B/R Exclusive: Lewis Hamilton on Titles, the Future and Why He’s Driving Better

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Published: October 23, 2015

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Lewis Hamilton is within touching distance of his third Formula One world championship title. He heads into the 2015 United States Grand Prix 66 points clear of nearest rival Sebastian Vettel and 73 ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.

If he's 75 or more points ahead of both after Sunday's race, the title will be his for the second year in a row.

It seems the whole F1 world is thinking about the result he needs—but speaking in an exclusive interview with Bleacher Report, courtesy of Mercedes partner Epson, Hamilton insists he's looking at it from a different perspective.

"I'm close? I don't really know," he mused. "People have been talking about what I've got to do in order to do it, and I'm not really taking any notice of it to be honest."

"We've got four races to go, so for me what's most important is that I want to win the championship, of course, but I'm not in a hurry as such—as long as by the time I come across the line in Abu Dhabi [the final race] I've won, that's all I want."



A third world title would see Hamilton match the achievement of his childhood idol, the great Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna.

He equalled Senna's tally of 41 race wins at the Japanese Grand Prix this year (victory in Russia took him past that mark), and we asked if the thought that he may soon have the same number of world championships was playing on his mind in the run up to the United States Grand Prix.

"It isn't, but I'm sure if I do...my goal was always to get to Formula One, to do something similar to Ayrton. And then I won the first championship, and..."



"The way I am, the way I'm built, I'm like, 'I'm grateful for what I have, and if it's the only one I get—because with F1 you have to be in the right car as well—I'm just grateful for the one I have, because not many people get to have that,'" he added.

"Then I got my second, and ...
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