Formula One’s reigning champion now trails Nico Rosberg by 36 points in defence of his crown but still finds something to smile about
Lewis Hamilton continues to flutter his eyelashes flirtatiously in the direction of Lady Luck but still she scorns him. All week he had been praised for the dogged quality of his positivity, his persevering good cheer in the face of adversity; like Hamlet he would have been perfectly entitled to bang on about the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but he chose not to, displaying an almost inappropriate felicity instead.
Late on Sunday afternoon, however, as a gloaming began to close on Shanghai’s International Circuit, and he was forced to consider the consequences of Nico Rosberg’s third successive win in the Chinese Grand Prix, and the fact that he was suddenly 36 points behind in the world championship, it seemed that there was a real danger of a forlornness infiltrating his soul.
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