SHOCKING:Hamilton Gives FIA Award To A Stranger

British driver of Mercedes Lewis Hamilton did not take the prize from the annual Gala Ceremony of Formula 1 in Baku and gave it to a stranger named Nihad Nesirli.

Recall, the Briton was dissatisfied with the venue of the ceremony.

Earlier, the driver was fined $50,000 for the incident at the Formula 1 stage in Qatar. Also, the Briton became second at the end of the Grand Prix of Mexico.

F1 analyst Peter Windsor said a “disillusioned” Lewis Hamilton is not good for the series, while suggesting Valtteri Bottas still being his Mercedes team-mate could have made for a different story.

F1 2023 marked a further campaign of disappointment for Hamilton, who rather than returning to the title scene as he and Mercedes had targeted, instead found himself going without a single victory for the second season running.

And the campaign very much ended on a low note for Hamilton, who suffered back-to-back Q2 eliminations and in Abu Dhabi lost out in a late battle with AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda, consigning him to a P9 finish as Mercedes later claimed their driver was battling a brake issue.

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Speaking on his YouTube channel, Windsor suggested that Mercedes’ choice of team-mate for Hamilton played a role in his rather sombre F1 2023.

Mercedes replaced Bottas, who partnered Hamilton across four of his title-winning years, with George Russell for 2022, who after getting the better of Hamilton in their first season as team-mates, was comfortably seen off by Hamilton in the latest campaign.

“If he was in a Red Bull this year or maybe with Valtteri in the other car, I think we would have seen a different Lewis,” Windsor claimed.