🚨| Natalie Pinkham on AD21: "I couldn't explain it to my kids."
She speaks on her 'most enduring memory' of that day and maintains that Sir Lewis Hamilton "walked away from that moment with more fans globally than if he'd won an eighth world title because of the way he handled it." :
"One of the problems that I had with 2021 personally was I couldn't explain it to my kids, and if I can't explain it to my kids, how can we as broadcasters explain it to the viewers, the public at large? How can anyone really understand it? Not least of all the protagonists, not least of all Lewis, you know."
"So I tell you what, for me the most enduring memory of that day was seeing Anthony Hamilton go up and whisper in his son's ear and to this day I've never asked him what he said to his son. I don't want to know because it was such a private moment on a very public stage, but whatever it was, it was enough for Lewis to walk up to Max and shake him by the hand, look him in the eye and I thought, my God, if anything we can take out of this its this incredible moment for children everywhere to see how to deal with adversity and defeat graciously, magnanimously and I still contend to this day that Lewis walked away from that moment with more fans globally than if he'd won an eighth world title because of the way he handled it. It was just incredible."
"Yeah, no, and by the way, I didn't want or expect to get drawn into the 2021 thing or take us into it, but I always say as well this wasn't Max's fault, like Max was a deserved winner as well, like you saw some of the performances he put in that season. If you could have split the title in two, both of them were just incredible champions that year and it was a shame that it ended the way it did because actually that overshadowed what was an epic year of racing."
[short clip from @TheRedFlags_Pod]
The noise, the crowd
@LewisHamilton at full noise around Interlagos, a place Ayrton Senna wrote some of our most famous chapters as a sport
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