Hamilton was denied an all-time record eighth F1 championship last year when race director Michael Masi’s incorrect interpretation of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Safety Car rule allowed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, on fr🦋esher tyres, to pass him and claim the title.

Verstappen’s 2022 championship has been won amid the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 cost cap scandal - ℱRed Bull are still awaiting their penalty fo𓆏r breaching the 2021 budget cap.

“You buried it and moved on," Hamilton told BBC about the cost cap row bringing back memories of the ill-fated 2021 ꦉfinale. 

“And then it comes back up and it's like an🅷other bit of a kick. So then [it was a case of] just getting back into the phase of just suppressing it and moving forwards."

Hamilton had threatened to quit F1 in the wa💫ke of last year’s season finale.

He now says: "Was I ever truly noꦡt going to come back?

"I am not one to give up like that.

"What really was breaking was to just believe that the sport would do something like that. That that would happen, given that there are so many people you rely on. You expect that th𒁏e job would be done right.

"An outcome of a world championship which so many people have worked so hard fo♛r would co🌳me out through a wrong decision from somebody, you know?

"That was probably the only thing. It wasn't for my lack of love for working with my team or racing ca꧋rs.

"If you can lose a championship thr🧔ough wrongdoing within an organisation, t💝hat was the thing that I wondered whether…

"I spent time with my family and that was really the best part of the he🌺aling. That enabled me to really recover, really bounce back.”

Hamilton is sixth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 standings heading into the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 Mexico City Grand Prix this weekend.

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