So many people have been in awe of him over the years. Samuel L Jackson felt Hamilton was \u2018robbed\u2019<\/a> after the 2021 Abu Dhabi finale, and it\u2019s a debate that spread far and wide.<\/p>\n Photo by Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n Lewis Hamilton was surprised by Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s height at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix<\/p>\n Lewis Hamilton has praised Brad Pitt<\/a> and is a lot more involved with the celebrity scene nowadays than he has been in years prior, thanks to his involvement in things such as the Formula 1<\/a> movie and fashion.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n There was once a time when celebrities would be one of the main features of a race weekend, alongside the racing action, rather than being an afterthought.<\/p>\n When Arnold Schwarzenegger was trusted with doing the podium interviews at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix \u2013 a move normally conducted by pundits or ex-race drivers, it was a move that brought a smile to everyone\u2019s face.<\/p>\n His interaction with race-winner Hamilton, fresh off the back of his second title-winning campaign in 2014, was golden.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible feeling, obviously, to continue on from last year [2014], but also to be up here with you, man. I thought you were taller! I thought that he was taller on the Terminator,\u201d said Hamilton.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not wearing my high heels,\u201d Schwarzenegger replied.<\/p>\n Photo by Joe Maher\/Getty Images<\/p>\n What were the race results at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix?<\/p>\n The opening race of the 2015 season produced a fairly standard affair. A Mercedes one-two was fairly common for the time, while a debut podium for Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari produced some excitement.<\/p>\n Just 15 cars started the race, courtesy of the missing Manor Marussia cars, an injured Valtteri Bottas, and reliability issues for Daniil Kvyat and Kevin Magnussen.<\/p>\n Max Verstappen\u2019s Formula 1 debut would end painfully, as he suffered an engine failure while running in sixth place.<\/p>\n Just five drivers finished on the lead lap, and 11 were classified, in a display that would shock the newer generation of fans, used to seeing almost every car make the finish at every event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of Lewis Hamilton\u2019s term with Mercedes feels like an absolute age ago. In fact, it has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[29355,48546,49,48,578,576,577,932,117298,5385,169830,82,169831],"class_list":["post-402896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-australian-grand-prix","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-serena-williams","tag-silver-arrows","tag-sports","tag-the-briton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/origin_1.jpg\"\/)
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