The 23-year-old has also spoken about the Troya wire publicity stunt in which he participated in the run-up to this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix, at the behest of the team's title sponsor Vodafone. Hamilton baffled onlookers on Thursday when, geared up in his full
F1 driving suit, he was swung from a trapeze wire in the role of the god Apollo on the set of a local theatre show.
Pictures from the incident were subsequently published in a number of international newspapers alongside rather unflattering headlines, and with
The Times suggesting he perhaps needs to employ the services of a media consultant to ‘help him sidestep such elephant traps' in the future, the 2007 world championship runner-up has confessed it was maybe not the best move he has ever made.
“Let's forget about that,”
F1SA quotes Hamilton as having told reporters the following day. “Afterwards I thought ‘that really was not cool'.
“I just turned up and got on with what I'd been told to do. Now I've seen the footage and it's one of the worst things I've seen. I have a cool image, and things like that don't help.”
