Hamilton will ride a MotoGP: “It’s 100% sure”

We knew that last December Lewis Hamilton tested a Yamaha YZF-R1 World Superbike at Jerez and had suffered a small fall, but what we didn't know was that he had forgotten to warn his boss. That's what Toto wolff revealed not without humor in Melbourne during the FIA ​​press conference. “I couldn't reach him, nor could our strategy manager and one of the race engineers, he confided. Pno one answered the phone! And I ended up discovering that all these little people were riding motorcycles! »

If the boss confessed that he obviously feared that his pilot would be injured while practicing certain potentially dangerous hobbies, he did not assure that he had no concerns regarding possible perverse effects. “Lewis is no longer a young man of 18 or 19, he continued. He is a five-time world champion. He knows exactly what works for him and what doesn't. All these side activities do not constitute, in my opinion, a distraction.

Some are hobbies like sports, while others are more passions like fashion. Every time he takes a trip to one area or another, he always comes back stronger. Some people do meditation seminars in India, he goes skydiving. You have to accept people as they are. »

Lewis, for his part, continues to cherish the dream of'a test in MotoGP. “I'm going to drive one, that's 100% sure, he repeated in Melbourne. I just need to ride more. It's a dream that I want to realize. I watch all the races. Even when I’m on a Grand Prix weekend, I quickly leave my briefings to sit in front of a screen”. Be careful though...