Tommy Martin: Still the king, but now Lewis Hamilton thinks about more than winning

Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Happy Gilmore — history is full of hungry young men dripping with ambition. That’s Max Verstappen in our tale and Lewis Hamilton is the King of Kings

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates winning the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in front of the second placed Red Bull driver Max Verstappen. Picture: Hassan Ammar

The weird — and kind of brilliant — thing about the first series of Drive To Survive, the Netflix show which turbo-boosted the popularity of Formula One, is that Lewis Hamilton barely appears in it.

Weird because it was 2018 and he was on his way to a fifth world drivers’ championship. On the face of it, this would be like having The Last Dance without Michael Jordan, right?