What if Lewis Hamilton changed his name soon?

This is news that we did not expect, especially a few days before the start of the season. F1 2022! Invited to speak in front of a few hundred spectators at the Dubai World Expo this Monday, Lewis Hamilton confided that he was seriously thinking about changing his last name, or rather completing it, by adding his mother's last name: Larbalestier, Carmen from his first name.

“It would mean a lot to my family, Lewis Hamilton confided to his interlocutor during the Dubai World Expo. It would mean a lot to me, I'm really proud of my family's name, Hamilton. And finally, none of you know that my mother's name is Larbalestier and I'm about to add it to my name.

Because I don't really understand the idea that when people get married, the woman loses her name. And my mother, I really want her name to continue [with] the name Hamilton. »

Born in Stevenage, located north of London, Lewis Hamilton grew up in a separate family, between his mother, Carmen Larbalestier, and on the other, his father Anthony Hamilton, who gave birth to his son a few years later. half-brother Nicolas, very close to the British pilot. A change that could occur very soon, since the pilot of Mercedes “hopefully it will be soon, I don’t know if it will be this weekend, but we are working on it.”