As Felipe Massa builds a legal challenge to Lewis Hamilton’s debut F1 title in 2008 – the Brazilian claiming that season’s Singapore ‘Crashgate’ directly contributed to the then-Ferrari man losing the championship – it highlights that 15 years have now passed since F1’s most successful driver won his first GP crown.
In March 2019, Mark Hughes spoke to some of the people that know Hamilton’s racing psyche best, including Ross Brawn, Paddy Lowe, Jock Clear, Hamilton’s former manager Marc Hynes and karting arch-rival Fraser Sheader.