article_snippet.sent: The last two weeks have showcased all that is best about Lewis Hamilton.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton has driven supremely well, gaining the congratulations of the man Lewis Hamilton hopes to emulate as a triple world champion, Sir Jackie Stewart.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton could do considerably worse than learn a few things from and about Sir Jackie.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton probably will not want to hear it, judging by how Lewis Hamilton has previously dismissed Sir Jackie’s opinions, honestly given when sought as a pundit who speaks with all the authority of the most successful British Formula One driver in history.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton said grouchily, that Lewis Hamilton was disappointed ex-drivers were not being more supportive, as if blind adoration was his birthright.
article_snippet.sent: Here are just a few reasons why Lewis Hamilton should listen to Sir Jackie.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton drove in an era when a driver racing for five years had a two in three chance of dying.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton changed that through tireless campaigning for safety measures to save not only drivers but spectators from preventable injuries.
article_snippet.sent: And then there is Lewis Hamilton charitable work for a children’s club in the east end of London, for mechanics fallen on hard times, and dyslexia societies.
article_snippet.sent: There is also Lewis Hamilton considerable contribution to British industry over more than 40 years.
article_snippet.sent: A perfectionist, Lewis Hamilton will quietly remove a hair of your lapel as Lewis Hamilton speaks to you.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton is not without ego, but conducts Lewis Hamilton with decorum.
article_snippet.sent: I wish Lewis Hamilton could show a little bit humility towards the past.
article_snippet.sent: That Lewis Hamilton could see that Formula One history did not start with Ayrton Senna.
article_snippet.sent: If Lewis Hamilton could start to appreciate some of the wider picture Lewis Hamilton might find Lewis Hamilton more widely liked.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton might not spray champagne into the face of a girl on the podium as Lewis Hamilton did in China last week – hardly a hanging offence but, given that Stewart could not respond, an inconsiderate act and an ungallant one.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton might not gracelessly sulk, as Lewis Hamilton did most memorably at Monaco last year to Stewart’s stated chagrin, when Lewis Hamilton is beaten.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton might not be as surly as Lewis Hamilton can be at press conferences.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton might not turn up rudely late to engineering meetings.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton might not shun advice freely given by greats of Lewis Hamilton sport who speak candidly and without malice.
highlights_snippet.sent: And Lewis Hamilton could do worse than learn a few things from the great Scot .