F1: For Hamilton, 2019 was "the best year of my career"

Paris (AFP)

"It was the best year of my career," said Briton Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) on Friday in Paris for his sixth Formula 1 title in 2019.

"I am very proud of what we have done collectively as a team (...), to be ahead and maintain this level of performance as we have done (by winning a sixth consecutive double driver and constructors" , an unprecedented performance in the history of F1, ed), "he continued.

"In terms of my driving, I am very satisfied with my performances this year, although there are always areas in which I can improve myself, but that will never change," said the 34-year-old driver. who, with five pole positions in 21 races, was less successful than usual in an exercise in which he nevertheless holds the absolute record of 88 poles.

Overall, "it's probably the outside influences that have made this year's best," Hamilton said. "Just being happier, happier in my collaboration with the team, the teamwork and the doors that opened in the field of fashion," said the one who designs collections with the Tommy Hilfiger brand.

In 2020, the Briton will have a first opportunity to try to equal the record of titles of the German Michael Schumacher (7).

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