At Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton claimed his 14th British Grand Prix podium – more than any other driver – and then went partying in London with Shakira. Although, if you want to look at the glass half empty, the English seven-time champion, owner of a solitary life after years of parties and lack of control in his starts in Formula 1, signed his worst streak without victories (33): the last date of that 2021 championship lost with Max Verstappen, the 22 of last year and the 10 that he has already lost in the current season.
Before this negative record, the worst record of the driver with the most pole positions and wins (103) in the history of F1 was that of the ten Grand Prix between China in 2008 and Hungary in 2009 and the same number between Brazil. 2012 and Hungary 2013. Since the next date of this season, July 23, is in Budapest, the question arises: will this streak that began on December 5, 2021 at the Saudi Arabian GP end? and what seems eternal?
While on the Silverstone track he finished on the podium for the tenth consecutive year, Hamilton received a special visitor: Shakira was seen for the third time at a grand prix this year, after being present in Miami and Barcelona. In all three, in addition, she accompanied the British out of the circuit.
A year after the separation from Gerard Piqué and after telling the world about the footballer’s infidelity with the young Catalan Clara Chía at the Bzrp Music Sessions Vol. 53, the Colombian singer would have started an affair with the British pilot, according to a close source. to his environment in the middle Vanitatis.
In mid-May, after attending the Miami GP, Shakira and Hamilton were photographed sailing on the Gulf Coast and, the following month, the ‘friends’ couple were photographed having dinner at a Japanese restaurant in Barcelona after the Spanish GP.
In London, after the race, they went to Tape London, a place frequented by the celebrities of the English capital. The common denominator in all the meetings was that they were accompanied by friends and that no gesture of romance between them was captured, so there are many doubts about their true relationship.
The English media The Sun, contacted a witness of the last meeting between the two in London. ”They were together at a VIP table at the venue and Shakira was seen deep in conversation with Lewis, as well as several other members of her entourage. Shakira ended the night around 3:30 a.m. and a driver picked her up and took her back to the Hotel Café Royal,” explained the person present at the club while she assured that the pilot stayed several more hours in the place.
In his extensive career in Formula 1, where he has already played 17 seasons, when he got into a McLaren to accompany the two-time champion Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton met several love affairs, most of them temporary and in his most uncontrolled years. Then, the British changed his lifestyle: lonelier, he has no wife or children, something that, according to him, he will reserve for when he leaves F1 and is not so focused on his work.
His first known romance was the one he had with Miss England 2004, Danielle Lloyd, who later participated in the Big Brother VIP program in the United Kingdom. After breaking up with her, he even began dating Jodie Mae, daughter of Hong Kong tycoon Ma Bo-kee and owner of the multinational Moulin sunglasses, with whom he was until 2007.
As he became F1’s youngest champion in 2008 by winning his maiden title just one point ahead of Felipe Massa’s Ferrari, Lewis went from penalty to penalty and party to party.
“It was a difficult time. Things were happening at full speed and I needed to put order,” he said about that period in which he was also linked to Lotta Hintsa, a young woman who had been proclaimed the most beautiful woman in Finland and whose father was the McLaren team doctor, and the representative of the Caribbean country Grenada in the Miss World contest, Vivian Burkhardt.
Although that year he began his longest relationship to date (7 years), with the American singer, actress and dancer Nicole Scherzinger, a member of the group The Pussycat Dolls, and won the titles in 2014 and 2015 to become a three-time Formula 1 champion. , Hamilton seemed to start a self-destructive stage. In fact, he was late for the Brazilian GP in 2015 when he suffered a car accident in Monaco, where he destroyed his Pagani Zonda, valued at 2 million euros, by an explosive cocktail of little rest, party and alcohol.
Parting ways with Scherzinger, her face appeared more frequently in the entertainment pages alongside the likes of singer Rihanna and an endless list of models. The riot described Hamilton’s activity off the track. “I can party, get up the next day and win the race,” she used to say.
In those years, in addition to the parties in Barbados -her homeland- and the appointments in New York with Rihanna, the Englishman was linked to the top model Chanel Iman; the composer and actress Rita Ora; Hungarian model Barbara Palvin, Victoria’s Secret Angel; the American model Kendall Jenner; singer Nicki Minaj; the American influencer Sofia Richie; the model Veronica Valle, who accused him in The Sun of being “Jekyll and Hyde” for humiliating her because of her weight and using her “for sex”; and the Canadian Jamaican model Winnie Harlow.
He knew that he had to put a stop to that life and he did so in 2017. Hamilton won his fourth championship in the quietest year of his professional life -because for the first time he had a teammate (Valtteri Bottas) who did not represent a rivalry- and also personal, after adopting a vegan diet and choosing as his only company a physiotherapist who took him away from his tumultuous career off the track. After kicking out his physical trainer, he chose Angela Cullen as his only company and she took it upon herself to protect him, keep him away from the parties and allow him to focus only on the car.
In 2021, Hamilton gave an interview to Sky Sports Italia in which he vented: “I have a great team with me and I consider that I have more commitments than any other driver. Finding the right balance is the most complicated, since it is never nice to be told that you have competed badly because you were distracted by other things”.
From 2019 until now, he was related to three other models: the American Zahra Elise, the Spanish Cindy Kimberly and the Dominican Camila Kendra. Currently, Shakira is present in his life, although it is not yet known if they are just friends or if something else will be born between them.
