^Awesome story Dana!!! I know its easy to give you a hard time about it, but it is a story worth telling numerous times.

 

Wow you met Lewis Hamilton?!?! I never knew.......

You know we would all have loved to be there, especially that BigE guy.

 

Thanks! The amazing thing was that it was just us.

I thought we would be fighting the maddening crowd of fans.

But we spent the whole afternoon just chatting about cars, family, movies - just about anything you would talk with a pal about.

He could not have been more friendly and hospitable.

 

I remember posting it here after putting it up on 6-Speed.

It was one of my first major posts on this site.

I am sure it is still around.

All of the credit goes to my friends Claus and Andreas.

I was a VERY good customer. But they didn't have to invite me.

They just knew I loved F1 and Lewis Hamilton.

 

That saying is so true, be careful what you wish for...

 

Speaking of Adrian Sutil.

YouTube - Adrian Sutil "Running" in Canada

 

I think you meant this for another thread.

 

After we got home from meeting Lewis Hamilton, I shot off an email to his fanclub website with the pictures and thanking him.

I got an email back that said the message was "undeliverable."

I didn't really think much about it at the time.

But a few days later I get an email back from Lewis saying that it was great to meet us and that he had a great time!

It gets better though. About a week later a package came for me at my law office from Woking.

It had two McLaren caps, two shirts and a replica MP4-23 steering wheel in it!

Lewis must have gotten the address from my email signature.

This is why I get so prickly when folks say Lewis is a prima donna and not a kind and generous young man.

He certainly was kind to us.

 

I never knew he drove your car dana, thats pretty cool. Shame about the no photos thing.

 

Thanks!

Yeah. They were pretty rude about the photo thing. That weekend - before he met us - he had been spotted driving a Techart Cayman and that photo made it to the Internet. It caused a major issue with the folks at Woking.

But when I got my camera out, Lewis held the wheel and smiled for the picture. But his handlers literally swarmed me and physically took the camera from my hands. I guess it is a big deal to McLaren that he not be seen in any other cars. Even though it was a Mercedes, it was a Brabus badged car and they did not want that. In fact, they didn't even want me to tell anyone that he had driven it.

I got the feeling that Lewis was more than fine with taking some photos while he drove the car. But his entourage were really being dicks. He kept telling them to stop but they wouldn't. It felt like they had to report directly to Ron Dennis if anything went wrong. I respected that.

They originally said that we could take no pictures at all. But Lewis overruled that and insisted that we be allowed to take some shots together without the cars in the pictures.