Lewis Hamilton has stated that learning discipline through karate as a child has helped him navigate his successful racing career.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton sits as the most triumphant driver in F1 history with more pole positions, victories and podiums than any other driver.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
His form this year has been a stark improvement from his maiden season with Ferrari, and he currently sits second in the drivers’ championship, 50 points down on leader Kimi Antonelli.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The seven-time champion has spoken often about being bullied during his childhood, which led him to take on the hobby of learning karate.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He did so again at the Hungarian Grand Prix, insisting he was able to learn discipline through his sessions.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cKarate, it was a really important part of my life,\u201d Hamilton told media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, it’s where I learned a lot of discipline, I was just a normal kid with lots of energy, bouncing off walls, climbing trees.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed that energy directed into something and otherwise I would have probably gone off the rails with where I grew up.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked to go to karate when I was six because I was being bullied, and that lasted for a long, long time, the bullying, all the way into junior school, into high school.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As Hamilton rose through the ranks of motorsport, he found success with junior title victories en route to F1.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old detailed that even then, he was faced with bullies – but he used his karate knowledge to be stoic.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cKarate really gave me that confidence to be able to handle myself and handle those bullies,\u201d\u00a0he added.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then when I got to the racetrack, the same thing.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cBullies are there, so I think it just enabled me to understand myself, understand the power that I have within, and how to utilise it for good rather than negative.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has stated that learning discipline through karate as a child has helped him navigate his successful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-555981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}