'As F1 racing abandons its historic roots, it’s good to see Lewis Hamilton acknowledging tradition'

As Lewis Hamilton clinches his seventh title, we look back at our prescient 2002 interview with the future F1 starLewis Hamilton, I’m told, is no student of F1 history. Few F1 drivers are. Sebastian Vettel was knowledgeable; he even owns an ex-Mansell Williams FW14B. Of the current drivers, George Russell and outgoing Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz are, my F1 friends say, the best of an uninterested bunch.

And that’s fine. Few elite athletes are connoisseurs of their chosen sports. I, on the other hand, can name every F1 champion and have been able to do so since I was 12. I can tell you José Froilán González won at Silverstone in 1951 and Surtees won the 1964 title in Mexi- co after team-mate Lorenzo Bandini took out Graham Hill’s BRM.

And hooray to that. As F1 racing abandons its historic roots for soulless circuits in the Middle East, Middle America and Asia, it’s good to see Lewis acknowledging tradition.Hamilton is not the first former champ to be lured by the romance of red. Prost, Schumacher, Alonso and Vettel all made the same move, but only Schumacher succeeding in bagging more titles. Prost, Alonso and Vettel all won races for Ferrari but never a world championship.

Four weeks after Ferrari driver Luigi Musso died after crashing in France, Collins was killed at the Nürburgring. He ran off the track while dicing for the lead, after entering the tricky Pflanzgarten a touch too quickly and slightly off-line. In those days, high-speed mistakes meant either lucky escapes or tragedy. As another English driver and future Ferrari man Tony Brooks put it: ‘Sometimes we got away with it and sometimes we didn’t.

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