“Some of them were like: ‘I didn’t plan and it was a bit of a mess-up because I was really lost afterwards. There was such a hole. Such a void. And I had no idea how I was going to fill it. And I was in such a rush initially to try and fill it that you fill it with the wrong thing. And you make a few mistakes. And then eventually you find your way’.
“Some people took longer. Some people took shorter. But it just got my mind thinking about: OK, when I stop, how do I avoid that? And so I got serious about finding other things that I was passionate about.”
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As for the passions that will take over when he steps away from F1, while he “wants to do everything”, Hamilton pointed to film and fashion being the focus areas, having recently set up his own production company, Dawn Apollo Films, and worked on collections with legendary designer Tommy Hilfiger.
“I’m very ambitious,” he said. “But I understand that you can’t do – actually, I take that back because I don’t believe in the word can’t. To be a master at something, there’s the 10,000 hours it takes. Obviously, I’ve done that in racing. There’s not enough time to master all of these different things.”
Indeed, Hamilton and his company are working with F1 and Apple Original Films on an upcoming, untitled movie about the sport, with Brad Pitt starring in one of the lead roles, Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) directing and Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman (Top Gun: Maverick and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) serving as producers.
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