Lewis Hamilton, the world’s fastest driver, is right, motoring’s no fun any more

Lewis Hamilton, the world’s fastest driver, is right, motoring’s no fun any more | Rebecca Nicholson

He can whizz around a track at 200mph but can’t bear constantly being on high alert for idiots on the road

It’s like Gordon Ramsay claiming to hate kitchens or Elon Musk declaring that he doesn’t get any pleasure from winding people up: racing driver Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he doesn’t like driving all that much.

Discussing normal-person trips in the car, the sort that do not take place at 200mph, unless you’re desperately trying to get to a drive-through before the breakfast menu finishes, Hamilton told Vanity Fair that he rarely chooses to do it. “I just think that I find it stressful,” he said. “I try not to do things that don’t add to my life”, an explanation I plan to try out in the next few days whenever it is my turn to wash up, vacuum or put out the bins.

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