Lewis Hamilton Avoids the Roads of California | The Jonathan Ross Show

he's on the verge of becoming the greatest british formula one driver of all time the amazing lewis hamilton come on out lewis hey congratulations hamilton i don't know if you guys knew this but if you follow formula one you'll know that uh he is the leader currently in the formula one world championships now you're 263 points at the moment seven race wins yep that's right uh you won your last one just a few days ago didn't you in singapore one amazing grand prix so are you still on the high from that do you get odd or is it all reserved until the very end when you know whether you come out on top not really i mean you're always on a high i mean it's the greatest job in the world for me i feel um it's dangerous isn't it it's a very dangerous dangerous thing so wow i mean first thing i gotta say i'm honored to be on stage oh no newest guys louise they should pay you more and you should get another pair of pants you would so let's talk about this singapore grand prix because this was uh well you can maybe talk to you started in the fifth position yeah right that's where you are when before the waste starts and uh often in formula one where you start that's where you finish yeah you know it's very hard i mean it's very hard to get up through those in there you've got a good government and yet uh and especially on that track as i understand it that's a tough challenge yeah it's one of the toughest it's a street circuit so one of the toughest uh tracks to ever take and that's kind of one of the criticisms people sometimes level up for me on and they say you know so you're first if i criticize it well you've had a lot of races where you're starting first and you're finishing first yeah and so it's like well why bother watching you know what i mean it's like i did i watched i grew up watching for once i used to actually wake up watch the start go to sleep and then wake up and hopefully see the end sometimes yeah particularly in the ferrari period when they were dominating for a long period of time so i do understand it if people have done that when you're about to drive and i have some experience of this you you rev you level up well because i i do uh i play a game called mario kart you rev it up but you have to do it not too much or she burns out doesn't it have you done that mario kart will you you don't you don't get the action yeah i still play america today yeah yeah which shell do you like to drop behind you red or green the red one of course it's the red one you know the red one doesn't go backwards it goes forwards you can send it backwards if you press the controller down damn it that's that's right that's what i missed i wish i hadn't told you that i was just about to challenge you to a match well i feel we've done the all we can with this interview now we'll discuss that okay so let me get the facts right you're now 28 points ahead of sebastian vettel yeah he's your closest rival there's no love lost between the two of you no no not really i mean ultimately i think it's important to respect people you're competing with and you know he's an incredible athlete um and one of the truly one of the best drivers we've seen in the sport so but it is great to have seen some of the weaknesses come through this year and and uh i'm grateful for the one of recent yeah and um so you're there to win no matter what i mean they're not no matter what not but i mean you know you you know i want to win because you want to win because you're the best you've worked hardest to do so that's the goal so who do you see as your your main the main threat to your assassin so is sebastian yeah now who's the new guy on your team who's the guy you're wasting with um valtteri finished guy now he's on your team and correct me home but you don't even seem to like him it's an unusual scenario in formula because you you're in a team and you're supposed to be teammates however there's two two championships there's one championship of the drivers one you want to win and the other guy wants to stab you in the back if anything so you're working together and you're working against each other so you're in conflict a lot of the time but as long as you keep responding sounds like hollywood it's it's good you know and he wants to win the right way and vice versa that's why we get one as well as we do who is the i don't know what the technical term forming on is but who's the biggest i think that's the phrase that's a good question there's so many he can't even choose very good it's quite a few who would you say you you watch only occasionally oh i would say probably a german now here's something i don't get to say often enough you have a very strong neck you need guys did you know this you need a super strong neck i have no idea why well ask lewis lewis louis why do you need a strong neck to race your car well it's not what he he would be insinuating well what was i insinuating oh no yes but no you why don't you insinuation because you know he always reverses okay so but you need it for the g-force don't you for well i mean we were like jockeys kind of but um there's a lot of g-force in our car and so it's really about having core stability and and um yeah your neck basically when you go through these corners you pull oh five to six times your body weight so you can and you can feel it when you turn it's it's like yeah someone's sitting on you it's crazy so that's so you don't have i mean you just you get accustomed to it you know and you work towards it i just wanna get accustomed to five or six people sitting on you also [Applause] oh and i'm the one talking about sex on you how'd you like it uh now here's uh the thing i've spoken to a few times over the years and currently uh and if this is too personal please tell me that you're single again at the moment you're a single guy now are you involving them at the moment are you because there's gossip and rumors out there yeah there's always there always is um no honestly just super focused of course occasional date here and there but just trying to win the championship i have a lot of projects that i'm working on as well there's a very good chance and i know you're hopeful that you will win i'm going to be hopeful i'm working towards it you're working towards just gonna work towards it uh and yet how old are you now 32 and so often people retire even younger than than you are right now i mean people too often oh well someone did but um not too often i mean you try and go as long as you can and it's not it's not a sport you can go back to you know no but it's something as well i guess you have to choose the right time to step out because you you know the reaction times you need and the strength you need uh the neck yeah the neck once that goes because it goes the mess will follow exactly what are your plans in terms of do you have a game plan do you have because i get the feeling you're a fairly thoughtful young man when it comes to planning things out and knowing what you're doing yeah well i i'd say he's brave i wouldn't say thoughtful look at his jacket in his pants but he's great i mean he's courageous but you don't want to see someone going on too long well you don't want to see somebody dressed like that every day no but i i have um you know what i'm saying because mel me you can still do comedy at 91 as you have to conversation i actually have a uh you would like a porsche a porsche no but i do i do i'm every every year i'm always assessing kind of the plan and where you should be yeah well you know if you look at all the formula one drivers in the past you know generally they stop and there's not there's you know when you're in form one you're in the spotlight you're at the top of the world and then it's kind of downhill kind of from there on you know you don't own the same money uh there's not a huge amount of opportunities because you've been in that world for so long i've been there since i was eight so but me at the moment these past five six years have really been trying to work on what i enjoy outside of the sport so that when i stop i stop and i can walk away and have other things to go but you have no plans to retire at the moment of course no no i mean there's been talks about it and i've definitely thought about it and there's definitely times where i thought you know there's other things i want to do but then we're in the heat this battle right now i'm loving it more than ever you know the training every all the work when all the work that you put into something and then you get to really show your abilities it's the greatest feeling ever so like i'm going to keep going for as long as i can and see what can be yeah that's why you're number one you

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Length: 9min 17sec (557 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 31 2021