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“I was missing so many things… because I thought: I’m in Formula 1, I reached my dream and I’m where I always wanted to be, I’m at the top, I’m fighting for the championship. But I just wasn’t, it wasn’t enjoyable, there’s so much more outside of this that you just don’t have time to explore. If you go to an office every day and do the same thing every day, you’ll just tune out. You have to find something else that can calm you down, that can keep your mind going,” he said during the interview.

“I was missing so many things… because I thought: I’m in Formula 1, I reached my dream and I’m where I always wanted to be, I’m at the top, I’m fighting for the championship. But I just wasn’t, it wasn’t enjoyable, there’s so much more outside of this that you just don’t have time to explore. If you go to an office every day and do the same thing every day, you’ll just tune out. You have to find something else that can calm you down, that can keep your mind going,” he said during the interview.

But it made me think: Well, when I stop, how can I avoid it? And then I got serious about pursuing other things I was passionate about,” he signs off, such as fashion and his collections with Tommy Hilfiger or even film with his own production company, Dawn Apollo Films (with Brad Pitt‘s F1 movie as the star), as well as being a music producer or launching his own energy drink.

“I don’t believe in the word can’t, but to be a master at something, it takes 10,000 hours. Obviously, I’ve done it in racing, but there’s not enough time to master all these different things,” closes the Briton.