Lewis Hamilton's Intense Weight Loss During Formula One | The Graham Norton Show

these cars obviously they're amazing and they're so super designed and high-tech you said a picture of the steering wheel in your car first of all it doesn't look like a steering wheel so that's the spirit so you hold on to that bit in that bit when I joined this team I joined Mercedes seven years ago and when I came everything is about weight you know you want to get the weight as low as possible you want to make you know the suit is as light as it can be the boots are the helmet everything and I redesigned the steering more when I got there so it's the one thing that particularly I can have quite a hands-on you know opinion on and help design so all the buttons where they are I helped all of that and do you win it Tetris when you play but what amazes me about this I'll slow you down if I was in the car without weight difference me in the front 13 stone yeah so I'd be screaming and crying but the weird thing about this you look at all this high-tech high-tech high-tech high-tech none of these buttons operate air conditioning no multi-millionaire driving he deserves a see why don't you have I wish I did why don't you have air conditioning is it's all about weight so you have to get rid of that there was never a see and [Music] it's very breezy speeds you know 10 kilos of fuel in the car cost three tenths of a second every circuit or lap so if I'm a kilo overweight I can lose up to two seconds in the race distance so my weight is very important and also during the way I lose up to four kilos in the race in an hour and 45 minutes yeah but this is because it gets so hot isn't it so if you're in Singapore or Malaysia or something yeah those ones that killer but also because it's just incredibly physical yeah and the g-force that we pull when you go there mean the things like on Rails so when you're doing 150 180 miles an hour and you turn the thing turns and your body wants to go the opposite way so you have to have a really good core stability you can't be big and bulky if you have your weight you know if I was super Musti up here my weight would be too high so to do lots of squats from abut okay so to your driving weight yes okay yes so actually so each year the car is built to a certain weight but at the beginning the year is heavy so they were they asked me to be a certain weight so a little bit lighter than normal but then the car goes through a weight saving process through the year and but yeah I think what I though what can you take away if it's why do you if the cars do heavy yeah well they'll take you know components off so if I'm if yeah if the car is overweight they'll just take certain devices off the car which you know give the bike one second what is the g-force that you pull up to six times your body house tax jeez that's crazy [Music] you

Channel: The Graham Norton Show

Views: 2,297,996

Rating: 4.9037786 out of 5

Keywords: Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show, Graham Norton Funniest Moments, Graham Norton Funny, Graham Norton 2019, Graham Norton new season, Graham Norton new series, Graham Norton best moments, lewis hamilton, lewis hamilton graham norton, lewis hamilton highlights, lewis hamilton interview, lewis hamilton f1, f1 2019, f1, formula 1, formula one, weight loss, weight loss workout, weight loss journey, workout, workout routines

Id: jBx3843DI8I

Length: 3min 33sec (213 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 25 2019