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Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he let his emotions get the better of him for once after securing his seventh Formula 1 world title.
After Hamilton took the checkered flag at the end of a chaotic Turkish Grand Prix, his voice was filled with emotion as he spoke, and after entering the parc fermé, his body visibly swayed as he sobbed behind his visor.
After finally pulling himself together, Hamilton finally got out of the cockpit of his Mercedes and for once took off his helmet that allowed people to see that his eyes were red from crying.
Explaining why he broke down this time, the 35-year-old said: “Very rarely do I lose control of my emotions.
“I think those last laps, I remember those last laps and we are obviously having a discussion about whether we are going to pit.
“I was just saying to myself ‘Keep it together Lewis, you’ve got this.’ I could feel him coming closer, knowing that if he ended up where he was, he would get this championship, so all these emotions were going through me.
“I was trying to stop it because I was thinking about my whole career, since I was five years old, when I drove the kart, winning our first British championship, driving home with my dad, singing ‘We are the champions’ and dreaming of being here, it’s right there, minutes away and that was a lot to take in.
“When I crossed the line, it really hit me and I started crying, all that lap, and then I couldn’t get out of the car because I couldn’t believe it.”
Acknowledging the role his entire family has played in his remarkable journey, Hamilton added: “For me, I have been very strong, but I could not have done it without the great man behind me, my dad, who, in the days when I thought that it wasn’t good enough or it wasn’t going to do it well enough, it stood me up and kept me going.
“So I was thinking of him, I was thinking of my mother, I was thinking of my stepmother Linda, my brother, who was by my side through thick and thin.
“I didn’t want the visor to come up and people see the tears flow and all that because I had always said that I would never let you see me cry.
“I remember seeing other drivers cry in the past and I was like ‘I’m not going to do that,’ but it was too much.”
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