Lewis Hamilton’s Growth in Maturity Is Clear Despite 2014 Brazilian GP Defeat

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Published: November 10, 2014

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Even before the start of the 2014 Formula One season, it was widely thought that the only man who could beat Lewis Hamilton to this year's world championship would be himself.

His Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg, was considered a highly competent racing driver, a worthy grand prix winner and more than capable of stringing together a stern title challenge—but someone who Hamilton should ultimately dispose of if he had any ambitions of cementing his place as a true great of the sport.

The destiny of the crown, then, always hinged upon just how Hamilton—perhaps the most emotional driver on the grid—would react, both on and off-track, whenever things went against him.



Would he shroud himself in self-pity, make mistakes in a desire to compensate and compound it all by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time? Or would he accept the moments of defeat magnanimously in the knowledge that he would emerge victorious in the end? 

It seemed as though Hamilton was reverting to the dark days of 2011, the year of his self-implosion, around the mid-season mark, when he began to make a series of bizarre statements.

Prior to the Monaco Grand Prix, he told the official Formula One website that because he grew tall on the streets of Stevenage, whereas Rosberg, the son of 1982 world champion Keke, was surrounded by "jets and hotels and boats and all these kind of things" as a youngster, Hamilton's "hunger" to win the title was somehow more extreme.



That very weekend, Hamilton—hidden behind a snarl, a pair of super-sized sunglasses and a series of short, snappy answers—reacted poorly to Rosberg's controversial mistake in qualifying, before telling Sky Sports' Pete Gill the following day, "We are not friends," reducing a sporting rivalry to a playground scuffle.  

Less than two months later, the 2008 world champion made another jibe at his ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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