Lewis Hamilton in no rush to find new manager after making break from his father

By Tom Cary, F1 Correspondent Published: 10:31AM GMT 02 March 2010

Parting of the ways: Lewis Hamilton wants to set up a attribute with his father Anthony afar from the lane Photo: GETTY IMAGES

"I"m twenty-five right away - and I think it was unavoidable that there had to be shift at a little point," pronounced Hamilton, whose complete career to date has been made by his attribute with his father, who built and ran Hamilton"s go-karts as a boy, worked a series of jobs concurrently to keep him in supports and ferried him to and from competition meets.

"Over the past couple of years, we looked around to see if we could move someone else in to the design to assistance with the incident either to assistance with guidance, or sponsors, or whatever it was.

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"We looked at it and I usually never felt gentle with any one else. At the time I desired my father being my physical education instructor and receiving caring of things, given I certitude him.

"Other managers you sinecure as employees, but my father is my dad. I know he does things for usually the right reasons, and I can usually certitude him with my full heart.

"But all of this time we were deliberating bringing someone else in, we never utterly had the certainty to do it. I think we"re right away at the point where we are seeking to take that step and I think it is a certain step.

"I"m 25. I am my own man now, I"ve been in F1 for utterly a whilst right away and I wouldn"t have been means to do it but my dad. He"s finished a illusory job. But he"s finished that job."

There have prolonged been suggestions from inside of the paddock that Hamilton should occupy a veteran to conduct his open relations, his chaotic press and sponsorship commitments, as well as come to terms his commercial operation contracts and endorsements.

At the tallness of last years hugely deleterious Liegate controversy, when Hamilton was held lying to competition stewards in Australia underneath direction from McLaren sporting executive Dave Ryan, it was felt that his interests could have been improved shielded by a veteran operative for him.

For the moment, Hamilton says he is in "no rush" to designate someone, with McLaren overseeing the day-to-day stuff, but there will positively be a bolt for the pursuit of handling one of sports majority commercial stars.

"We at McLaren are a family, the guys all assistance see after me in majority ways, so there is no need for us to pour out to find a new manager," Hamilton said.

"We usually wish to take the right stairs in the right time."

Anthony Hamilton"s commercial operation interests right away embody environment up the new GP Prep academy, handling multiform alternative racing drivers, together with Paul di Resta and karting star Nyck de Vries, and work in football by a tie-up with Mark Blundell"s government company.

And Hamilton pronounced he was seeking brazen to construction a father-son attribute where they could plead their lives but the vigour of the commercial operation relationship.

"The majority critical thing for me is that I have been with my father operative on my career given I was eight years old, and it was thus tough to go and do father-and-son things," Hamilton said. "When we were at the competition lane he was regularly my manager, so we regularly did commercial operation things not father-and-son things.

"What I am really, unequivocally vehement about right away is carrying my father usually as my dad. I wish to have a manager, who can take caring of all the stresses and do all the alternative stuff, and afterwards I wish to do father things with my dad. I wish to go for a drink with my dad. I wish to go bowling with my dad. I wish to go on legal holiday with my dad.

"And afterwards I wish to be means to contend to him: "How is GP Prep going?" And I wish to be means to discuss it him about all the practice I am carrying as well - but as a dad. I wish to be means to have that, and set up that relationship."

Hamilton combined that it was doubtful his father would go on entrance to each race. "While he loves being at races, I"ve told him there are nineteen this year so he can come and go as he pleases," he explained. "He can come and suffer the ones he wants to come to. He has been at each singular competition of my life, so that will be a new experience for him.

"I had a content summary from him the alternative day and he pronounced it will be cool to lay at home and watch F1 from the couch. He has not finished that given we grew up examination F1 together, so it will be a new experience for him. He can relax and be unapproachable hopefully.

"I am probably in the most appropriate place I"ve ever been in my life," he added. "I am comfortable. I"m unequivocally enjoying it. I am feeling estimable of where I am and what I"ve completed where I am going and what I plan to do.

"And the piece of that is that now, when I need a little advice, I am seeking brazen to phoning father and saying, "I wish to do this, I wish to buy that car..." And rather than him entrance at it from the commercial operation government side of things, he will discuss it me, "Oh, I love that car, get me one as well". I wish that kind of relationship. I am vehement about carrying that kind of relationship.

"I wish my father to know and I wish everybody to know that he is regularly going to be my dad. This is us receiving a healthy course step. What he is achieving right away in his career is good he is roughly some-more important than me. Everyone I see, they say: "Hey, contend hi to your dad." They don"t contend hi to me. And that is not going to change."