Lewis Hamilton: A Menace On-and Now Off-the Track

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Published: March 27, 2010

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By now, we’re all used to Lewis Hamilton acting like a tool on the racetrack. He already has a litany of on-track cock-ups on his CV, more than most drivers manage to amass in an entire career.

Now, however, Lewis has taken his penchant for automotive brain-farts out onto a public street, outside of the Albert Park racetrack in Melbourne, Australia.

In full view of a police car, Lewis had the brilliant idea to smoke up his tyres and fishtail down the road in his sponsor-provided Mercedes—although there's apparently no truth to the rumour that Nicole Scherzinger was chasing him with a golf club.

Mr. Plod, as you might expect, took a rather dim view of this and we have been treated to sight of a chastened Lewis sitting in a police car, while his sponsor’s car is impounded under the Victorian anti-hoon (rev-head) driving laws.

While there is no chance that Lewis would have lost control of the car, the message that it sends to the millions of idiots who would line up to emulate him is probably not a good one. He obviously didn’t think it all the way through.

Then again, thinking things through has never been Lewis’s strong suit.

Looking back to 2007, we first got the idea that Lewis wasn’t one of the planet’s great minds. After a tremendous start to the season, he dropped his team in the poo by publicly complaining about team orders, something that the FIA frown upon.

In Japan he was accused of erratic driving behind the pace car that resulted in the crash of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel.

Hamilton could have clinched the 2007 championship in China, but managed to beach the car in a gravel trap on the entrance to pit lane. Despite that, his lead in the championship was such that any kind of decent points finish would have seen him claim the title in the final race.

History tells us that he made more errors and finished the race in the highest position possible to ...
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