Current Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE

A place to put all the posts from all the other threads primarily but love him or hate him, and even for the indifferent amongst us this is the place to discuss the marmite that is Lewis Hamilton, to learn a thing or two about his rise, talk about those controversial, genius or mad moments and something that i am bemused by, the recent articles that suggest something quite different to my perception of what's going on. Any experiences of meeting LH?

Brundle had to write a Lewis Hamilton article recently and in my tweets (which were probably ignored) I asked him to talk about LH the driver not LH the personality. It seems that you can't have one without the other.

So as a starter for ten, here is a fairly recent LH article. Posts should not be limited to this link but it can get some discussion going. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13755883.stm

The only banned topic as it is clearly ridiculous involves these four things "Glock" "2008" "Brazil" "conspiracy"

 

[Brogan]

It will if it carries on for much longer...

 

[FB]

Now this is a nice suit, although I did get distracted by the lady on the right for a few minutes before even bothering to look at what Lewis was wearing.

 

[cider_and_toast]

What, the strange blond with the black eye?

 

[Jen]

A shiny grey suit with double pockets and no waistcoat - with sleeves that are too long and only two buttons. Pffft

 

[The Artist.....]

Whatever anyone says, Lewis Hamilton was better dressed earlier in his career! That grey suit looks stylish! Mind, Jen is correct, the sleeves are too long!!!

 

[Jos the Boss]

How long are sleeves meant to be then?

 

[Brogan]

Long enough.

 

[FB]

There's about half an inch of cuff showing which looks about right to me.

 

[The Artist.....]

Ah, but that just means that the shirt is too long too!

Seriously though, a jacket sleeve should finish just before the wrist bone. I find it very difficult to find properly tailored suits without spending a fortune, because my arms are freakishly short! (I believe my span is 1.65m, and I'm 1.8m tall- they're supposed to be approximately the same).

It is an interesting idea though; do you think that in Lewis Hamilton's early career that his image was being stage managed, even down to the clothes he wore?!?

Although I think it's time to remind ourselves of THAT GQ photo shoot!

 

[Jen]

There's about half an inch of cuff showing which looks about right to me.

Only because the sleeves are concertinaed, they should run in a smooth line from the shoulder to the wrist!

 

[Titch]

OMG it just gets worse. I vote, he spends his entire life in his race suit, well until he retires. Then we stop taking pictures of him.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Jen is correct, the sleeves are too long

Actually the sleeves are not too long, on the contrary his arms are too short..

 

[Mephistopheles]

Okay no socks that's it for me..

 

[Hamberg]

You mean you don't like him now?! Shock horror!

 

[Incubus]

What the hell's GQ anyway?

 

[gethinceri]

Gravitas Quotient.

 

[Mephistopheles]

You see Incubus that's the question I wanted to ask but I didn't want to sound thick,,,,,, so what is GQ for incubus's benefit? Not mine obviously because of course I know the answer as I'm not a thicky, thicky, thick, thick..

 

[gethinceri]

It's a magazine, short for Gentleman's Quarterly.

 

[teabagyokel]

The Artist..... - Ron would have flipped at the sub-optimality of it all.

 

[The Artist.....]

Thing is, the way I understand it is that Lewis Hamilton is a good looking young man.. (Could some of the ladies, or anyone interersted in how young men look on this site confirm this for me)... I just feel that he is in need of a good stylist! Even with lots of money, it is easy to make yourself not look good! JUst look at all those people at the GQ awards!