F1 Raceweek: Distracted Hamilton snaps at news conference
Lewis Hamilton courted controversy once again as he spent a large part of a pre-Japanese Grand Prix news conference taking pictures on his phone.
Published : Oct 06, 2016 20:49 IST
Lewis Hamilton courted controversy once again as he spent a large part of a pre-Japanese Grand Prix news conference taking pictures on his phone.
The Briton, who struck a markedly different tone after an engine fire ended his race in Malaysia, drew criticism from some quarters as he appeared distracted.
Hamilton, who sits 23 points behind Mercedes team-mate
"Just some snaps of us drivers, it's quite funny," he said when asked what he was doing on his phone.
"Hey man, we've been doing this a long, long time and it's the same each time. We've got to keep adding new things to it."
When the phone was out of sight, Hamilton cut a more defiant figure as he spoke about the woes that visited him at Sepang, with the 31-year-old insisting the incident was behind him.
"I've not been thinking about the last race," he said. "Usually when I leave the race track I think about a lot of other things, I have a lot of other stuff going on, so I was in Tokyo enjoying my time. I love being in Tokyo. It's one of my favourite cities, one of my top three favourite cities in the world."