Hamilton talks up chances in Bahrain

LEWIS HAMILTON believes that as world champion it is now time for him to stand up and be counted.

Seven days after a tense, edgy, inhibited press gathering at the back of the McLaren garage in Shanghai, Hamilton was a little more positive, more lucid in Bahrain.

There were still no direct questions to be asked pertaining to the “lie-gate” hearing due to take place in front of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Wednesday.