Lewis Hamilton, the emotional end of a golden era with Mercedes

On the Abu Dhabi stage, Lewis made Hamilton, without ever betraying himself. Blocked in Q1 by the fault of a traffic cone stuck under his car and forced to start 16th in the race, the Briton could have simply disappeared into the night of Yas Marina. There would have been no explosion of light in the sky, no smoking donuts on the track, no rumbling in the stands. An end like a damp squib! This start in the anonymity of the pack, no one wanted it. Especially not him, who had shown himself to be faster than his teammate George Russell during the free practice sessions and who, suddenly, found himself hampered. The couple that Hamilton had formed for 246 Grands Prix with Toto wolff had r�