Having just read an article in which Lewis Hamilton is complaining of Burnout due to the amount of corporate/sponser events he has to attend I cannot help but laugh at the guy. Who does he think contributes to his vastly overated salery, does he think Mclaren simply carve of a branch or two from the money tree at the back of the factory! The sponser related events are all part of the modern formula one drivers duties, surely Hamilton must understand that. I wonder how the average guy in the street manages a 40 or 50 hour working week in a factory etc without suffering burnout?! The guy is all quite simply take take take, I never heard Michael Schumacher during his Ferrari years complain about such trivial things as sponser days, as he understood the bigger picture as to who actually funded his huge salery, and the huge cost of running an F1 team such as Ferrari or Mclaren. Perhaps Mclaren could offer Lewis Pay as you play contract to stop the poor thing from a total burnout, or maybe Lewis should heed the old saying " if you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" as there are many more equally or more quicker guys out there just waiting for their chance!
welcome to the forum STG. This puzzles me as what happened to 'Lewis Hamilton the brand'? And surely his management team is based around this area with no experiance of the actual F1 side so it begs me to ask what was he thinking if he cant hack it? Get a proper manager and focus on F1!
Hamilton is beginning to sound and act like a petulant kid. If you dont give me the fastest car im off, I want this I dont want that, seems to be his stock phrases. To be considered a true F1 great a driver must be able to win on a reasonably regular basis with or without the fastest equipment, ie Senna and Schumacher. Simply relying on having a faster car than the next guy in order to win does not make a truely great F1 Driver!
he doesnt want the fastest car,just one that can compete with redbull.button also wants the same thing.but its only a problem when lewis wants it right? further more you obviously havnt seen how busy his schedule is have you,this is the reason why your whinging like a petulant kid.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mo...atigued-from-burden-of-McLaren-PR-duties.html in that article it sais BOTH lewis and jenson complained about felling drained.
Lewis Hamilton the brand? I think he was told a while back that he could/should be the new Beckham but I don't think he likes the reality of what that would mean in terms of whoring himself 24/7/52. But I can't really blame him for being seduced by the idea and I doubt that any of us on here have a clue of what his day-to-day life is like but, like you, I find the idea of 'pop star' management a strange one even though Simon Fuller also manages Andy Murray.
well maybe Lewis and Jenson need to man up a little then. Like I said maybe Lewis should consider his hectic lifestyle in comparison to Joe Bloggs working a fifty hour week without the benifit of a multi-million Pound pay cheque at the end. Lewis needs to step back into the real world for a moment or two, and think about these statements hes coming out with, and then think about all his many fans who most probably are nearer to burnout from their mundane jobs, but still manage to cough up for their tickets to watch him, and still manage to cough up for the merchandise that enables him to have such a fantastic wage.
just like 606 again......... I bet Joe Bloggs has a lot more 'home time' than Lewis does. It may sound like a glamorous life, but being dragged from event to event, taxi to plane to taxi to hotel to plane would take it out of you, and then you still have to find time for fitness training, some kind of normal life, factory work and then you still have to race the cars as well. McLaren are known task-masters when it comes to PR work, after all that was one of the main reasons Raikkonen left. I have little sympathy as he does earn a good wage, but why does he not have the right to complain about certain aspects of his job, just like everyone else does?
Of course he has the right to moan, but at the end of the day Uncle Ron and Mclaren put Hamilton where he is now by providing him with the very best and fastest equipment through every junior formula! Maybe Mclaren just see the workload Lewis has now as a little payback. as for the hometime issue, a formula one driver will probably drive up to the age of say mid thirties max, with a few exeptions of course, and then be able to kick back and enjoy life with the many millions in the bank, whereas Joe Blogs can look forward to working till 70 and crumby pension then to live on! I would suggest to Lewis the option is there to just simply quit if he doesnt like it, there are many many other equally as good drivers out there just waiting to take his place!
To be fair, the amount of PR stuff not just race drivers do but most sportspeople have to do in the last few years has greatly increased. A colleague of mine deals with contract laws for such people and it is estimated that some sports persons are spending only 4% of their work time directly involved in their core sport. When Schumacher was in his prime there wasn't anywhere near as much demand for a sports persons time. Complaining about being forced in to a trip to India and back in one day for a promo shoot just before your home GP, with people just waiting for you to make the slightest of mistakes in a sport where an error can mean life or death, I would say has pretty good grounds. If you've ever had the chance to sit and talk in person to any of the F1 drivers without journalists feeding them loaded questions or PR staff to hold them back, you would find they are pretty normal people who for the most are pretty nice guys.
These guys live in the lap of luxury and should give something back for it, if they don't want the sponsors cash then don't take the job!
Give something back? They risk their lives every weekend to entertain us, what more do you want? I though people on here were entertained my motorsport not photo shoots for watches!
Bob Bobbins they could be slaving away in **** jobs like most of the population, really my heart bleeds for them that they don't want to earn their millions.
Pretty much, I don't know the truth of this story but I can't see how anybody as privileged as an F1 driver could complain about the workload, especially when you see pictures in the press of them on holiday between races.
Id just be happy if he stopped crashing into people trying to overtake him and then stop using fanbase and media pressure to manipulate the stewards into letting him off scot free
I think Lewis needs to do what his dad did and work three jobs or more, he doesn't know how lucky he is. I've not seen any other drivers complaining like this. Maybe he should let Paffett have a go in the Mclaren if the workload is too much for him.
Privileged is hardly appropriate, most of these drivers commited themselves to the sport at very young ages, for everyone that makes it dozens will not. They risked their lives to get to where they are and entertain 100's of millions of people every other weekend and honed their skills to the point where they are in the top 24 in the world at their profession. If you have a problem with their earnings then don't watch the sport and contribute to it.
Let me be clearer then. The joke is in reference to the people who think they have the right to criticise Hamilton over this. So, mainly you NICK HCAFC and schueysthegreatest. I do not think anyone has a remote idea of how hard these guys work to achieve what they do. Then drop on massive sponsor commitments and it will take it's toll. Jenson Button has complained of the same issue at Mclaren, not just Lewis. The Mclaren driver's schedules are far busier than any of the other top drivers, including Alonso and Vettel. The whole thread is probably just a WUM attempt and I am biting... om nom nom nom
