The rat experiment

Today an interview was published with Lewis Hamilton, blaiming some 'personal problems' for his mediocre performance last season.

I can't help but remember that hilarious article about Martin Whitmarsh calling Hamilton an 'experiment'. Its here, in case not everyone has seen it:

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/158448/1/mclaren_experiment_made_hamilton_who_he_is_now.html


So, since i read this, when i see Hamilton i always imagine a rat trying to find its way through the labyrinth.

Maybe the labyrinth is quite approbiate. Trying to find his way through the labyrinth of life. Maybe the main problem of Mr. Hamilton is Mr. Hamilton.

Ask any psychologist and he will tell you the personality is being formed in the early childhood and adolescence. Now, how can one develop a personality if he is being raised as an experiment??

The question is: was the 'experiment' successful?

If you ask Ron Dennis, for sure. He will love his creation aside from some little flaws: 2008 Australia: Hamilton won the race and when RD gratulated him and at one moment trying to take a coke bottle out of his hands ('YOU DON'T DRINK THAT STUFF DUDE NOT IN FRONT OF A CAMERA') Hamilton almost knocked him out. And it wasn't a joke. The boy looked dead serious, and RD backed off quickly. He better.

'When you raise crows, one day they will hack out your eyes.'

Anyway, he won the title in 2008 (how is debatable) so for RD yes, it must have been successful. I'm not so sure about Whitmarsh. Would he call it a success?

Would you like to learn that you have been raised as an 'experiment'? Isn't that a bit like finding out (waving to Arnold Schwarzenegger) that you are a clone?

Not any better than to find out that in the end, you are nothing but....