How you achieve your victories is important, says Hamilton. He wants to be the cleanest driver in the field

I want to be the cleanest driver on the grid, says Lewis Hamilton. In an interview with Motorsport, he reminds us that it’s not just the winning that matters, but how one achieves his success. Do you agree with him? And why did he come up with this statement in the first place?

The battle for the world championship is at its peak and Hamilton’s words make it abundantly clear that it’s not just winning that’s important, but also how he achieves his victories. In a wide-ranging interview with select media, including Motorsport, he said that keeping a clean sheet is something he values immensely.

However, according to him, many other greats of the sport do not follow this mantra. But why has Hamilton come out with this statement now? The reason is quite simple. The seven-time world champion doesn’t want his titles, or indeed his success, to be questioned in any way in the future.

“I was bullied as a child, both at school and at races. We always wanted to beat everyone the right way. Certainly not in the way that one driver retires or in a collision,” Hamilton said in an interview with Motorsport.

“If the cars collide, people can say, ‘well, yeah, but this happened and this happened, that’s the driver’s tactic,'” he adds.

“I want to be the cleanest of all the drivers, and I want to do that through speed, hard work and determination. In the end, there would be no questioning what I have done,” he concluded.

The fact is that the collision with Max Verstappen, which took place at Monza in Italy, was more the fault of both parties. However, the accident at Silverstone was blamed on Hamilton, not only by the spectators, but also by many experts.

The British driver has even been compared by some fans on social media to Michael Schumacher, who in the past has helped himself to manoeuvres that do not suit the queen of motorsport. However, objectively speaking, Schumacher’s collision with Daymon Hill is still a long way off.

Source: Motorsport