Lewis Hamilton Blasts Claims That His Offtrack Ventures Are 'A distraction'

Lewis Hamilton is a man of many interests. Despite his current struggles in the 2025 campaign with Ferrari, he has kept up with his other ventures. His own non-alcoholic drink brand, Almave, recently launched a new product alongside his philanthropic venture, Mission 44, continuing its work as usual. Because of the multiple things that the 40-year-old does, people believe that he is being distracted from performances in Formula 1. Now, the seven-time champion has sternly responded to these claims.

Lewis Hamilton‘s dream F1 film was recently rumored to have a prequel in the coming years, as the first film achieved significant numbers. Even the 40-year-old had talked about his ideas of creating over three films, two of which would be animation style. Although Hamilton is working on multiple things at the same time, he remains laser-focused in his stint with Ferrari on the F1 track and isn’t distracted by it.

Now, Lewis Hamilton insists that his multiple venues aren’t a distraction to him. He reckoned that people were distracted by many things, one way or the other. What mattered the most was how one deployed their energy on the right things and balanced the distractions. Hamilton continued that one needed to have a creative balance, as working all the time would make their life miserable.

Further, he explained that people overloaded with work needed to find things that kept them inspired and uplifted to carry on with their work. Hamilton pointed out that his work to uplift the minorities and others never stopped as he was always doing something or the other. The 40-year-old recalled that he was fortunate enough to meet Nelson Mandela and was impressed by the latter’s habit of always pushing and fighting for others until his very last day.

It’s about how you decide to deploy your energy and create a sense of balance. You’ve got to have a creative balance, you can’t just work every hour of your life because you’ll be miserable. How do you find things that inspire you and keep you uplifted? Tapping into your creativity is one way. The work never stops. I was fortunate to meet Nelson Mandela. He was pushing and fighting for others until his last day.

Lewis Hamilton told Ferrari Magazine.

Lewis Hamilton motivates people to ‘not stoop’ to the level of others

There will always be critics and naysayers, no matter how good a work someone does in their life. Although Lewis Hamilton does some great work for the upliftment of society, he still has his fair share of haters. As such, amid the constant criticism, Hamilton motivates the people to not fall to the level of the haters, but rather maintain their own high standards and keep up with their work.