
'I'm not gonna be silenced. I've never ever been silenced.'
Lewis Hamilton: "I don't really care how everyone feels about what I've said. I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I say how I feel in the moment.
"I did see something that someone was saying that the things that I'm saying are calculated, and I just want to combat that with the fact that when you're in the race, your heartrate is like 170. You're driving 200 miles an hour. You don't have time to be calculated in what you're saying and thinking about what the media are going to write about, you don't think about that."
"Of course, there's some times you say things and maybe you might regret it afterwards, but I don't, and I'm never going to apologise for being authentic and real. I'm not gonna be silenced. I've never ever been silenced. I have not been asked to not say anything [by the team], and that's just the way it is."
F1 2026 | Brazil | Photo by Clive Rose