Interview: Hamilton on his future and his biggest challenge
He'll be 36 before the next Formula 1 season begins, but Lewis Hamilton remains determined to carry on improving as a human being as well as a driver. As he explains to Alex Kalinauckas, he feels like his work has only just begun....
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Before the 2020 Formula 1 season even got underway, Lewis Hamilton explained that winning the title in this year of years would mean more to him than those which have come before.
It's not just the COVID-19 pandemic, the results of which mean Hamilton has won brand new events on a vastly different calendar to the original and usual F1 schedule.
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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.
A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.
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