' Just working all the time doesn’t bring you happiness': Lewis Hamilton was quite unhappy in the beginning of F1 career
Racing driver Lewis Hamilton has admitted he was "quite unhappy" at the start of his Formula 1 career because he spent his whole life training, racing and sleeping and there was "no space for anything else".
Lewis Hamilton was "quite unhappy" at the start of his Formula 1 career.
The champion driver devoted his whole life to training and racing after started in F1 back in 2007 which left "no space for anything else" and he ended up feeling miserable despite all of his professional success - so he became determined to bring more balance to his life.
He told He told GQ’s annual Creativity Issue: "When I first got into Formula 1, it was wake up, train, racing-racing-racing-racing, nothing else. There’s no space for anything else.
"But what I realised is that just working all the time doesn’t bring you happiness, and you need to find a balance in life. And I found out that I was actually quite unhappy.
"There was so much missing, there was so much more to me. And it was crazy, because I was like: I’m in Formula 1, I reached my dream, and I’m where I always wanted to be, I’m on top, I’m fighting for the championship. But I was just not – it was not enjoyable."
He added: "It’s almost like being in a snowglobe – that’s the racing world. And there’s so much more outside of it that you just don’t have time to explore."
Read the full story 'Lewis Hamilton is Changing Lanes' by Daniel Riley in GQ’s April issue and on GQ.com.
