Lewis Hamilton has admitted he feared he might never win again and suffered mental health issues as he endured over two years without a Formula One win
Lewis Hamilton has admitted that he feared he might never win again and suffered mental health issues as he endured over two years without a Formula One win, ending the drought at the, his first victory since Saudi Arabia in 2021, a two-year period during which his Mercedes team have struggled to challenge, and the 39-year-old was in tears after crossing the line as the import of the achievement hit home.
The seven-time world champion revealed afterwards it had been a very difficult time to navigate. “With the adversity we’ve gone through as a team, and that I personally felt that I’ve experienced, those challenges, the constant challenge like we all have to get up out of bed every day and give it our best shot, there are so many times when you feel like your best shot is not good enough,” he said.
The end to the win drought was earned on pace and strategy at Silverstone and rightly celebrated by Mercedes, with Hamilton admitting he had never been reduced to tears by a finish before. “To have this feeling coming across the line, honestly, I’ve never cried coming from a win,” he said. “It just came out of me. It’s a really, really great feeling. I’m very, very grateful for it.”in what the FIA admitted had been a human error by the race director Michael Masi and that recovering from that blow had played its part in his mental struggle over the past two seasons.“Honestly when I came back in 2022, I thought that I was over it, and I know I wasn’t,” he said.
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