Hamilton not a fan of Formula E: “I miss the sound”

“I think you can still have fun with electric cars,” he told Sport Bild before the Grand Prix on Sunday in Baku (14.10:XNUMX p.m.): “But I am very sure that - if we go in this direction - they will The basic essence of motorsport is lost.”

“The infernal roar of Schumacher’s ten-cylinder engine was cool” Lewis Hamilton The topic is okay for the “new generation of kids,” said Hamilton: “They don’t know the good old smell from before. And not the crazy sound of the ten-cylinder engines, for example." He was in Spa in 1996 as an eleven-year-old boy, "and I heard the infernal roar of Michael Schumacher's ten-cylinder engine. That was so cool.”

It was even one of the most formative moments in his life. “That’s why I became a Formula 1 driver,” said Hamilton. You don't hear something like that in Formula E, but: “People always need emotions, touch, smells, sound. Of course you don’t have them there anymore.” Hamilton sees Ferrari on an equal footing Despite his five world championship titles and his 75 Grand Prix victories to date, Mercedes driver Hamilton by no means describes himself as perfect. “The truth is that it is imperfection that makes you strong and sets us apart,” he said. For example, he has “already made a thousand starts in his career, and yet I blew him in Bahrain.” But he always has “this strong belief in me to never give up.”

Hamilton left unanswered whether the team-internal duel between the two Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc would play into his and Mercedes' hands this year: “It's difficult to say. All I know is: I have to fight against two drivers and focus on doing my best because both are very fast.” Hamilton definitely sees Ferrari as equals: “Ferrari has a good car. They just don’t get everything out of him yet.”

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Hamilton not a fan of Formula E: “I miss the sound”

Five-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is not a big fan of the Formula E electric series, according to an interview before the Baku Grand Prix.

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