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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rebecca Nicholson

Lewis Hamilton, the world’s fastest driver, is right, motoring’s no fun any more

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton: ‘I just think that I find it stressful.’ Photograph: Lisa Leutner/Reuters

It’s like Gordon Ramsay claiming to hate kitchens or Elon Musk declaring that he doesn’t get any pleasure from winding people up: racing driver Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he doesn’t like driving all that much.

Discussing normal-person trips in the car, the sort that do not take place at 200mph, unless you’re desperately trying to get to a drive-through before the breakfast menu finishes, Hamilton told Vanity Fair that he rarely chooses to do it. “I just think that I find it stressful,” he said. “I try not to do things that don’t add to my life”, an explanation I plan to try out in the next few days whenever it is my turn to wash up, vacuum or put out the bins.

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