Monte Carlo (AP) – Lewis Hamilton is far from finished. The seven-time Formula 1 world champion is not lacking in motivation. Memories of the teenage years help the now 37-year-old Briton.
“When I was 15, I fell off my bike and injured my wrist,” wrote the Mercedes star on Instagram before the Formula 1 classic in Monaco. Because the pain was so great, he went to the hospital the next day. The diagnosis: fracture. Gypsum was needed. But because Hamilton had just started with European Formula A and didn’t want to jeopardize his contract with McLaren, “I did what had to be done”.
The cast came off, a lighter bandage around the injured wrist. “I won the championship,” wrote Hamilton. “Ever since then, I’ve known that I can get through anything if I fight for it.” That applies to the broken wrist as well as to his race to catch up last weekend in Barcelona when he crashed from the back after an early collision to fifth place in the Silver Arrow.
“Fight for what you want. You’ll get it,” he wrote. Without a doubt, this can also be understood as a challenge to World Championship leader Max Verstappen in the Red Bull and also his currently worst rival Charles Leclerc from Ferrari. Before the classic in the Principality, Hamilton is only sixth in the standings. He scored 46 points. Verstappen in first place and Leclerc in second place have 110 and 104 points.