> 00:21:12,616
who just looks...

625
00:21:12,650 --> 00:21:13,548
I don't know if its a
piece of paper stuck

626
00:21:13,582 --> 00:21:14,514
in his right rear,

627
00:21:14,549 --> 00:21:15,722
or if its down to the canvas.

628
00:21:15,757 --> 00:21:18,311
Hamilton getting very, very wide

629
00:21:18,346 --> 00:21:20,037
in turns one and two.

630
00:21:20,071 --> 00:21:21,625
- But then, McLaren kept him out

631
00:21:21,659 --> 00:21:22,591
as a track was drying,

632
00:21:22,626 --> 00:21:24,110
and his tires started
to get worn out.

633
00:21:24,144 --> 00:21:25,249
And he went off at one point,

634
00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:26,526
and Kimi Raäikkoönen overtook him,

635
00:21:26,561 --> 00:21:27,700
but that still wasn't a problem,

636
00:21:27,734 --> 00:21:29,149
where Raäikkoönen him
was going to finish.

637
00:21:29,184 --> 00:21:30,737
If Raäikkoönen won and
Hamilton was second,

638
00:21:30,772 --> 00:21:33,568
Hamilton would still
be world champion.

639
00:21:33,602 --> 00:21:34,362
- [Announcer] He's
gotta come in.

640
00:21:34,396 --> 00:21:36,225
I think he's got a...

641
00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:38,366
I think he's got
some delamination

642
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,712
on that right rear tire.

643
00:21:39,746 --> 00:21:41,921
- But then McLaren kept
them out longer and longer,

644
00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:43,232
until they finally
brought him in

645
00:21:43,267 --> 00:21:44,648
for his pit stop to
put on dry tires.

646
00:21:44,682 --> 00:21:46,615
And by then, his wets
were so worn out,

647
00:21:46,650 --> 00:21:47,823
they had no grip at all,

648
00:21:47,858 --> 00:21:49,618
and he just went off the
track coming into the pit lane

649
00:21:49,653 --> 00:21:50,585
and couldn't get going again,

650
00:21:50,619 --> 00:21:52,345
so he retired from the position

651
00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:54,589
that would have
given him the title.

652
00:21:54,623 --> 00:21:55,624
- [Announcer] Turned
into the picture.

653
00:21:55,659 --> 00:21:56,660
Anyway, here comes
Lewis Hamilton!

654
00:21:56,694 --> 00:21:57,661
He goes straight off

655
00:21:57,695 --> 00:21:58,627
into a gravel check.

656
00:21:58,662 --> 00:22:00,284
Can he keep the wheels spinning?

657
00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:01,906
Can he get some momentum going?

658
00:22:01,941 --> 00:22:03,287
No, he can't!

659
00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:04,737
It's all going to
get away from him.

660
00:22:04,771 --> 00:22:06,773
- Lewis would have been the
first rookie world champion

661
00:22:06,808 --> 00:22:08,637
and it looked right
within his hands.

662
00:22:08,672 --> 00:22:09,914
- There is nothing, as a driver,

663
00:22:09,949 --> 00:22:12,572
that you can do to take away

664
00:22:12,607 --> 00:22:15,679
the curse that sometimes
comes to a car.

665
00:22:15,713 --> 00:22:18,095
- Hamilton matched the
record for the most wins

666
00:22:18,129 --> 00:22:19,614
in a rookie season with four,

667
00:22:19,648 --> 00:22:20,787
I think Jacques Villeneuve
is the other driver

668
00:22:20,822 --> 00:22:22,375
that has that one.

669
00:22:22,410 --> 00:22:24,170
But he also had the most
consecutive podium finishes

670
00:22:24,204 --> 00:22:26,103
from the first
race of any rookie.

671
00:22:26,137 --> 00:22:27,000
And at the end of it,

672
00:22:27,035 --> 00:22:27,967
he had the highest points total

673
00:22:28,001 --> 00:22:29,624
that any rookie would have had.

674
00:22:29,658 --> 00:22:31,833
Sadly, it just wasn't the
championship winning one.

675
00:22:33,628 --> 00:22:35,423
- It was a great year.

676
00:22:35,457 --> 00:22:39,288
I couldn't really have asked
for more, if I'm honest.

677
00:22:39,323 --> 00:22:40,531
Just because...

678
00:22:40,566 --> 00:22:42,878
I went into the last
race and I just said,

679
00:22:42,913 --> 00:22:44,466
"Whatever happens in this race,

680
00:22:44,501 --> 00:22:47,366
"I'll be happy
because I've, by far,

681
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,954
"exceeded my expectations
and everyone else's."

682
00:22:49,989 --> 00:22:52,440
And I think I've put
my feet comfortably

683
00:22:52,474 --> 00:22:53,510
into Formula One,

684
00:22:53,544 --> 00:22:54,787
everyone knows who I am.

685
00:22:54,821 --> 00:22:56,685
And I'm only 22, so
I've got plenty of time.

686
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,135
And as you know,

687
00:22:58,169 --> 00:22:59,826
I've got the ability and I know,

688
00:22:59,861 --> 00:23:01,621
so just with a little
bit more hard work,

689
00:23:01,656 --> 00:23:02,519
we'll be able to do it.

690
00:23:02,553 --> 00:23:04,313
To come from the box trailer,

691
00:23:04,348 --> 00:23:06,074
to now sitting in Formula One,

692
00:23:06,108 --> 00:23:07,731
and to have people noticing me

693
00:23:07,765 --> 00:23:12,736
and to have my name all
over Santander shops,

694
00:23:13,702 --> 00:23:15,877
it's just really weird.

695
00:23:15,911 --> 00:23:17,913
We just sat there and
went, "What a year.

696
00:23:17,948 --> 00:23:20,019
"Can you believe it this year?

697
00:23:20,053 --> 00:23:21,261
"This time, last year,

698
00:23:21,296 --> 00:23:22,573
"all those years ago,

699
00:23:22,608 --> 00:23:25,818
"we were all sitting in
the back of a trailer,

700
00:23:25,852 --> 00:23:27,820
"in a little cavalier
and everything."

701
00:23:27,854 --> 00:23:30,443
We couldn't ever have imagined
being in here in this year,

702
00:23:30,478 --> 00:23:31,513
so you cannot complain.

703
00:23:31,548 --> 00:23:32,756
Even if I finished last,

704
00:23:32,790 --> 00:23:34,482
the fact that I
was able to compete

705
00:23:34,516 --> 00:23:37,001
in Formula One World
Championship is just...

706
00:23:37,036 --> 00:23:38,106
Not many people get to do that,

707
00:23:38,140 --> 00:23:39,625
so just pretty grateful.

708
00:23:40,902 --> 00:23:42,869
Me and Fernando, we get on well,

709
00:23:42,904 --> 00:23:44,837
and we try to tell people that

710
00:23:44,871 --> 00:23:45,907
but they just didn't believe it.

711
00:23:45,941 --> 00:23:47,115
They like to write
their own things.

712
00:23:49,013 --> 00:23:52,120
The media, it was just trying
to put spins on everything,

713
00:23:52,154 --> 00:23:54,743
which is a bit of
a shame, really

714
00:23:54,778 --> 00:23:55,986
because they don't
really give you

715
00:23:56,020 --> 00:23:57,781
a true feeling of
what's going on.

716
00:23:57,815 --> 00:23:59,127
And obviously, there was loads

717
00:23:59,161 --> 00:24:00,439
of different things
sparking about,

718
00:24:00,473 --> 00:24:04,166
but the aim was to
beat him, I did.

719
00:24:04,201 --> 00:24:05,823
Beat a two-time world champion.

720
00:24:05,858 --> 00:24:07,756
I mean, to do that
in your first year,

721
00:24:08,585 --> 00:24:09,965
I didn't expect that for sure.

722
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,588
But I get on really
well with him,

723
00:24:11,622 --> 00:24:12,934
so I think for next year,

724
00:24:12,968 --> 00:24:14,729
we know what to expect.

725
00:24:14,763 --> 00:24:17,490
And if we are working together,

726
00:24:17,525 --> 00:24:18,802
I'm sure we'll do a better job.

727
00:24:18,836 --> 00:24:20,769
- After such an
impressive rookie season,

728
00:24:20,804 --> 00:24:23,323
the expectations were so
high on Hamilton in 2008.

729
00:24:23,358 --> 00:24:24,808
McLaren were a
race-winning team,

730
00:24:24,842 --> 00:24:26,637
should have been a
championship winning team.

731
00:24:26,672 --> 00:24:27,914
Fernando Alonso had left,

732
00:24:27,949 --> 00:24:30,192
he'd gone back to Renault
because of the way

733
00:24:30,227 --> 00:24:31,953
the relationship had
broken down completely,

734
00:24:31,987 --> 00:24:33,575
McLaren allowed him to leave.

735
00:24:33,610 --> 00:24:35,266
So Hamilton looked like he was
going to be the lead driver,

736
00:24:35,301 --> 00:24:36,509
and he clearly had the potential

737
00:24:36,544 --> 00:24:38,442
to lead that team for
a number of years.

738
00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:40,306
So the future was
looking very bright

739
00:24:40,340 --> 00:24:41,825
for both him and the team,

740
00:24:41,859 --> 00:24:44,103
and with a car that was capable
of winning the championship.

741
00:24:44,137 --> 00:24:45,967
I think Lewis probably
went into that season

742
00:24:46,001 --> 00:24:47,278
as the title favorite.

743
00:24:47,313 --> 00:24:49,591
- You'll notice lot of drivers
who are successful tend

744
00:24:49,626 --> 00:24:50,903
to stick with the same teams.

745
00:24:50,937 --> 00:24:52,249
There's very rarely drivers

746
00:24:52,283 --> 00:24:54,769
who fall out with their teams
or move around very much,

747
00:24:54,803 --> 00:24:56,840
particularly in the modern era

748
00:24:56,874 --> 00:24:58,945
because it is so,
so complicated.

749
00:25:08,127 --> 00:25:09,197
- There is a lot of pressure.

750
00:25:09,231 --> 00:25:10,025
I'm only 23.

751
00:25:10,854 --> 00:25:12,027
I'm still very young.

752
00:25:12,062 --> 00:25:13,581
It's my second
year in Formula One

753
00:25:13,615 --> 00:25:17,999
and I've got a team of
800-1,000 people behind me,

754
00:25:18,862 --> 00:25:20,001
making sure that my car is

755
00:25:20,035 --> 00:25:21,347
the quickest one out there,

756
00:25:21,381 --> 00:25:23,176
and I've got to go out
there and do the job.

757
00:25:23,211 --> 00:25:24,695
And so, there is
a lot of pressure,

758
00:25:24,730 --> 00:25:27,767
but I think I've been
building up to it for years,

759
00:25:27,802 --> 00:25:31,771
so I do feel there's more
pressure coming from myself

760
00:25:31,806 --> 00:25:33,497
than actually outside.

761
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:35,775
I have to pinch myself
near enough every day,

762
00:25:35,810 --> 00:25:37,984
especially when
I'm at the races,

763
00:25:38,019 --> 00:25:39,054
because I'm in the garage

764
00:25:39,089 --> 00:25:40,366
and I've got all these
people working around,

765
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:41,574
and working for me,

766
00:25:41,609 --> 00:25:42,644
making sure my car's there.

767
00:25:42,679 --> 00:25:43,956
And I'm thinking,

768
00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:46,786
"I remember being
there as a teenager,

769
00:25:46,821 --> 00:25:48,650
"watching Kimi driving,

770
00:25:48,685 --> 00:25:49,962
"or watching Mika drive,

771
00:25:49,996 --> 00:25:51,619
"and watching David
Coulthard drive."

772
00:25:51,653 --> 00:25:55,968
And it's very surreal
that I'm there now,

773
00:25:56,002 --> 00:25:57,832
and I'm the man for them.

774
00:25:57,866 --> 00:25:59,040
The great thing is I've got

775
00:25:59,074 --> 00:26:00,593
a great relationship
with the team,

776
00:26:00,628 --> 00:26:03,147
so it's very much a
family environment for me.

777
00:26:03,182 --> 00:26:05,874
And I thoroughly...

778
00:26:05,909 --> 00:26:08,567
I'm McLaren through and through,

779
00:26:08,601 --> 00:26:09,982
McLaren-Mercedes
through and through.

780
00:26:10,016 --> 00:26:12,260
I'm a lot wiser now
than I was last year.

781
00:26:12,294 --> 00:26:13,848
I think last year,
I felt perhaps...

782
00:26:13,882 --> 00:26:15,159
If I look back,

783
00:26:15,194 --> 00:26:16,436
I feel like I was
a kid last year.

784
00:26:16,471 --> 00:26:18,093
Not really knowing
what to expect.

785
00:26:18,128 --> 00:26:20,820
This year, I'm managing
my life a lot better,

786
00:26:20,855 --> 00:26:22,926
but I've learned so
much about the car

787
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,756
and about rising
above the difficulties

788
00:26:25,791 --> 00:26:26,895
you come across.

789
00:26:26,930 --> 00:26:28,069
And I think that's the key.

790
00:26:28,103 --> 00:26:29,622
I've always said,
"Rise above it" is one

791
00:26:29,657 --> 00:26:30,968
of my favorite quotes.

792
00:26:32,452 --> 00:26:34,938
I mean, I had my first
season of Formula One

793
00:26:34,972 --> 00:26:36,560
and I came second by one point

794
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:37,699
to Kimi Raäikkoönen,

795
00:26:37,734 --> 00:26:39,252
who's been racing for six or
seven years in Formula One.

796
00:26:39,287 --> 00:26:42,048
And I beat the world champion,

797
00:26:42,083 --> 00:26:43,463
the two time world champion.

798
00:26:43,498 --> 00:26:45,742
So if you look, you got to
take the positives from it

799
00:26:45,776 --> 00:26:47,053
and move on.

800
00:26:47,088 --> 00:26:48,089
It was a great season,

801
00:26:49,918 --> 00:26:52,024
way better than
anyone ever expected.

802
00:26:52,058 --> 00:26:54,578
And I'm now in my second season,

803
00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:56,753
I've got a much better
feel for who I am

804
00:26:56,787 --> 00:26:58,340
and what I've got to do,

805
00:26:58,375 --> 00:26:59,997
and my confidence
is higher than ever.

806
00:27:00,032 --> 00:27:01,723
So it's still going
to be very tough,

807
00:27:01,758 --> 00:27:02,828
every year is going to be tough,

808
00:27:02,862 --> 00:27:05,037
but I feel I can do a
better job this year.

809
00:27:09,904 --> 00:27:12,078
- The standout highlight
for 2008 has to be

810
00:27:12,113 --> 00:27:13,355
the season finale.

811
00:27:13,390 --> 00:27:15,599
Brazil was full of such
drama and jeopardy,

812
00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:17,290
and it all came down
to the final corner

813
00:27:17,325 --> 00:27:19,258
on the final lap
of the final race

814
00:27:19,292 --> 00:27:20,880
to find out who was
the world champion,

815
00:27:20,915 --> 00:27:23,055
and the contrasting
emotions were huge.

816
00:27:23,089 --> 00:27:24,884
One of the things that
Hamilton would have learned

817
00:27:24,919 --> 00:27:26,541
from 2008 is just the fact

818
00:27:26,575 --> 00:27:28,647
that you only need to get
the result that matters.

819
00:27:28,681 --> 00:27:29,889
There was a point in 2007,

820
00:27:29,924 --> 00:27:31,132
again, in Brazil,

821
00:27:31,166 --> 00:27:32,478
where he didn't
need to win the race

822
00:27:32,512 --> 00:27:33,893
to win the championship,

823
00:27:33,928 --> 00:27:35,723
like it had been in China
when he slid off the road.

824
00:27:35,757 --> 00:27:37,138
All he needed was
a lesser result,

825
00:27:37,172 --> 00:27:38,933
compared to what other
drivers needed to do.

826
00:27:38,967 --> 00:27:40,210
But Hamilton's style early on,

827
00:27:40,244 --> 00:27:42,246
and a bit McLaren
supporting him too,

828
00:27:42,281 --> 00:27:43,765
was to go all out
for the best result,

829
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:44,732
go for the win.

830
00:27:44,766 --> 00:27:45,974
That's the best
way to wrap it up.

831
00:27:46,009 --> 00:27:47,079
And as he's matured,

832
00:27:47,113 --> 00:27:48,632
he's kind of learned
that doesn't matter.

833
00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:50,116
There's some days
where second, third,

834
00:27:50,151 --> 00:27:51,290
fourth, even fifth,

835
00:27:51,324 --> 00:27:52,498
is the best you can do,

836
00:27:52,532 --> 00:27:53,602
but that might be all you need

837
00:27:53,637 --> 00:27:54,500
when you add it all together

838
00:27:54,534 --> 00:27:55,777
at the end of the season.

839
00:27:55,812 --> 00:27:57,158
At the time that Felipe
Massa crossed the line

840
00:27:57,192 --> 00:27:58,331
to win the race,

841
00:27:58,366 --> 00:27:59,781
at his home race,

842
00:27:59,816 --> 00:28:01,162
it looked like he
was world champion.

843
00:28:01,196 --> 00:28:03,026
He was in a position that
would give him the title

844
00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:04,683
and Lewis Hamilton
was in a position

845
00:28:04,717 --> 00:28:06,270
that meant he wasn't going
to win the championship,

846
00:28:06,305 --> 00:28:07,686
but Hamilton then
gained one place

847
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:08,514
at the final corner,

848
00:28:08,548 --> 00:28:09,688
overtook Timo Glock,

849
00:28:09,722 --> 00:28:11,137
who was struggling in the rain,

850
00:28:11,172 --> 00:28:12,518
and came through
to get the position

851
00:28:12,552 --> 00:28:14,106
he needed to take
the championship.

852
00:28:14,140 --> 00:28:15,797
To have two drivers,
technically, be world champion

853
00:28:15,832 --> 00:28:17,109
within a matter of seconds,

854
00:28:17,143 --> 00:28:18,006
for everything to
have come down,

855
00:28:18,041 --> 00:28:19,111
after such a long season,

856
00:28:19,145 --> 00:28:20,699
to that final corner,

857
00:28:20,733 --> 00:28:22,045
I just don't think you
can beat drama like that.

858
00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:24,806
- What we try to do is we
try to remain dignified

859
00:28:26,014 --> 00:28:29,880
and set an example,
I suppose, for others

860
00:28:29,915 --> 00:28:32,020
who wants to follow the sport,

861
00:28:32,055 --> 00:28:34,229
'cause not everybody that
follows Formula One wants

862
00:28:34,264 --> 00:28:35,886
to be in Formula One.

863
00:28:35,921 --> 00:28:36,991
Maybe they're just looking
for inspirational figures,

864
00:28:37,025 --> 00:28:39,027
people who have struggled hard

865
00:28:39,062 --> 00:28:41,202
to make it to the
pinnacle of their sport

866
00:28:41,236 --> 00:28:43,169
and set an example,

867
00:28:43,204 --> 00:28:44,584
and we want to set an example.

868
00:28:47,449 --> 00:28:50,694
[audience applauding]

869
00:29:03,017 --> 00:29:04,328
- A sensational year.

870
00:29:04,363 --> 00:29:05,778
I mean, for me, to win a
world championship, for one,

871
00:29:05,813 --> 00:29:09,195
is, as I've always said,
as a dream of mine.

872
00:29:12,889 --> 00:29:15,581
[crowd cheering]

873
00:29:25,246 --> 00:29:27,179
It's pretty awesome for
me to be standing here,

874
00:29:27,213 --> 00:29:28,249
seeing all these trophies

875
00:29:28,283 --> 00:29:31,804
and my heart's still racing.

876
00:29:31,839 --> 00:29:33,357
I haven't really...

877
00:29:33,392 --> 00:29:35,083
It hasn't really hit home yet.

878
00:29:35,118 --> 00:29:36,533
And it's quite unreal, really,

879
00:29:36,567 --> 00:29:38,638
because you think
about the whole story

880
00:29:38,673 --> 00:29:41,055
of me meeting Ron when I was 10,

881
00:29:41,089 --> 00:29:43,126
I mean, the first time I came

882
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,128
to McLaren, the
old headquarters,

883
00:29:45,162 --> 00:29:48,545
the first time I saw
my Formula One car,

884
00:29:48,579 --> 00:29:50,098
my first test,

885
00:29:50,133 --> 00:29:54,447
the opportunity I had back
at Silverstone in 2006,

886
00:29:54,482 --> 00:29:56,449
and just the whole
journey we've done.

887
00:29:56,484 --> 00:29:58,106
And I just wanna...

888
00:29:58,141 --> 00:29:59,142
I'm standing here today to say

889
00:29:59,176 --> 00:30:00,764
a big thank you to all of you,

890
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:02,939
and we have proved to everyone
that we are the best team,

891
00:30:02,973 --> 00:30:04,561
the car is the most reliable.

892
00:30:04,595 --> 00:30:06,839
And we've just been put under

893
00:30:06,874 --> 00:30:09,773
so much pressure by whoever;

894
00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:11,154
the fans, the media,

895
00:30:11,188 --> 00:30:14,157
just the championship in itself,

896
00:30:14,191 --> 00:30:16,228
and we've always had to
become bigger and better,

897
00:30:16,262 --> 00:30:17,781
and we've done that as a team.

898
00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:19,058
We stuck together.

899
00:30:19,093 --> 00:30:21,302
We've lost together
and we've won together,

900
00:30:21,336 --> 00:30:24,339
and a really big one this week.

901
00:30:24,374 --> 00:30:27,101
We are the world
champions and...

902
00:30:27,135 --> 00:30:29,689
[indistinct]

903
00:30:31,899 --> 00:30:33,072
- I'm here now

904
00:30:33,107 --> 00:30:34,108
and I've set the tone.

905
00:30:34,142 --> 00:30:35,488
Everyone knows what I can do.

906
00:30:35,523 --> 00:30:39,251
So staying here, it doesn't
seem to be such a problem

907
00:30:39,285 --> 00:30:41,080
but I still have to
keep on performing.

908
00:30:41,115 --> 00:30:42,599
I still need to be fit.

909
00:30:42,633 --> 00:30:43,600
So over the years,

910
00:30:43,634 --> 00:30:44,843
as I get older and older,

911
00:30:44,877 --> 00:30:45,947
I need to keep working
harder and harder

912
00:30:45,982 --> 00:30:47,638
to make sure I'm still on top.

913
00:30:47,673 --> 00:30:49,433
But there's definitely no...

914
00:30:49,468 --> 00:30:50,469
There was no point [mumbles]

915
00:30:50,503 --> 00:30:52,160
"I'm here now, I can relax."

916
00:30:52,195 --> 00:30:53,127
It's not the case.

917
00:30:53,161 --> 00:30:54,162
I've got to keep on pushing

918
00:30:54,197 --> 00:30:55,715
because everyone's
doing the same thing.

919
00:30:59,305 --> 00:31:01,860
- Although the decline would not

920
00:31:04,241 --> 00:31:06,657
completely hit for
a few more years,

921
00:31:06,692 --> 00:31:09,660
they were going into a
phase where, operationally,

922
00:31:09,695 --> 00:31:12,146
they were having
significant problems.

923
00:31:12,180 --> 00:31:16,288
The effects of the
2007 scandal were

924
00:31:16,322 --> 00:31:20,119
really beginning to bite
in a major, major way.

925
00:31:20,154 --> 00:31:24,261
So the 2009 car had
not had the investment

926
00:31:24,296 --> 00:31:26,539
that would have been
put into it over 2008.

927
00:31:26,574 --> 00:31:29,611
And then, that rolled into 2010.

928
00:31:29,646 --> 00:31:32,166
- [Announcer] The reigning
Formula One world champion,

929
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:33,581
Lewis Hamilton.

930
00:31:35,134 --> 00:31:38,103
- The thing that you have to
say is impressive is Lewis won

931
00:31:38,137 --> 00:31:39,552
a race in every single year,

932
00:31:39,587 --> 00:31:43,867
even in cars that absolutely
were not race winners.

933
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:47,526
- [Announcer] The 2009
Formula One challenger

934
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:52,186
the Vodafone McLaren
Mercedes MP4-24.

935
00:32:01,747 --> 00:32:03,197
- [Interviewer] Lewis,
you've now seen a car

936
00:32:03,231 --> 00:32:04,715
with your name on it

937
00:32:04,750 --> 00:32:06,372
and the number one on the front.

938
00:32:06,407 --> 00:32:08,892
How did it feel when
you first saw that?

939
00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:09,858
- It feels great.

940
00:32:09,893 --> 00:32:11,205
It's a very proud moment.

941
00:32:11,239 --> 00:32:13,586
And it's just gonna be
cool having number one

942
00:32:13,621 --> 00:32:15,071
on a car for whole season.

943
00:32:15,105 --> 00:32:16,141
It's the best.

944
00:32:16,175 --> 00:32:17,452
- [Interviewer] People
have suggested that

945
00:32:17,487 --> 00:32:19,523
new regulations make
these cars a bit ugly.

946
00:32:19,558 --> 00:32:20,939
What do you think?

947
00:32:22,802 --> 00:32:24,287
- Well, regardless
if I thought that,

948
00:32:24,321 --> 00:32:25,426
I can't say that.

949
00:32:27,324 --> 00:32:28,947
- The thing about new
regulations is that

950
00:32:28,981 --> 00:32:31,639
they will almost always
shake up the field.

951
00:32:31,673 --> 00:32:34,055
- The problem McLaren had with
this regulation change was

952
00:32:34,090 --> 00:32:37,093
they're in such a tight
championship battle in 2008,

953
00:32:37,127 --> 00:32:39,233
that they kept developing
their 2008 car.

954
00:32:39,267 --> 00:32:40,751
They kept putting a
resource behind that

955
00:32:40,786 --> 00:32:42,443
to make sure they won
that championship.

956
00:32:42,477 --> 00:32:45,066
Partly, I think, because
they'd missed out in 2007,

957
00:32:45,101 --> 00:32:45,998
they weren't willing to let

958
00:32:46,033 --> 00:32:47,275
it get away from them again,

959
00:32:47,310 --> 00:32:48,621
but that meant other teams

960
00:32:48,656 --> 00:32:51,210
that weren't in the battle spent
more time and money earlier

961
00:32:51,245 --> 00:32:52,832
on the new regulations

962
00:32:52,867 --> 00:32:54,420
and were able to get
a jump on McLaren.

963
00:32:54,455 --> 00:32:55,421
And it meant McLaren and Ferrari

964
00:32:55,456 --> 00:32:57,285
both started the season
away from the pace.

965
00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:00,633
For Hamilton, it was a
bit of a weird situation

966
00:33:00,668 --> 00:33:02,463
because the car was clearly
not competitive enough

967
00:33:02,497 --> 00:33:03,671
for him to win the championship,

968
00:33:03,705 --> 00:33:05,017
and that's frustrating
for driver.

969
00:33:05,052 --> 00:33:06,329
To be the world champion,

970
00:33:06,363 --> 00:33:07,433
to be on an upward trajectory,

971
00:33:07,468 --> 00:33:09,021
and certainly as
someone who's young

972
00:33:09,056 --> 00:33:10,264
and as highly rated as Lewis,

973
00:33:10,298 --> 00:33:12,438
but then not have the
machinery to perform.

974
00:33:12,473 --> 00:33:13,750
And all he'd ever known

975
00:33:13,784 --> 00:33:15,338
in Formula One was
having race winning cars.

976
00:33:15,372 --> 00:33:17,029
So he had to completely adapt

977
00:33:17,064 --> 00:33:18,410
his mindset, his approach,

978
00:33:18,444 --> 00:33:21,413
what constitutes a
good result in a race.

979
00:33:21,447 --> 00:33:23,001
And that was a bit
tough for him to do too

980
00:33:23,035 --> 00:33:24,105
at an early age.

981
00:33:24,140 --> 00:33:25,382
So a bit of a
combination of the fact

982
00:33:25,417 --> 00:33:26,728
that the car wasn't competitive

983
00:33:26,763 --> 00:33:28,730
and Hamilton was still
relatively inexperienced,

984
00:33:28,765 --> 00:33:30,249
even for a world champion,

985
00:33:30,284 --> 00:33:32,010
just meant it was a
tough season for him.

986
00:33:32,044 --> 00:33:34,702
- There is no driver
who is happy not to win.

987
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,327
- They got to a
point in Lewis' mind

988
00:33:39,362 --> 00:33:42,020
where he felt he needed to
break away from his father,

989
00:33:42,054 --> 00:33:44,505
that this relationship on a
personal level was being hurt

990
00:33:44,539 --> 00:33:45,437
by the fact that they still had

991
00:33:45,471 --> 00:33:46,576
this professional one,

992
00:33:46,610 --> 00:33:47,646
when you're in Formula One

993
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,303
at the top of the sport,

994
00:33:49,337 --> 00:33:50,131
it was so intense.

995
00:33:50,166 --> 00:33:51,236
So he felt that
it's better for them

996
00:33:51,270 --> 00:33:52,927
to go their separate ways,

997
00:33:52,961 --> 00:33:54,342
and I think that really
hurt Anthony at the time,

998
00:33:54,377 --> 00:33:56,103
because, obviously,
your son saying to you,

999
00:33:56,137 --> 00:33:58,070
"I don't need you anymore
in this capacity,"

1000
00:33:58,105 --> 00:33:59,589
or "I don't want you in
this capacity anymore,"

1001
00:33:59,623 --> 00:34:00,866
sounds really painful to hear,

1002
00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:02,592
but it was done with
a long-term view

1003
00:34:02,626 --> 00:34:04,076
that it would actually help them

1004
00:34:04,111 --> 00:34:05,353
with their personal
relationship.

1005
00:34:05,388 --> 00:34:06,596
And it did make
things a bit rough

1006
00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:08,184
for Lewis for a while.

1007
00:34:08,218 --> 00:34:10,255
He used to take things in
his personal life very hard

1008
00:34:10,289 --> 00:34:12,464
and it would sometimes
impact him on the track.

1009
00:34:12,498 --> 00:34:14,500
But once he got his
stuff settled off-track,

1010
00:34:14,535 --> 00:34:15,363
it meant he could perform better

1011
00:34:15,398 --> 00:34:16,951
on the track too.

1012
00:34:16,985 --> 00:34:19,816
- To, firstly, he 2008
Formula One World Champion,

1013
00:34:19,850 --> 00:34:21,024
Lewis Hamilton,

1014
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,957
and the reigning
Formula One champion,

1015
00:34:22,991 --> 00:34:24,648
Mr. Jenson Button.

1016
00:34:24,683 --> 00:34:27,824
- McLaren basically created
the British Dream Team in 2010

1017
00:34:27,858 --> 00:34:30,033
because Jenson Button
had not had it easy

1018
00:34:30,068 --> 00:34:31,793
in Formula One in his
earlier part of his career.

1019
00:34:31,828 --> 00:34:34,002
But then in 2009, it all
come together for him

1020
00:34:34,037 --> 00:34:35,280
and the team he was
with then, Brawn,

1021
00:34:35,314 --> 00:34:36,488
had the best car

1022
00:34:36,522 --> 00:34:37,834
and he won the
world championship.

1023
00:34:37,868 --> 00:34:39,318
Well, it meant you'd had
British World Champions

1024
00:34:39,353 --> 00:34:41,044
in 2008, in Lewis Hamilton,

1025
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:42,804
and 2009, in Jenson Button,

1026
00:34:42,839 --> 00:34:44,323
and then McLaren managed
to put them together

1027
00:34:44,358 --> 00:34:45,669
in the same team.

1028
00:34:45,704 --> 00:34:47,499
So you had the two most
recent world champions,

1029
00:34:47,533 --> 00:34:48,500
both being British,

1030
00:34:48,534 --> 00:34:50,467
both driving for a
British team together.

1031
00:34:50,502 --> 00:34:52,504
It was the perfect
scenario for fans.

1032
00:34:52,538 --> 00:34:53,850
- Welcome gentlemen.

1033
00:34:53,884 --> 00:34:56,404
It is that time
for you to unveil

1034
00:34:56,439 --> 00:34:58,475
your 2010 car.

1035
00:34:58,510 --> 00:35:01,720
- Well, I think there were
a lot of god awful people

1036
00:35:01,754 --> 00:35:04,309
who really wanted Jenson,

1037
00:35:04,343 --> 00:35:07,450
who they saw as more of
a proper British driver,

1038
00:35:09,037 --> 00:35:10,315
to show Lewis up.

1039
00:35:10,349 --> 00:35:14,871
- Please unveil the Vodafone
McLaren-Mercedes MP4-25.

1040
00:35:16,079 --> 00:35:19,013
- There was a real,
huge amount of energy

1041
00:35:19,047 --> 00:35:24,052
that they wanted proof that
Hamilton was aggressive,

1042
00:35:24,536 --> 00:35:25,778
he was careless,

1043
00:35:25,813 --> 00:35:29,541
he wasn't behaving
right with the team,

1044
00:35:29,575 --> 00:35:31,681
and that was why they
slipped backwards.

1045
00:35:31,715 --> 00:35:34,546
Whereas, obviously, you've
got the champion at the time,

1046
00:35:34,580 --> 00:35:36,444
Button, coming in.

1047
00:35:36,479 --> 00:35:37,721
"He's gonna sort it all out.

1048
00:35:37,756 --> 00:35:39,620
"It's going to be
really proper now."

1049
00:35:40,793 --> 00:35:42,692
We know why, it's
because Lewis is black

1050
00:35:42,726 --> 00:35:43,934
and Jenson is white.

1051
00:35:43,969 --> 00:35:45,971
And I don't think
that either of them...

1052
00:35:46,005 --> 00:35:47,559
Or I certainly don't
think Jensen would have

1053
00:35:47,593 --> 00:35:49,388
ever thought about it that way,

1054
00:35:49,423 --> 00:35:51,079
but that is, without question,

1055
00:35:51,114 --> 00:35:52,529
how it was treated in the media

1056
00:35:52,564 --> 00:35:55,083
and how it was treated within
the world of motorsport,

1057
00:35:55,118 --> 00:35:56,223
to some extent.

1058
00:35:56,257 --> 00:35:58,397
- McLaren has
appeared to have been

1059
00:35:58,432 --> 00:36:00,813
your team over
the years gone by,

1060
00:36:00,848 --> 00:36:01,918
Jenson's come in now.

1061
00:36:01,952 --> 00:36:03,437
Do you feel like
top dog or is it

1062
00:36:03,471 --> 00:36:05,093
very much a shared role?
- Well, the only reason

1063
00:36:05,128 --> 00:36:07,993
you say that is because I've
been at the front in the team.

1064
00:36:08,027 --> 00:36:10,168
So I don't particularly
agree with that.

1065
00:36:10,202 --> 00:36:11,307
But obviously,
I've been with them

1066
00:36:11,341 --> 00:36:12,584
for many, many years,

1067
00:36:12,618 --> 00:36:15,932
and I definitely am
a part of the family.

1068
00:36:15,966 --> 00:36:18,383
We are a great family

1069
00:36:18,417 --> 00:36:19,763
and we've welcomed Jenson in,

1070
00:36:19,798 --> 00:36:21,972
and he's just as much a
part of the team as I am.

1071
00:36:22,007 --> 00:36:24,216
So I don't think
that's going to have

1072
00:36:24,251 --> 00:36:26,391
any advantage on my side

1073
00:36:26,425 --> 00:36:28,462
or any impact to
how we work for it.

1074
00:36:28,496 --> 00:36:31,016
- You've got to be best
friends with your teammate

1075
00:36:31,050 --> 00:36:32,604
but also fierce rivals.

1076
00:36:32,638 --> 00:36:33,674
- Jensen just said,

1077
00:36:33,708 --> 00:36:35,020
"To get along with
your teammates,

1078
00:36:35,054 --> 00:36:36,124
"you have to be
the best of friends

1079
00:36:36,159 --> 00:36:37,988
"and the fiercest of rivals."

1080
00:36:38,023 --> 00:36:39,266
Would you go along with that?

1081
00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:40,543
Is that something
you see in him,

1082
00:36:40,577 --> 00:36:41,682
that you could be
the best of friends?

1083
00:36:41,716 --> 00:36:43,649
- I've never ever heard
that saying before,

1084
00:36:43,684 --> 00:36:47,274
so I'm not gonna say whether
I agree with that or not.

1085
00:36:47,308 --> 00:36:50,691
I mean, I think what you have
to do is you have to have

1086
00:36:50,725 --> 00:36:52,451
the utmost respect
for one another.

1087
00:36:52,486 --> 00:36:53,487
That's what I'll say.

1088
00:36:53,521 --> 00:36:55,661
- There was a time he
made a bit of a joke

1089
00:36:55,696 --> 00:36:57,974
about the fact that he was
getting targeted by the stewards

1090
00:36:58,008 --> 00:36:59,976
and wondered if it was
because of his race.

1091
00:37:00,010 --> 00:37:01,219
Now, it wasn't,

1092
00:37:01,253 --> 00:37:02,565
but you can understand
why he'd wonder it

1093
00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:03,876
because of course,
nobody else has

1094
00:37:03,911 --> 00:37:05,464
that consideration
to think about.

1095
00:37:05,499 --> 00:37:06,810
And on the flip side,

1096
00:37:06,845 --> 00:37:08,847
you do still get the
disappointing signs

1097
00:37:08,881 --> 00:37:11,194
of people being openly
racist towards him.

1098
00:37:12,954 --> 00:37:14,680
In 2010, in Spain,

1099
00:37:14,715 --> 00:37:15,992
he was racing for McLaren

1100
00:37:16,026 --> 00:37:18,891
and Fernando Alonso
was racing for Ferrari.

1101
00:37:18,926 --> 00:37:21,100
The Spaniards were
very, very vociferously

1102
00:37:21,135 --> 00:37:22,826
behind their home driver.

1103
00:37:22,861 --> 00:37:24,518
But the rivalry between Hamilton

1104
00:37:24,552 --> 00:37:27,003
and Alonso got pretty
toxic at McLaren,

1105
00:37:27,037 --> 00:37:29,247
so there was a lot of fans
that didn't like Lewis

1106
00:37:29,281 --> 00:37:30,765
and they were openly
racist towards him.

1107
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,905
It seemed to be a problem
within Spanish sport

1108
00:37:32,940 --> 00:37:33,941
at the time then,

1109
00:37:33,975 --> 00:37:35,253
and as Lewis was going around

1110
00:37:35,287 --> 00:37:36,495
on the driver parade,

1111
00:37:36,530 --> 00:37:37,462
monkey chants were
being directed

1112
00:37:37,496 --> 00:37:38,842
at him as he came past.

1113
00:37:38,877 --> 00:37:40,534
That's something that no
other driver has to deal with.

1114
00:37:40,568 --> 00:37:43,364
That was also fans
that, previous to that,

1115
00:37:43,399 --> 00:37:45,815
had painted themselves
black and pretended

1116
00:37:45,849 --> 00:37:47,575
to be Lewis Hamilton's family.

1117
00:37:47,610 --> 00:37:49,646
And these were
incidents that got swept

1118
00:37:49,681 --> 00:37:50,854
under the carpet by Formula One.

1119
00:37:50,889 --> 00:37:52,166
They were pointed at as,

1120
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,754
"This is bad, we
should stop this."

1121
00:37:53,788 --> 00:37:55,514
And then nothing else
has done about it.

1122
00:37:55,549 --> 00:37:56,929
- It's always driven him on,

1123
00:37:56,964 --> 00:37:58,862
even from his days
going karting and so on,

1124
00:37:58,897 --> 00:38:00,692
he and his father,
and then his brother,

1125
00:38:00,726 --> 00:38:01,727
used to turn up
and people looked

1126
00:38:01,762 --> 00:38:02,866
almost down their noses at them.

1127
00:38:02,901 --> 00:38:03,695
Like, "Who are you?

1128
00:38:03,729 --> 00:38:04,696
"Why are you here?"

1129
00:38:04,730 --> 00:38:06,007
That drives him on.

1130
00:38:06,042 --> 00:38:07,319
I mean, you think if
someone was doing that

1131
00:38:07,354 --> 00:38:09,287
to you all the time
for no other reason

1132
00:38:09,321 --> 00:38:10,840
that you were a
different color to them,

1133
00:38:10,874 --> 00:38:13,843
you either sink or
you grow and think,

1134
00:38:13,877 --> 00:38:15,327
"Right, I'm going to show you

1135
00:38:15,362 --> 00:38:17,087
"and I'm going to achieve
as much as I can."

1136
00:38:18,744 --> 00:38:22,679
- '10, '11, '12, were
strange years at McLaren.

1137
00:38:22,714 --> 00:38:24,716
The team was struggling worse

1138
00:38:24,750 --> 00:38:27,581
than it even looked like
it'd been struggling.

1139
00:38:27,615 --> 00:38:30,342
Although, the really
bad times came later,

1140
00:38:30,377 --> 00:38:33,069
it was definitely lining
itself up for them.

1141
00:38:33,103 --> 00:38:35,589
All of the well-oiled
parts that have to work

1142
00:38:35,623 --> 00:38:38,005
suddenly start grinding
on each other instead.

1143
00:38:42,665 --> 00:38:44,149
- One of the instances
I always remember

1144
00:38:44,183 --> 00:38:45,564
about dealing with
Lewis was back

1145
00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:46,876
when I interviewed him in 2012,

1146
00:38:46,910 --> 00:38:48,222
and he was at McLaren,

1147
00:38:48,256 --> 00:38:49,603
and he was having a
bit of a tough time.

1148
00:38:49,637 --> 00:38:51,294
And asked him a question about
his personal life, off-track.

1149
00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:52,571
We'd been told
before the interview

1150
00:38:52,606 --> 00:38:54,539
that we weren't allowed
to discuss this,

1151
00:38:54,573 --> 00:38:56,644
but then the way
he was speaking,

1152
00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:58,543
his demeanor was
very low, dejected,

1153
00:38:58,577 --> 00:38:59,751
it was clear something was up.

1154
00:38:59,785 --> 00:39:01,615
So I asked him what was wrong.

1155
00:39:01,649 --> 00:39:03,582
His previous race, he
had performed very well.

1156
00:39:03,617 --> 00:39:05,653
And he started off by
being very defensive,

1157
00:39:05,688 --> 00:39:06,999
being like, "Nothing's wrong.

1158
00:39:07,034 --> 00:39:07,931
"I don't know why
you'd think that,

1159
00:39:07,966 --> 00:39:09,243
"I'm completely fine."

1160
00:39:09,277 --> 00:39:10,762
But what Lewis does
very well is then

1161
00:39:10,796 --> 00:39:12,902
he likes to articulate
exactly how he's feeling.

1162
00:39:12,936 --> 00:39:14,386
He does like to be
open and honest.

1163
00:39:14,421 --> 00:39:15,974
And he spoke for
two, three minutes,

1164
00:39:16,008 --> 00:39:17,596
opening up eventually.

1165
00:39:17,631 --> 00:39:19,564
And he went from saying
that nothing was wrong

1166
00:39:19,598 --> 00:39:20,772
to completely
contradicting himself

1167
00:39:20,806 --> 00:39:22,083
and saying, at the end,

1168
00:39:22,118 --> 00:39:23,361
"It's actually been
a really tough time."

1169
00:39:23,395 --> 00:39:24,638
But it showed a bit
of insight there,

1170
00:39:24,672 --> 00:39:26,502
that Lewis is a genuine guy.

1171
00:39:26,536 --> 00:39:28,780
He quite often will try and
close himself off from it

1172
00:39:28,814 --> 00:39:30,333
because that leaves you as

1173
00:39:30,368 --> 00:39:31,265
someone who's vulnerable,

1174
00:39:31,299 --> 00:39:32,784
if you're always being that way.

1175
00:39:32,818 --> 00:39:33,923
But if he's engaging with you

1176
00:39:33,957 --> 00:39:35,269
and he's speaking to you,

1177
00:39:35,303 --> 00:39:36,615
he's speaking in an
honest and fair way.

1178
00:39:36,650 --> 00:39:38,306
And it was something
that, I think,

1179
00:39:38,341 --> 00:39:39,825
he was then allowed to do
when he moved to Mercedes,

1180
00:39:39,860 --> 00:39:41,344
is be himself more

1181
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:42,725
and that's helped his success.

1182
00:39:44,830 --> 00:39:47,074
The greatest drivers
tend to go to teams

1183
00:39:47,108 --> 00:39:48,558
that aren't winning races

1184
00:39:48,593 --> 00:39:50,318
and help them start
to become successful.

1185
00:39:50,353 --> 00:39:51,665
Michael Schumacher
went to Ferrari

1186
00:39:51,699 --> 00:39:53,494
when Ferrari were not very good,

1187
00:39:53,529 --> 00:39:55,565
and he helped them
become a dominant force,

1188
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,740
and added all of those
world championships

1189
00:39:57,774 --> 00:39:58,741
because of the work he did

1190
00:39:58,775 --> 00:40:00,294
and the groundwork
he helped set,

1191
00:40:00,328 --> 00:40:01,778
and Lewis wanted to
emulate that, in some way,

1192
00:40:01,813 --> 00:40:04,056
and Mercedes offered the
opportunity to do that.

1193
00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:07,612
- Niki Lauda saw his opportunity

1194
00:40:07,646 --> 00:40:10,615
that Lewis Hamilton wasn't
achieving with McLaren,

1195
00:40:10,649 --> 00:40:13,341
and there was a
chance to bring him

1196
00:40:13,376 --> 00:40:14,791
into the fold of Mercedes.

1197
00:40:14,826 --> 00:40:16,586
- It was shock when Lewis opted

1198
00:40:16,621 --> 00:40:18,105
to leave McLaren
and joined Mercedes,

1199
00:40:18,139 --> 00:40:19,382
mainly because it
was such a risk.

1200
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:20,797
McLaren had given him success,

1201
00:40:20,832 --> 00:40:22,178
they'd given him
race winning cars,

1202
00:40:22,212 --> 00:40:23,421
the whole way
through his career.

1203
00:40:23,455 --> 00:40:24,836
At that point, it didn't
seem like there was anything

1204
00:40:24,870 --> 00:40:26,354
that would suggest
McLaren wouldn't

1205
00:40:26,389 --> 00:40:28,218
still be winning
races moving forwards.

1206
00:40:28,253 --> 00:40:29,599
And although
Hamilton hadn't added

1207
00:40:29,634 --> 00:40:31,601
another championship to
his number, at that point,

1208
00:40:31,636 --> 00:40:33,707
he still was in a team
that obviously loved him,

1209
00:40:33,741 --> 00:40:35,605
that he had enjoyed
racing for up to then,

1210
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,676
but he'd had some
trouble maybe off-track

1211
00:40:37,711 --> 00:40:38,884
that had been affecting the way

1212
00:40:38,919 --> 00:40:40,196
he'd been performing
on the track.

1213
00:40:40,230 --> 00:40:41,473
And Lewis looked
at it as a chance

1214
00:40:41,508 --> 00:40:42,819
for a clean break,
a fresh start.

1215
00:40:42,854 --> 00:40:44,683
He didn't want a team that
controlled him so much,

1216
00:40:44,718 --> 00:40:47,824
like McLaren had done
throughout his career.

1217
00:40:47,859 --> 00:40:50,033
- Particularly, because he
had been a junior at McLaren,

1218
00:40:50,068 --> 00:40:51,897
he had a very
restrictive contract.

1219
00:40:51,932 --> 00:40:53,278
He had lots of ambitions,

1220
00:40:53,312 --> 00:40:55,349
he had lots of opportunities.

1221
00:40:55,383 --> 00:40:57,282
- A lot of people
criticize Lewis Hamilton

1222
00:40:57,316 --> 00:40:59,733
for running his
life how he wants

1223
00:40:59,767 --> 00:41:03,599
as opposed to how Formula
One normally demands.

1224
00:41:03,633 --> 00:41:04,703
But Hamilton is
absolutely adamant,

1225
00:41:04,738 --> 00:41:06,671
he does things his way
because that's what gets

1226
00:41:06,705 --> 00:41:08,051
the best out of him.

1227
00:41:08,086 --> 00:41:10,847
And that's probably an
intrinsic part of why

1228
00:41:10,882 --> 00:41:13,298
he left McLaren
to go to Mercedes,

1229
00:41:13,332 --> 00:41:15,196
because he felt that he
was still being treated

1230
00:41:15,231 --> 00:41:16,681
like a young driver

1231
00:41:16,715 --> 00:41:18,786
and not being given the respect.

1232
00:41:18,821 --> 00:41:20,892
And maybe Mercedes treated
him more as a partner,

1233
00:41:20,926 --> 00:41:22,618
as opposed to an employee.

1234
00:41:22,652 --> 00:41:24,585
And so, he was
given greater head

1235
00:41:24,620 --> 00:41:26,138
and greater leeway.

1236
00:41:26,173 --> 00:41:28,071
And so, who can see
he's got it wrong?

1237
00:41:40,808 --> 00:41:42,914
- In this sport, it's
not unlike football,

1238
00:41:42,948 --> 00:41:45,088
where you are teammates

1239
00:41:45,123 --> 00:41:47,884
with lots of different people.

1240
00:41:47,919 --> 00:41:50,646
It's obviously, we are
teammates as two drivers,

1241
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,786
and our ultimate
goal is to make sure

1242
00:41:52,820 --> 00:41:56,341
we get those two
cars across the line,

1243
00:41:56,375 --> 00:41:57,756
first and second.

1244
00:41:57,791 --> 00:42:01,001
But also, we wanna be the
first one ahead of that.

1245
00:42:01,035 --> 00:42:03,935
So there's that
internal competition

1246
00:42:03,969 --> 00:42:05,661
and the external competition.

1247
00:42:05,695 --> 00:42:08,664
- It's all fine being
friends with your teammate

1248
00:42:08,698 --> 00:42:09,768
until you're competing.

1249
00:42:09,803 --> 00:42:11,321
- The one person
you need to beat

1250
00:42:11,356 --> 00:42:12,771
in Formula One is your teammate.

1251
00:42:12,806 --> 00:42:14,428
So therefore, there is this idea

1252
00:42:14,462 --> 00:42:16,775
that he's your mate
'cause he's your teammate.

1253
00:42:16,810 --> 00:42:17,776
No, he's not.

1254
00:42:17,811 --> 00:42:20,020
He is the one person
you need to beat

1255
00:42:20,054 --> 00:42:21,815
because he is the other person

1256
00:42:21,849 --> 00:42:23,092
who has exactly
the same machinery,

1257
00:42:23,126 --> 00:42:24,783
all being well, that you have.

1258
00:42:24,818 --> 00:42:27,786
So if you are behind your
teammate consistently,

1259
00:42:27,821 --> 00:42:30,927
it must work really
hard on here.

1260
00:42:30,962 --> 00:42:32,826
- So there's a degree
to which you have

1261
00:42:32,860 --> 00:42:36,761
to, at least, pretend to
have a entente cordiale

1262
00:42:36,795 --> 00:42:38,279
between the pair of you

1263
00:42:38,314 --> 00:42:39,971
in order to work together.

1264
00:42:40,005 --> 00:42:43,561
- I mean, I don't have
that to better anyone.

1265
00:42:43,595 --> 00:42:46,840
Of course, I want to
maximize in my life,

1266
00:42:46,874 --> 00:42:49,670
in the opportunities and
the gifts that I was given,

1267
00:42:49,705 --> 00:42:52,949
and all the opportunity
that is at hand.

1268
00:42:52,984 --> 00:42:54,364
- So Lewis and Nico Rosberg used

1269
00:42:54,399 --> 00:42:57,505
to be karting teammates
back in the late 90s

1270
00:42:57,540 --> 00:42:58,817
and early 2000s.

1271
00:42:58,852 --> 00:42:59,715
And back then, it
was obviously fun.

1272
00:42:59,749 --> 00:43:00,819
Their dream was to go and race

1273
00:43:00,854 --> 00:43:01,682
in Formula One together.

1274
00:43:01,717 --> 00:43:03,339
- They were genuine friends,

1275
00:43:03,373 --> 00:43:05,686
they celebrated each
other's successes,

1276
00:43:05,721 --> 00:43:07,826
and I think they were
delighted to be teammates.

1277
00:43:07,861 --> 00:43:09,241
That would have been something

1278
00:43:09,276 --> 00:43:11,692
that would have been a big sell

1279
00:43:11,727 --> 00:43:13,798
for Hamilton moving to Mercedes,

1280
00:43:13,832 --> 00:43:16,041
was to be reunited with Rosberg.

1281
00:43:18,009 --> 00:43:21,046
In order to get them to win,

1282
00:43:21,081 --> 00:43:24,636
they turned them
against each other.

1283
00:43:24,671 --> 00:43:26,362
There seems to have been a point

1284
00:43:26,396 --> 00:43:28,571
that division was shown,

1285
00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:31,574
and then it became
outright paranoia.

1286
00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:34,266
So it's a method that
works competitively.

1287
00:43:34,301 --> 00:43:35,751
Is it sustainable

1288
00:43:35,785 --> 00:43:38,270
and does it make everyone
involved go crazy?

1289
00:43:38,305 --> 00:43:39,720
No, it's not sustainable.

1290
00:43:39,755 --> 00:43:42,343
And yes, it will
ultimately screw things up

1291
00:43:42,378 --> 00:43:45,933
and create this incredibly
intense environment.

1292
00:43:45,968 --> 00:43:47,245
- Lewis needed a
little bit of love

1293
00:43:47,279 --> 00:43:48,833
and support early on.

1294
00:43:48,867 --> 00:43:50,697
There was a couple of times
where Hamilton was running ahead

1295
00:43:50,731 --> 00:43:51,905
of Rosberg in a race,

1296
00:43:51,939 --> 00:43:53,838
and Mercedes were on
for a good result.

1297
00:43:53,872 --> 00:43:54,873
One was in Malaysia,

1298
00:43:54,908 --> 00:43:56,426
they were on for third
and fourth in the race,

1299
00:43:56,461 --> 00:43:58,705
and there was no point in
risking them swapping positions.

1300
00:43:58,739 --> 00:44:00,085
So Mercedes told the drivers,

1301
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,431
"Don't race each other,"

1302
00:44:01,466 --> 00:44:02,985
which meant Rosberg had
to sit behind Hamilton.

1303
00:44:03,019 --> 00:44:04,262
And he didn't
particularly like that

1304
00:44:04,296 --> 00:44:05,884
because he didn't want
this driver coming in,

1305
00:44:05,919 --> 00:44:08,369
new to the team that he'd
been working with for awhile,

1306
00:44:08,404 --> 00:44:10,164
and having a little
bit more authority

1307
00:44:10,199 --> 00:44:12,235
or getting a bit more
preferential treatment.

1308
00:44:12,270 --> 00:44:14,030
So there was always this effort

1309
00:44:14,065 --> 00:44:15,583
from both of them
to want equality

1310
00:44:15,618 --> 00:44:16,723
within that team.

1311
00:44:16,757 --> 00:44:18,379
But then when we came to 2014,

1312
00:44:18,414 --> 00:44:19,691
Mercedes was the only team

1313
00:44:19,726 --> 00:44:20,934
that was ever going
to win a championship,

1314
00:44:20,968 --> 00:44:22,936
so that meant they were
their two main rivals.

1315
00:44:22,970 --> 00:44:24,213
- I think in 2014,

1316
00:44:24,247 --> 00:44:25,732
they were still
getting on together.

1317
00:44:25,766 --> 00:44:28,355
They were still working to
push the team forward together.

1318
00:44:28,389 --> 00:44:29,908
Hamilton was probably
a little bit surprised

1319
00:44:29,943 --> 00:44:33,187
how competitive
Rosberg was with him.

1320
00:44:33,222 --> 00:44:38,227
Things really started
to go in 2015.

1321
00:44:39,297 --> 00:44:41,540
The rivalry was intense
enough on track,

1322
00:44:41,575 --> 00:44:45,130
and then there'd be people
outright making stuff up

1323
00:44:45,165 --> 00:44:47,408
about everything else off-track,

1324
00:44:47,443 --> 00:44:49,031
and a lot of conjecture about

1325
00:44:49,065 --> 00:44:51,033
everything that really
was happening already.

1326
00:44:51,067 --> 00:44:54,070
By 2016, Hamilton did allege

1327
00:44:54,105 --> 00:44:57,418
that Mercedes was sabotaging
his car at one point.

1328
00:44:57,453 --> 00:44:59,282
Or seemed to allege,

1329
00:44:59,317 --> 00:45:02,803
after the third engine blowout.

1330
00:45:02,838 --> 00:45:04,184
- [Announcer] It's
Lewis Hamilton,

1331
00:45:04,218 --> 00:45:06,704
there's a fire at the
back of that Mercedes car.

1332
00:45:06,738 --> 00:45:08,982
His engine has blown

1333
00:45:09,016 --> 00:45:12,813
and his chances of winning the
Malaysia Grand Prix with it.

1334
00:45:12,848 --> 00:45:14,539
- Oh no, no.

1335
00:45:14,573 --> 00:45:16,265
- It's a very, very
odd feeling right now,

1336
00:45:16,299 --> 00:45:17,645
I have to say.

1337
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:18,543
It's very hard to stand here

1338
00:45:18,577 --> 00:45:19,475
and be old positive and be like,

1339
00:45:19,509 --> 00:45:20,752
"Yeah, it's going to be great"

1340
00:45:20,787 --> 00:45:22,167
'cause I'm the only one
with Mercedes engines

1341
00:45:22,202 --> 00:45:23,790
that have been failing this year

1342
00:45:23,824 --> 00:45:24,756
out of all the engines,

1343
00:45:24,791 --> 00:45:25,550
which is...

1344
00:45:26,758 --> 00:45:29,727
It just doesn't
sit right with me.

1345
00:45:29,761 --> 00:45:32,005
- There was a moment
in 2016 where,

1346
00:45:32,039 --> 00:45:34,697
by now, we were a couple of
years into Mercedes dominance,

1347
00:45:34,732 --> 00:45:35,974
where Hamilton and Rosberg were

1348
00:45:36,009 --> 00:45:37,562
really fighting for the title,

1349
00:45:37,596 --> 00:45:39,978
and Rosberg was leading at
the start of the race in Spain

1350
00:45:40,013 --> 00:45:41,048
and Hamilton went to overtake

1351
00:45:41,083 --> 00:45:42,360
because he'd seen
Rosberg had a bit

1352
00:45:42,394 --> 00:45:43,568
of a problem with his car.

1353
00:45:43,602 --> 00:45:44,742
- [Announcer] Good
start from Carlos Sainz.

1354
00:45:44,776 --> 00:45:46,398
He's ahead of Valtteri Bottas,

1355
00:45:46,433 --> 00:45:47,883
[indistinct], turn three we go!

1356
00:45:47,917 --> 00:45:49,677
- Rosberg defended, Hamilton
went onto the grass,

1357
00:45:49,712 --> 00:45:51,024
and spun and took them both out.

1358
00:45:51,058 --> 00:45:52,128
- [Announcer] And
it's Nico Rosberg,

1359
00:45:52,163 --> 00:45:53,889
and Hamilton's onto the grass.

1360
00:45:53,923 --> 00:45:55,545
And Hamilton's had
a massive crash!

1361
00:45:55,580 --> 00:45:57,064
And he's crashed
into his teammate!

1362
00:45:57,099 --> 00:45:59,722
The two Mercedes come together

1363
00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:02,069
as Hamilton tried to
pass on the inside!

1364
00:46:02,104 --> 00:46:05,176
And he can cover his
hands over his eyes,

1365
00:46:05,210 --> 00:46:07,178
and he won't want
to see that again!

1366
00:46:07,212 --> 00:46:09,490
- And it was the first
time they properly collided

1367
00:46:09,525 --> 00:46:11,527
and taken each other
completely out of the race.

1368
00:46:11,561 --> 00:46:12,735
They'd had incidents before

1369
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:14,564
where they raced hard but fair,

1370
00:46:14,599 --> 00:46:17,498
but this one was the worst
thing you could do as teammates,

1371
00:46:17,533 --> 00:46:18,983
is crash into each other.

1372
00:46:19,017 --> 00:46:19,984
And off the back of that,

1373
00:46:20,018 --> 00:46:22,987
there was clearly a sign
from within the team

1374
00:46:23,021 --> 00:46:25,161
of descent towards one
driver or the other

1375
00:46:25,196 --> 00:46:26,059
for their part in it.

1376
00:46:26,093 --> 00:46:27,577
And it really, I think,

1377
00:46:27,612 --> 00:46:29,579
made for a big crack
between the two of them.

1378
00:46:29,614 --> 00:46:31,719
Going into the final
race in Abu Dhabi,

1379
00:46:31,754 --> 00:46:32,997
Lewis needed to win the race

1380
00:46:33,031 --> 00:46:34,377
to have a chance of
winning the championship,

1381
00:46:34,412 --> 00:46:35,965
and he needed his
teammate, Nico Rosberg,

1382
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,071
to not finish right behind him.

1383
00:46:38,105 --> 00:46:39,727
- Conundrum for Rosberg:

1384
00:46:39,762 --> 00:46:41,868
If Vettel gets a
run at him on DRS,

1385
00:46:41,902 --> 00:46:43,731
does he fight him or not?

1386
00:46:43,766 --> 00:46:45,078
- Going into the race,

1387
00:46:45,112 --> 00:46:46,320
he'd said he wasn't
going to do anything

1388
00:46:46,355 --> 00:46:48,046
that would jeopardize
Rosberg's race,

1389
00:46:48,081 --> 00:46:49,876
but they were leading,
first and second,

1390
00:46:49,910 --> 00:46:51,187
Hamilton in the lead,

1391
00:46:51,222 --> 00:46:53,086
and what he did was
drive at a slower pace

1392
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,915
that backed Rosberg
towards the cars behind,

1393
00:46:54,950 --> 00:46:56,261
so it left him under threat.

1394
00:46:56,296 --> 00:46:58,850
- [Announcer] Lewis is
backing them up even more.

1395
00:46:58,885 --> 00:47:00,507
- [Announcer] and
Rosberg knows it.

1396
00:47:00,541 --> 00:47:03,061
So does he let
Sebastian Vettel go?

1397
00:47:03,096 --> 00:47:04,338
He can't afford any contact.

1398
00:47:04,373 --> 00:47:07,376
He can't afford an
entanglement here.

1399
00:47:07,410 --> 00:47:08,998
- Now, the drivers
behind never really tried

1400
00:47:09,033 --> 00:47:10,413
to move on Rosberg,

1401
00:47:10,448 --> 00:47:11,207
they knew it was risky.

1402
00:47:11,242 --> 00:47:12,036
If there'd been contact,

1403
00:47:12,070 --> 00:47:13,209
it would have meant that

1404
00:47:13,244 --> 00:47:14,590
if Rosberg was taken out,

1405
00:47:14,624 --> 00:47:16,005
they'd be to blame for him
losing the championship.

1406
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,214
But Hamilton had
this incredible skill

1407
00:47:18,249 --> 00:47:19,181
to be able to go fast enough

1408
00:47:19,215 --> 00:47:20,699
that Rosberg can overtake him

1409
00:47:20,734 --> 00:47:23,185
but slow enough that other
drivers have caught up.

1410
00:47:23,219 --> 00:47:25,290
So it showed the level
of talent that he had

1411
00:47:25,325 --> 00:47:26,257
but at the same time,

1412
00:47:26,291 --> 00:47:27,534
he was then putting
his teammate at risk.

1413
00:47:27,568 --> 00:47:28,880
And if it all gone wrong,

1414
00:47:28,915 --> 00:47:30,019
that was going to
be really damaging

1415
00:47:30,054 --> 00:47:31,641
to Mercedes as a team.

1416
00:47:31,676 --> 00:47:33,574
So what they were watching
was some infighting play out

1417
00:47:33,609 --> 00:47:35,611
in front of the world
in a title decider.

1418
00:47:35,645 --> 00:47:37,095
- [Announcer]
Lewis Hamilton wins

1419
00:47:37,130 --> 00:47:39,201
the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix!

1420
00:47:39,235 --> 00:47:41,203
Nico Rosberg is second!

1421
00:47:41,237 --> 00:47:45,552
He takes the championship
34 years after his father!

1422
00:47:45,586 --> 00:47:48,313
It's like father, it's like son!

1423
00:47:48,348 --> 00:47:50,384
- He's willing to
push it right up to

1424
00:47:50,419 --> 00:47:51,765
what you would call "the
limit of fair play,"

1425
00:47:51,799 --> 00:47:54,112
that was in that gray area

1426
00:47:54,147 --> 00:47:55,907
where it was maybe being
a bit unsportsmanlike,

1427
00:47:55,942 --> 00:47:57,253
but it wasn't illegal.

1428
00:47:57,288 --> 00:47:59,497
What he could control, he
was going to try and control.

1429
00:47:59,531 --> 00:48:02,224
- Well, my mindset's the
same as it is every year.

1430
00:48:02,258 --> 00:48:03,259
I want to win.

1431
00:48:03,294 --> 00:48:07,125
It's a pretty, pretty
simple mindset to have.

1432
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,507
It's a lot harder
obviously to do that

1433
00:48:09,541 --> 00:48:12,475
but every year, wanting to grow,

1434
00:48:12,510 --> 00:48:14,615
wanting to improve as a driver

1435
00:48:14,650 --> 00:48:15,996
and as a human.

1436
00:48:19,275 --> 00:48:22,175
- Rosberg knew that
when he won the title,

1437
00:48:22,209 --> 00:48:23,693
he had to leave because
of everything it took

1438
00:48:23,728 --> 00:48:25,143
for him to beat Hamilton,

1439
00:48:25,178 --> 00:48:26,938
it just wasn't
sustainable longterm.

1440
00:48:29,113 --> 00:48:31,253
- Hamilton rivalries are
an interesting topic.

1441
00:48:31,287 --> 00:48:34,256
The most obvious one is
with Sebastian Vettel.

1442
00:48:34,290 --> 00:48:36,085
- So Lewis was the
youngest drivers champion

1443
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,536
at the time when he won
his championship in 2008,

1444
00:48:38,570 --> 00:48:40,710
but then Sebastian Vettel
came through the ranks

1445
00:48:40,745 --> 00:48:42,436
and usurped him
with that record,

1446
00:48:42,471 --> 00:48:43,955
and went on to win four in a row

1447
00:48:43,990 --> 00:48:46,164
for Red Bull, from 2010 to 2013.

1448
00:48:46,199 --> 00:48:47,855
And Hamilton was in the fight,

1449
00:48:47,890 --> 00:48:50,030
but never winning the
championship in those years.

1450
00:48:50,065 --> 00:48:51,376
And it was frustrating for him

1451
00:48:51,411 --> 00:48:53,447
because he felt like he should
be getting those results,

1452
00:48:53,482 --> 00:48:54,828
that he could be
getting those records.

1453
00:48:54,862 --> 00:48:55,794
And at that point,

1454
00:48:55,829 --> 00:48:57,106
it looked like Vettel
was going to be the man

1455
00:48:57,141 --> 00:48:58,970
that might match
Michael Schumacher's

1456
00:48:59,005 --> 00:49:01,317
overall record of wins
and championships.

1457
00:49:01,352 --> 00:49:03,388
So Hamilton was looking at it

1458
00:49:03,423 --> 00:49:04,872
as someone who
basically was a threat

1459
00:49:04,907 --> 00:49:06,495
to his potential legacy
within the sport,

1460
00:49:06,529 --> 00:49:09,118
if he could go and
achieve those results.

1461
00:49:09,153 --> 00:49:11,155
And then, things started to
get a little bit more tasty

1462
00:49:11,189 --> 00:49:13,122
when Mercedes became dominant

1463
00:49:13,157 --> 00:49:14,641
and Lewis started
coming back at Vettel

1464
00:49:14,675 --> 00:49:15,642
in terms of the wins,

1465
00:49:15,676 --> 00:49:17,195
started getting more titles.

1466
00:49:17,230 --> 00:49:19,508
- Arguably, Ferrari and Vettel
should have been champion

1467
00:49:19,542 --> 00:49:21,337
those two years,
but they weren't.

1468
00:49:21,372 --> 00:49:23,374
And there were some
very tetchy moments.

1469
00:49:23,408 --> 00:49:26,239
And whenever you'd
have drivers going

1470
00:49:26,273 --> 00:49:28,896
for the ultimate
prize in motorsport,

1471
00:49:28,931 --> 00:49:31,106
and I suppose it's the same
in boxing or any sport,

1472
00:49:31,140 --> 00:49:32,452
there's respect,
there's admiration,

1473
00:49:32,486 --> 00:49:35,455
but is there mutual
appreciation?

1474
00:49:35,489 --> 00:49:36,939
Possibly, but do
they like each other?

1475
00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:38,216
Do they have to like each other?

1476
00:49:38,251 --> 00:49:39,873
Probably not, because
you want to go out there

1477
00:49:39,907 --> 00:49:41,116
and you want to
nail that person.

1478
00:49:41,150 --> 00:49:42,358
- [Announcer] Oh dear.

1479
00:49:42,393 --> 00:49:44,050
There is Daniil Kvyat,

1480
00:49:44,084 --> 00:49:46,914
stopped by the
side of the track.

1481
00:49:46,949 --> 00:49:48,709
- In 2017, they were fighting

1482
00:49:48,744 --> 00:49:50,021
for the championship,

1483
00:49:50,056 --> 00:49:51,367
one in a Mercedes,
one in a Ferrari,

1484
00:49:51,402 --> 00:49:52,782
and they were racing
each other wheel-to-wheel

1485
00:49:52,817 --> 00:49:54,129
in Azerbaijan.

1486
00:49:54,163 --> 00:49:55,958
And Vettel felt that
Hamilton was using

1487
00:49:55,993 --> 00:49:57,822
some dirty tricks
behind the safety car,

1488
00:49:57,856 --> 00:49:58,926
and brake tested him,

1489
00:49:58,961 --> 00:50:00,238
and basically made Vettel run

1490
00:50:00,273 --> 00:50:01,550
into the back of Hamilton's car.

1491
00:50:01,584 --> 00:50:04,208
- [Announcer] The safety
car is coming out.

1492
00:50:04,242 --> 00:50:06,486
So there goes Hamilton.

1493
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,143
- [Lewis] Safety car
needs to speed up

1494
00:50:08,177 --> 00:50:10,938
because this is too slow.

1495
00:50:10,973 --> 00:50:13,148
- [Announcer] Lewis is backing
up the pack a little bit

1496
00:50:13,182 --> 00:50:13,976
and oh!

1497
00:50:14,011 --> 00:50:14,908
He went into him!

1498
00:50:14,942 --> 00:50:16,220
- [Vettel] He brake-tested me!

1499
00:50:16,254 --> 00:50:17,221
- Hamilton did no such thing.

1500
00:50:17,255 --> 00:50:18,463
Vettel actually
just made a mistake,

1501
00:50:18,498 --> 00:50:20,776
but he was so incensed
to what he'd seen.

1502
00:50:20,810 --> 00:50:22,226
And these two were
clearly fighting

1503
00:50:22,260 --> 00:50:24,297
to be the best,
potentially, of all times,

1504
00:50:24,331 --> 00:50:27,058
they were fighting for a
fifth world championship each,

1505
00:50:27,093 --> 00:50:28,439
that Vettel then
drove into Hamilton

1506
00:50:28,473 --> 00:50:29,785
to show his frustration.

1507
00:50:29,819 --> 00:50:32,098
- [Vettel] What the
[beep] going on?

1508
00:50:32,132 --> 00:50:35,066
- [Lewis] Vettel literally
just came alongside me

1509
00:50:35,101 --> 00:50:36,412
and turned in and hit me.

1510
00:50:36,447 --> 00:50:38,242
- And it just showed actually
what was on the line here.

1511
00:50:38,276 --> 00:50:39,795
These were two drivers that

1512
00:50:39,829 --> 00:50:41,452
clearly were on a
very similar level,

1513
00:50:41,486 --> 00:50:42,729
but they were
looking at a legacy

1514
00:50:42,763 --> 00:50:44,558
that would go long beyond when

1515
00:50:44,593 --> 00:50:46,215
they currently race
in Formula One.

1516
00:50:46,250 --> 00:50:48,079
- But who came
out on top in 2017

1517
00:50:48,114 --> 00:50:50,254
and who came on top in 2018?

1518
00:50:50,288 --> 00:50:51,220
Lewis Hamilton.

1519
00:50:51,255 --> 00:50:53,084
Ferrari and Vettel cracked,

1520
00:50:53,119 --> 00:50:53,843
and he didn't.

1521
00:50:57,192 --> 00:50:59,021
- But from 2017, when
Mercedes delivered

1522
00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:01,299
a race winning car
and championship
winning car once again,

1523
00:51:01,334 --> 00:51:02,335
there were bigger threats

1524
00:51:02,369 --> 00:51:03,681
from the likes of
Ferrari and Red Bull,

1525
00:51:03,715 --> 00:51:05,131
but they were still
the standout team.

1526
00:51:05,165 --> 00:51:06,442
And that allowed Hamilton,

1527
00:51:06,477 --> 00:51:07,926
with Valtteri Bottas
as almost his wing man,

1528
00:51:07,961 --> 00:51:10,032
as the guy that was
good and helping

1529
00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:11,965
but wasn't always
the biggest threat,

1530
00:51:11,999 --> 00:51:13,484
allowed Hamilton to
dominate completely.

1531
00:51:13,518 --> 00:51:15,796
He started racking up records
left, right and center

1532
00:51:15,831 --> 00:51:17,246
for race wins, pole positions,

1533
00:51:17,281 --> 00:51:18,937
fastest laps,

1534
00:51:18,972 --> 00:51:21,699
and now world championships,
matching Michael Schumacher.

1535
00:51:21,733 --> 00:51:22,976
- It's not just the titles.

1536
00:51:23,010 --> 00:51:24,874
It's the time that
he had in Formula One

1537
00:51:24,909 --> 00:51:26,428
at the highest level,

1538
00:51:26,462 --> 00:51:29,534
continually repeating
maximum performance

1539
00:51:29,569 --> 00:51:30,363
after maximum performance.

1540
00:51:30,397 --> 00:51:32,123
There's no dip.

1541
00:51:32,158 --> 00:51:35,333
- Hamilton's ability
to not make mistakes is

1542
00:51:35,368 --> 00:51:37,370
what has served
him incredibly well

1543
00:51:37,404 --> 00:51:39,441
all the way through
his racing career.

1544
00:51:39,475 --> 00:51:41,788
But they're so,
so rare from him.

1545
00:51:41,822 --> 00:51:44,687
- How many mistakes does
he make in his career?

1546
00:51:44,722 --> 00:51:47,311
It's very difficult
to think of very many.

1547
00:51:47,345 --> 00:51:49,451
Even to number on the
fingers of one hand,

1548
00:51:49,485 --> 00:51:50,831
never mind two.

1549
00:51:50,866 --> 00:51:52,626
And somehow, he's
just able to perform.

1550
00:51:52,661 --> 00:51:54,352
It shows a great mental capacity

1551
00:51:54,387 --> 00:51:56,492
to learn from those mistakes.

1552
00:51:56,527 --> 00:51:57,976
A bit like Formula
One is dominated

1553
00:51:58,011 --> 00:51:59,495
by engineering and data;

1554
00:51:59,530 --> 00:52:01,704
this is his data up
here, in his head.

1555
00:52:08,401 --> 00:52:10,817
He's become part of the
most successful team

1556
00:52:10,851 --> 00:52:12,163
in Formula One.

1557
00:52:12,198 --> 00:52:13,854
I never thought anyone
would be able to top

1558
00:52:13,889 --> 00:52:15,925
the Ferrari team of
Michael Schumacher

1559
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:17,341
in the noughties,

1560
00:52:17,375 --> 00:52:18,997
when he just went on that
run of incredible success,

1561
00:52:19,032 --> 00:52:21,310
championship after championship
after championship.

1562
00:52:21,345 --> 00:52:23,381
But Mercedes and Lewis
Hamilton have done that,

1563
00:52:23,416 --> 00:52:24,417
and they've done it in a way

1564
00:52:24,451 --> 00:52:25,935
where some people
say it's boring,

1565
00:52:25,970 --> 00:52:28,006
but you've got to
applaud what they've done

1566
00:52:28,041 --> 00:52:30,423
because every
company, every team,

1567
00:52:30,457 --> 00:52:33,529
in whatever sport, wants to
achieve like they have done.

1568
00:52:33,564 --> 00:52:35,393
- Formula One champion,
Lewis Hamilton.

1569
00:52:38,396 --> 00:52:40,640
- I'm really proud of what
we've achieved as a team.

1570
00:52:40,674 --> 00:52:43,194
I'm proud of what we've done.

1571
00:52:43,229 --> 00:52:45,541
To go into a sixth year...

1572
00:52:45,576 --> 00:52:47,681
Well, it's my seventh
year with the team,

1573
00:52:47,716 --> 00:52:49,200
but on the sixth year,

1574
00:52:49,235 --> 00:52:52,410
for us to to have
fought for a world title

1575
00:52:52,445 --> 00:52:53,825
and been at the front,

1576
00:52:53,860 --> 00:52:55,241
and sustain the performance
that we have collectively,

1577
00:52:55,275 --> 00:52:56,449
I think has been...

1578
00:52:57,381 --> 00:52:58,244
And then on the driving front,

1579
00:52:58,278 --> 00:52:59,555
I'm definitely very happy with

1580
00:52:59,590 --> 00:53:01,212
my performance this year.

1581
00:53:01,247 --> 00:53:03,110
I think there's areas I
can improve on, for sure,

1582
00:53:03,145 --> 00:53:05,389
but that will never change.

1583
00:53:05,423 --> 00:53:08,185
The races are really where
the championship was won,

1584
00:53:08,219 --> 00:53:09,841
but I think moreso the outside

1585
00:53:09,876 --> 00:53:11,257
of just being happier.

1586
00:53:11,291 --> 00:53:14,398
Happier in a collaboration
with the team,

1587
00:53:14,432 --> 00:53:15,571
in terms of our teamwork,

1588
00:53:15,606 --> 00:53:16,572
the things that...

1589
00:53:16,607 --> 00:53:17,780
The doors that it opened,

1590
00:53:17,815 --> 00:53:19,437
in terms of doing the fashion,

1591
00:53:19,472 --> 00:53:21,405
that's been well-received
and well-accepted.

1592
00:53:21,439 --> 00:53:22,785
And my fans have been amazing

1593
00:53:22,820 --> 00:53:24,270
in supporting me with it.

1594
00:53:24,304 --> 00:53:25,409
Being able to do those things

1595
00:53:25,443 --> 00:53:27,687
and it not be talked
about too much,

1596
00:53:27,721 --> 00:53:30,448
in the sense of negative,
"that's a distraction."

1597
00:53:30,483 --> 00:53:33,451
- People get a bit
offended that he goes off

1598
00:53:33,486 --> 00:53:35,281
and does stuff
with other people.

1599
00:53:35,315 --> 00:53:38,491
So he's more likely to
go to Paris Fashion Week

1600
00:53:38,525 --> 00:53:39,595
than the Goodwood Revival,

1601
00:53:39,630 --> 00:53:41,321
but ultimately, they're
kind of the same thing.

1602
00:53:41,356 --> 00:53:43,461
It's just one of them
is more normalized

1603
00:53:43,496 --> 00:53:45,256
in the world that he exists in

1604
00:53:45,291 --> 00:53:49,467
or that they perceive him
as existing in exclusively.

1605
00:53:49,502 --> 00:53:50,917
- I remember Bernie
Ecclestone saying,

1606
00:53:50,951 --> 00:53:53,437
"You look at the value
that Lewis Hamilton,

1607
00:53:53,471 --> 00:53:56,612
"for all his skills
and all his attributes,

1608
00:53:56,647 --> 00:53:57,993
"look what he
brings to the sport.

1609
00:53:58,027 --> 00:53:59,650
"He's not just a
Formula One driver."

1610
00:53:59,684 --> 00:54:01,410
He brings more to the value

1611
00:54:01,445 --> 00:54:03,274
and the brand of Formula One

1612
00:54:03,309 --> 00:54:04,931
than someone like Nico Rosberg,

1613
00:54:04,965 --> 00:54:07,313
because he reaches out
to a different audience,

1614
00:54:07,347 --> 00:54:08,141
a black audience.

1615
00:54:08,175 --> 00:54:08,935
He reaches out in music,

1616
00:54:08,969 --> 00:54:10,108
he does fashion,

1617
00:54:10,143 --> 00:54:11,455
he does veganism.

1618
00:54:11,489 --> 00:54:14,043
He's getting more active
in terms of politics,

1619
00:54:14,078 --> 00:54:15,562
and diversity and inclusion.

1620
00:54:17,254 --> 00:54:18,358
- [Interviewer] So
welcome to Brazil.

1621
00:54:18,393 --> 00:54:19,842
How are you feeling today?

1622
00:54:19,877 --> 00:54:21,844
- [speaking foreign
language] Good morning.

1623
00:54:21,879 --> 00:54:23,156
- [Interviewer] [speaking
foreign language] Thank you.

1624
00:54:23,190 --> 00:54:24,709
- Hi everyone, it's
great to be here.

1625
00:54:24,744 --> 00:54:26,124
Most importantly, as I said,

1626
00:54:26,159 --> 00:54:28,230
I've just come from this
great period of time

1627
00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:29,852
with my family and friends,

1628
00:54:29,887 --> 00:54:32,510
that I have this huge
wave of positive energy,

1629
00:54:32,545 --> 00:54:35,306
and nothing can
really dent that.

1630
00:54:35,341 --> 00:54:36,480
My goal, as a kid,

1631
00:54:36,514 --> 00:54:38,482
was always to do
something, like Ayrton.

1632
00:54:38,516 --> 00:54:41,485
So I never even had imagined

1633
00:54:41,519 --> 00:54:43,625
what would be beyond that.

1634
00:54:43,659 --> 00:54:46,213
Just getting to
accomplish something,

1635
00:54:46,248 --> 00:54:48,664
like Ayrton was
already a huge feat.

1636
00:54:48,699 --> 00:54:51,253
- One of the guys that Lewis
Hamilton always references

1637
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:53,669
as someone who inspired him
growing up is Ayrton Senna.

1638
00:54:53,704 --> 00:54:55,464
He was a three-time
world champion.

1639
00:54:55,499 --> 00:54:57,535
He lost his life racing in 1994.

1640
00:54:57,570 --> 00:54:59,848
And Lewis was just starting
out in karts at that point,

1641
00:54:59,882 --> 00:55:01,056
so he was aware of Senna,

1642
00:55:01,090 --> 00:55:02,678
of his style, of his skill,

1643
00:55:02,713 --> 00:55:04,508
and of the fact that he
was killed behind the car,

1644
00:55:04,542 --> 00:55:06,682
and that affected him
quite a lot, I think.

1645
00:55:06,717 --> 00:55:08,822
Lewis had a very similar
helmet designed to Senna,

1646
00:55:08,857 --> 00:55:10,410
a bright yellow design,

1647
00:55:10,445 --> 00:55:11,756
which was actually to help
his father pick him out

1648
00:55:11,791 --> 00:55:13,724
on the karting track
when they were racing.

1649
00:55:13,758 --> 00:55:15,691
But it also showed
that he was inspired

1650
00:55:15,726 --> 00:55:17,003
by what Ayrton did.

1651
00:55:17,037 --> 00:55:18,694
And Ayrton was another
one of these drivers

1652
00:55:18,729 --> 00:55:20,040
who felt like he
could use his position

1653
00:55:20,075 --> 00:55:21,525
to improve the world,

1654
00:55:21,559 --> 00:55:22,664
outside of Formula One,

1655
00:55:22,698 --> 00:55:24,182
but also his driving style
was very similar to Lewis.

1656
00:55:24,217 --> 00:55:26,288
He was very aggressive,
very attacking,

1657
00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:28,117
did everything on
raw, natural feel,

1658
00:55:28,152 --> 00:55:30,188
and there's a lot of
similarities between the two.

1659
00:55:30,223 --> 00:55:31,500
- I get that people
will still go like,

1660
00:55:31,535 --> 00:55:32,570
"Oh, well you're a
Formula One driver,

1661
00:55:32,605 --> 00:55:34,676
"how can you be an
environmentalist?

1662
00:55:34,710 --> 00:55:36,263
"How dare you even
talk about that?"

1663
00:55:36,298 --> 00:55:38,611
But it is something he
believes in very strongly.

1664
00:55:38,645 --> 00:55:40,889
It's something that he
educated himself about

1665
00:55:40,923 --> 00:55:42,304
relatively late in life.

1666
00:55:43,443 --> 00:55:47,378
- You see, I think it's
always been an issue

1667
00:55:47,413 --> 00:55:50,312
and I think what's been...

1668
00:55:50,347 --> 00:55:53,453
Does it mean they're
going to knock down trees?

1669
00:55:53,488 --> 00:55:55,628
Yeah, I mean, I'm not for that.

1670
00:55:55,662 --> 00:55:59,597
I think you've got such
a beautiful country here.

1671
00:55:59,632 --> 00:56:01,875
- He wants to leave an
environmental legacy.

1672
00:56:01,910 --> 00:56:04,637
He wants to leave a legacy

1673
00:56:04,671 --> 00:56:06,604
that transforms
not just the sport,

1674
00:56:06,639 --> 00:56:07,571
but the world.

1675
00:56:07,605 --> 00:56:08,951
- Honestly, there's
a lot of money

1676
00:56:08,986 --> 00:56:11,057
that goes into building
one of these circuits.

1677
00:56:11,091 --> 00:56:13,542
You already have a
historic circuit here.

1678
00:56:13,577 --> 00:56:14,888
It doesn't need to...

1679
00:56:14,923 --> 00:56:16,442
You don't need to cut any
more rainforests down.

1680
00:56:16,476 --> 00:56:18,754
You don't have to
damage any more land.

1681
00:56:18,789 --> 00:56:21,826
And I think the money could go

1682
00:56:21,861 --> 00:56:23,276
to a better cause here.

1683
00:56:23,310 --> 00:56:25,554
I think there's a lot more

1684
00:56:25,589 --> 00:56:26,797
the government can do
with the money here,

1685
00:56:26,831 --> 00:56:29,144
for the infrastructure
of this these cities.

1686
00:56:29,178 --> 00:56:33,182
You still have a lot of
poverty within Brazil.

1687
00:56:33,217 --> 00:56:34,114
Again, I always question,

1688
00:56:34,149 --> 00:56:35,737
why can't it be sooner?

1689
00:56:35,771 --> 00:56:37,014
Why do we have to wait

1690
00:56:37,048 --> 00:56:39,741
for 10 more years
of motor racing

1691
00:56:39,775 --> 00:56:41,639
for them to make the changes?

1692
00:56:41,674 --> 00:56:45,919
They've got the finances
to implicate it as sooner,

1693
00:56:45,954 --> 00:56:47,542
the technology is there
to make it sooner,

1694
00:56:47,576 --> 00:56:49,544
so why not?

1695
00:56:49,578 --> 00:56:51,718
- During the last news
conference of the day,

1696
00:56:51,753 --> 00:56:55,446
the human rights issue over
racing in Bahrain was, again,

1697
00:56:55,481 --> 00:56:56,896
a major talking point.

1698
00:56:56,930 --> 00:56:58,932
- Ahead of the Bahrain
Grand Prix in 2020,

1699
00:56:58,967 --> 00:57:00,969
a number of individuals
wrote to Hamilton

1700
00:57:01,003 --> 00:57:02,902
to ask him to use his platform

1701
00:57:02,936 --> 00:57:06,423
to basically show that there
were human rights abuses going

1702
00:57:06,457 --> 00:57:07,596
on in the country.

1703
00:57:07,631 --> 00:57:08,597
And there's a number of places

1704
00:57:08,632 --> 00:57:10,150
that Formula One races in

1705
00:57:10,185 --> 00:57:12,256
where there are questionable
human rights records.

1706
00:57:12,290 --> 00:57:13,809
And one thing Formula
One says it wants to do,

1707
00:57:13,844 --> 00:57:15,190
and it has a charter for this,

1708
00:57:15,224 --> 00:57:16,156
is to improve things,

1709
00:57:16,191 --> 00:57:17,088
is to help,

1710
00:57:17,123 --> 00:57:18,365
is to help educate people

1711
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,471
or just try and make
the situation better.

1712
00:57:20,506 --> 00:57:21,817
And Lewis came out and said

1713
00:57:21,852 --> 00:57:23,647
that having had these letters,

1714
00:57:23,681 --> 00:57:25,165
that he felt Formula
One wasn't doing enough,

1715
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:26,512
that it needed to be doing more.

1716
00:57:26,546 --> 00:57:27,961
And he wasn't
quite so forthright

1717
00:57:27,996 --> 00:57:30,101
in terms of saying
what needed to change,

1718
00:57:30,136 --> 00:57:32,000
but he did call out
the sport itself

1719
00:57:32,034 --> 00:57:33,277
for not doing enough,

1720
00:57:33,311 --> 00:57:34,658
even though it
said it wanted to.

1721
00:57:34,692 --> 00:57:36,453
At times, he's a
spokesperson for the sport.

1722
00:57:36,487 --> 00:57:37,937
He is the most popular driver,

1723
00:57:37,971 --> 00:57:39,214
the most successful driver,

1724
00:57:39,248 --> 00:57:40,767
so for him to come
out and say it meant

1725
00:57:40,802 --> 00:57:42,044
he knew people were
going to listen.

1726
00:57:42,079 --> 00:57:45,669
- It's the first time
I'd received letters

1727
00:57:45,703 --> 00:57:48,982
like that along my travels.

1728
00:57:50,087 --> 00:57:52,572
So I've taken, for the last...

1729
00:57:52,607 --> 00:57:53,677
The last few months,

1730
00:57:53,711 --> 00:57:56,542
taken time to try
and educate myself

1731
00:57:56,576 --> 00:57:58,854
because coming here,
all these years,

1732
00:57:58,889 --> 00:58:03,203
I wasn't aware of
all of the detail

1733
00:58:03,238 --> 00:58:04,722
of the human rights issues.

1734
00:58:04,757 --> 00:58:07,345
- It's sort of a
bit bittersweet.

1735
00:58:07,380 --> 00:58:10,072
The reason that Hamilton
originally hadn't went

1736
00:58:10,107 --> 00:58:13,041
beyond the sport was
because his place

1737
00:58:13,075 --> 00:58:15,733
within it was always
a bit contested,

1738
00:58:15,768 --> 00:58:17,701
and he wasn't necessarily
accepted fully

1739
00:58:17,735 --> 00:58:20,255
into its protective bubble.

1740
00:58:20,289 --> 00:58:24,535
But that has created
an extraordinary
star for Formula One,

1741
00:58:24,570 --> 00:58:26,744
and one that frankly, this sport

1742
00:58:26,779 --> 00:58:28,021
and the rest of us in it,

1743
00:58:28,056 --> 00:58:29,747
don't deserve a lot of the time.

1744
00:58:36,789 --> 00:58:38,618
- He's definitely
transcended the sport

1745
00:58:38,653 --> 00:58:40,551
because he's not just
about motor racing.

1746
00:58:40,586 --> 00:58:41,310
He's about fashion,

1747
00:58:41,345 --> 00:58:42,380
he's about music,

1748
00:58:42,415 --> 00:58:44,072
he's about political activism,

1749
00:58:44,106 --> 00:58:45,591
he's about veganism.

1750
00:58:45,625 --> 00:58:47,489
But he reaches out to
all sorts of people

1751
00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:49,595
in the same way that
Tiger Woods did;

1752
00:58:49,629 --> 00:58:51,942
a completely
different, new animal

1753
00:58:51,976 --> 00:58:53,495
in the world of sport.

1754
00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:55,117
It's the Tiger effect,
the Lewis effect.

1755
00:58:55,152 --> 00:58:56,429
People want to watch golf,

1756
00:58:56,463 --> 00:58:58,258
they want to get
involved in golf

1757
00:58:58,293 --> 00:58:59,536
because of Tiger Woods.

1758
00:58:59,570 --> 00:59:00,916
Likewise, it's the
same with Formula One.

1759
00:59:00,951 --> 00:59:02,780
They want to get involved
because of Lewis Hamilton.

1760
00:59:02,815 --> 00:59:04,402
And he's done it in a way

1761
00:59:04,437 --> 00:59:06,473
that makes it accessible
for more people.

1762
00:59:10,305 --> 00:59:12,549
- When Lewis talks about
his position in Formula One

1763
00:59:12,583 --> 00:59:13,688
and his future within the sport,

1764
00:59:13,722 --> 00:59:15,482
he now looks at it in
a very different way.

1765
00:59:15,517 --> 00:59:16,794
He's been very
open about the fact

1766
00:59:16,829 --> 00:59:18,313
that he wants to
change the sport

1767
00:59:18,347 --> 00:59:19,694
in terms of representation,

1768
00:59:19,728 --> 00:59:21,592
equality, opportunities,

1769
00:59:21,627 --> 00:59:23,870
and that he feels the best
place for him to do that is

1770
00:59:23,905 --> 00:59:25,320
if he is a driver in the car

1771
00:59:25,354 --> 00:59:27,080
and people are still
looking at him closely.

1772
00:59:27,115 --> 00:59:28,806
If he was on the
outside, just saying,

1773
00:59:28,841 --> 00:59:30,083
"Things need to change,"

1774
00:59:30,118 --> 00:59:31,740
but he wasn't part
of the sport anymore,

1775
00:59:31,775 --> 00:59:33,155
he doesn't feel like you'd
have such a big influence.

1776
00:59:33,190 --> 00:59:34,329
So he feels it's important that

1777
00:59:34,363 --> 00:59:35,572
if he wants to change the sport,

1778
00:59:35,606 --> 00:59:36,745
he needs to be the heart of it,

1779
00:59:36,780 --> 00:59:37,815
leading that change

1780
00:59:37,850 --> 00:59:38,954
- In, in all honesty,

1781
00:59:38,989 --> 00:59:41,750
I don't do it for recognition.

1782
00:59:41,785 --> 00:59:43,303
I trained my whole life.

1783
00:59:43,338 --> 00:59:44,995
I think the most
important people

1784
00:59:45,029 --> 00:59:46,790
when I got out of the race

1785
00:59:46,824 --> 00:59:48,792
and when I got home,

1786
00:59:48,826 --> 00:59:53,831
it's FaceTiming with my
sister, my brother, my mom,

1787
00:59:54,521 --> 00:59:56,109
and my niece and nephew,

1788
00:59:56,144 --> 00:59:57,663
that was like...

1789
00:59:57,697 --> 00:59:59,803
And speaking to my dad
and my stepmom, Linda.

1790
00:59:59,837 --> 01:00:02,081
Yes, I've won this seventh title

1791
01:00:02,115 --> 01:00:05,084
but we have another
big, big fight to win,

1792
01:00:05,118 --> 01:00:08,535
and that's for racial
equality across the board.

1793
01:00:08,570 --> 01:00:10,952
- I think it's very difficult to

1794
01:00:10,986 --> 01:00:12,781
necessarily explain
to some people

1795
01:00:12,816 --> 01:00:15,128
because to say that
Lewis Hamilton,

1796
01:00:15,163 --> 01:00:16,785
who is a multimillionaire,

1797
01:00:16,820 --> 01:00:18,511
who can effectively
do what he wants,

1798
01:00:18,545 --> 01:00:19,926
he can walk away
from his job tomorrow

1799
01:00:19,961 --> 01:00:21,825
and he can just do
whatever he likes,

1800
01:00:21,859 --> 01:00:23,792
is in any way oppressed

1801
01:00:23,827 --> 01:00:25,138
or has suffered oppression.

1802
01:00:25,173 --> 01:00:28,935
People find that very
hard to swallow as a fact,

1803
01:00:28,970 --> 01:00:30,212
but it is a fact.

1804
01:00:30,247 --> 01:00:31,524
- As a Formula One driver,

1805
01:00:31,558 --> 01:00:32,767
he's known around the world

1806
01:00:32,801 --> 01:00:35,355
for more than just
driving a racing car,

1807
01:00:35,390 --> 01:00:36,874
and he felt that
with that attention

1808
01:00:36,909 --> 01:00:38,220
and that platform,

1809
01:00:38,255 --> 01:00:39,774
he could really help
to change the world

1810
01:00:39,808 --> 01:00:41,223
in different ways
for the better.

1811
01:00:41,258 --> 01:00:42,708
- It's definitely been something

1812
01:00:42,742 --> 01:00:45,814
that Hamilton has
become more enthusiastic

1813
01:00:45,849 --> 01:00:46,815
about thinking about

1814
01:00:46,850 --> 01:00:50,232
over the latter
stage of his career.

1815
01:00:50,267 --> 01:00:53,373
If you look at a
completely white sport

1816
01:00:53,408 --> 01:00:54,892
and then look at the world,

1817
01:00:54,927 --> 01:00:56,998
and call it a "global sport,"

1818
01:00:57,032 --> 01:00:59,828
and think, "Oh, there's
nothing wrong with that."

1819
01:00:59,863 --> 01:01:01,450
No, that's completely incorrect.

1820
01:01:01,485 --> 01:01:03,211
There's an obvious
problem there.

1821
01:01:03,245 --> 01:01:07,146
What it's become is a Western
European touring facility.

1822
01:01:07,180 --> 01:01:09,424
- The sad fact is that he is

1823
01:01:09,458 --> 01:01:11,668
the only black
driver Formula One

1824
01:01:11,702 --> 01:01:13,014
and for the foreseeable future,

1825
01:01:13,048 --> 01:01:14,705
that will stay the case.

1826
01:01:14,740 --> 01:01:16,707
So in a sense, Formula One
and Motorsport generally has

1827
01:01:16,742 --> 01:01:17,984
still got a lot of work to do,

1828
01:01:18,019 --> 01:01:20,504
which is why his stance
and his performance

1829
01:01:20,538 --> 01:01:21,988
and his words in 2020

1830
01:01:22,023 --> 01:01:23,818
in the light of the
death of George Floyd

1831
01:01:23,852 --> 01:01:24,922
and everything that produced

1832
01:01:24,957 --> 01:01:26,993
around the world
was so significant

1833
01:01:27,028 --> 01:01:27,925
and so important.

1834
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:28,995
- He just wants to see

1835
01:01:29,030 --> 01:01:30,410
a wider range of
people being able

1836
01:01:30,445 --> 01:01:32,274
to get opportunities
within Formula One,

1837
01:01:32,309 --> 01:01:34,863
because at the moment it's
a very male-dominated sport.

1838
01:01:34,898 --> 01:01:36,347
- This research that
we're doing is trying

1839
01:01:36,382 --> 01:01:38,936
to understand why
there is a lack

1840
01:01:38,971 --> 01:01:43,113
of young black kids
applying to STEM subjects.

1841
01:01:43,147 --> 01:01:44,562
What are the barriers?

1842
01:01:44,597 --> 01:01:46,047
- I think we're going to
look back at Lewis Hamilton

1843
01:01:46,081 --> 01:01:48,256
as the greatest Formula
One driver we've ever seen,

1844
01:01:48,290 --> 01:01:49,740
and I think it will be beyond

1845
01:01:49,775 --> 01:01:51,742
just his racing abilities.

1846
01:01:51,777 --> 01:01:53,054
It will be his results,

1847
01:01:53,088 --> 01:01:54,400
it will be all the
records he holds,

1848
01:01:54,434 --> 01:01:56,367
but it will also be the fact
that he managed to do it

1849
01:01:56,402 --> 01:01:57,265
in a certain style,

1850
01:01:57,299 --> 01:01:58,956
he was entertaining to watch.

1851
01:01:58,991 --> 01:02:01,200
And he also forged his own path,

1852
01:02:01,234 --> 01:02:03,581
and then, off the track,
tried to change things

1853
01:02:03,616 --> 01:02:06,239
for the better in his
view, at the very least,

1854
01:02:06,274 --> 01:02:07,793
in the way that
the wider world is.

1855
01:02:07,827 --> 01:02:09,277
And I think for
someone to take that

1856
01:02:09,311 --> 01:02:10,623
all upon themselves,

1857
01:02:10,657 --> 01:02:11,900
and still be at the
top of their game,

1858
01:02:11,935 --> 01:02:14,627
and still be able to
produce the results he has,

1859
01:02:14,661 --> 01:02:15,904
is remarkable.

1860
01:02:15,939 --> 01:02:17,009
- Legacy is really
important, I think,

1861
01:02:17,043 --> 01:02:18,596
to Lewis Hamilton.

1862
01:02:18,631 --> 01:02:20,081
He said he's not motivated,

1863
01:02:20,115 --> 01:02:21,116
like Schumacher said,

1864
01:02:21,151 --> 01:02:24,016
about titles and records
and figures and so on,

1865
01:02:24,050 --> 01:02:25,534
and that's probably true.

1866
01:02:25,569 --> 01:02:30,091
But also, he is
driven by this desire

1867
01:02:30,125 --> 01:02:31,506
to open up Formula One,

1868
01:02:31,540 --> 01:02:32,783
to open up motorsport,

1869
01:02:32,818 --> 01:02:34,785
to make a difference
because otherwise,

1870
01:02:34,820 --> 01:02:36,614
if he can't do it, who can?

1871
01:02:36,649 --> 01:02:38,237
- But for me, growing up,

1872
01:02:39,169 --> 01:02:41,550
having people you see on TV

1873
01:02:41,585 --> 01:02:43,518
that could put a big
smile on your face.

1874
01:02:43,552 --> 01:02:45,140
For me, I never really imagined

1875
01:02:45,175 --> 01:02:46,659
that I'll be able to
do that to young kids.

1876
01:02:46,693 --> 01:02:49,489
- Hopefully I'll be racing
Formula One for McLaren.

1877
01:02:49,524 --> 01:02:52,803
Anything with an engine,
I really enjoy doing.

1878
01:02:52,838 --> 01:02:54,011
- All those years ago,

1879
01:02:54,046 --> 01:02:56,531
we were sitting in
the back of a trailer,

1880
01:02:56,565 --> 01:02:58,705
in a little cavalier
and everything,

1881
01:02:58,740 --> 01:03:01,225
we can never have imagined
being in here, [mumbles].

1882
01:03:02,502 --> 01:03:04,988
When you get in that
Formula One car,

1883
01:03:05,022 --> 01:03:06,058
everything just disappears

1884
01:03:06,092 --> 01:03:08,543
and it's the most
amazing thing ever.

1885
01:03:12,961 --> 01:03:14,825
It's a real pleasure to see

1886
01:03:14,860 --> 01:03:16,033
the smile on people's faces

1887
01:03:16,068 --> 01:03:18,035
and to have pictures
with everyone.

1888
01:03:19,209 --> 01:03:22,143
It's just a continuous,
almost, job,

1889
01:03:22,177 --> 01:03:24,317
trying to keep everyone happy

1890
01:03:24,352 --> 01:03:25,940
and you can't make
everyone happy,

1891
01:03:25,974 --> 01:03:28,252
and I want to try and live
as normal life as possible.

1892
01:03:30,841 --> 01:03:31,808
Going over it in my mind,

1893
01:03:31,842 --> 01:03:33,016
what's the best thing for me?

1894
01:03:33,050 --> 01:03:35,950
And it's just gotten
worse and worse,

1895
01:03:35,984 --> 01:03:37,986
obviously, because I've
got bigger and bigger.

1896
01:03:38,021 --> 01:03:38,918
It's quite unreal.

1897
01:03:41,990 --> 01:03:45,166
But everyone has a dream,

1898
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,996
and although I'm
living my dream still,

1899
01:03:48,031 --> 01:03:49,411
there's more dreams,

1900
01:03:49,446 --> 01:03:51,068
there's more ambitions.

1901
01:03:51,103 --> 01:03:54,071
So that will keep me gunning
for plenty of years to come.

1902
01:04:13,056 --> 01:04:15,541
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