“It’s not the most important thing for me”- Lewis Hamilton on being regarded as GOAT

Tanish Chachra | 16/10/2020
“It’s not the most important thing for me"- Lewis Hamilton on being regarded as GOAT

“It’s not the most important thing for me”- Lewis Hamilton on being regarded as the GOAT after equalizing Michael Schumacher’s record.

Lewis Hamilton recently made headlines as he equalized Michael Schumacher’s most wins record at the Eifel Grand Prix, and now he is set to equalize his most number of drivers’ championship title record too by leading the table this season.

It is certain that Hamilton is writing history, and when he will retire, he will be seen at par with Ayrton Senna and Schumacher, but the Briton driver is not interested in any of these titles.

“I think it’s really hard to suddenly be rewriting history, that’s a very hard idea, for me personally,” he said. “I can only speak from my experience, but it’s really hard to compute that and put that into reality and meaning.

“Of course, I’ve looked at and I still watch other people who are cool legends in other sports who are chasing historic moments and titles and records that were broken by great legends in the past.”

“And it’s different watching it from the outside than to be in it. But what I can say is I’m not done yet. I still feel that I’m able to improve. I still feel like I’m driving at a really good level.”

“It’s not the most important thing for me.”- Hamilton claims to be not interested in being called as the GOAT

The Brit’s latest victory saw him move out to a 69-point lead in the Drivers’ Championship. Should Hamilton take this year’s crown, and it is looking very much as if he will, it will be a record-equalling seventh World title.

Next year he could be chasing an unprecedented eighth. “What’s been really clear to me is, yes, it’s so great having these wins. But I think the more important things are what you do out of car,” he added.

“That’s really where I think the impact can be made. I’ve never, ever really wanted to be remembered other than to my family. But obviously, having these results, this journey that I’ve had with my fans, hopefully they will remember me.

“I would imagine all of you want to be remembered for being a good human being and someone that actually cared about the world and did what they did with great intentions.

“It’s not the most important thing for me to be remembered as the best or the greatest, as I said, because I have so much respect for those drivers in the past.

“I don’t feel like I need to compare myself to them because I’m different. And we all are different and unique.”

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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