Lewis Hamilton was told by his father to snub Mercedes and stay with McLaren, the Brit has revealed.
After his first couple of seasons in Formula 1, the world was at Hamilton's feet. As a rookie he came with one point of the title and matched team-mate Fernando Alonso. And he wrote his name in the history books as a sophomore in 2008 with that last-gasp success over Felipe Massa.
For a while after that, though, his career trajectory did not quite take off as expected. McLaren's fortunes began to decline and Hamilton was not getting the opportunities that he wanted to win more titles.
