
Critics should get off Hamilton's back
What Lewis Hamilton gets up to away from the Formula 1 circuit is not to everybody's taste, but IAN PARKES argues that he's just enjoying himself and not afraid to show it
So which type of Formula 1 driver do your prefer? The clean-cut, keeps-himself-to-himself family man like Sebastian Vettel, or your high-profile, barely-out-of-the-headlines 'playboy' like Lewis Hamilton?
I can appreciate to the average petrolhead what a driver gets up to away from a racetrack is of zero concern, and all that matters is what he does from Friday to Sunday of a grand prix weekend.
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