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See Lewis Hamilton liked his privacy and as the grid grew older and very few of those he knew as a rookie remained he may have forgotten to mention things.

Things like his wife, Ruth Hamilton, the love of his life and his best friend. While he raced and spread awareness of big problems, she worked as a engineer and manager of racers. 

She worked on the engineering of WEC though, designing absolute monsters of cars for different teams over the years, starting with Ferrari, then BMW and now she was starting the Mclaren World Endurance Championship Hypercar team. She was given full control over the team as the designer and team principal.

She went by her maiden name, West in the racing world. 

She was the one to teach Nico and Lewis how to read graphs and help them through their homework, she grew up on the circuits with them but no team above karting was willing to take a girl. 

So she went to the technical side. Engineering, where she found a skill for seeing what others couldn't.

While they were not affectionate in public by any means the two had just assumed the other drivers where aware. 

In reality very few were, those include:

Sebastian Vettel (caught them kissing in Lewis's motorhome after Lewis's second championship win)

Jenson Button (was told through the gossip)

Fernando Alonso (caught them making out)

Kimi Raikkonen (Lewis has no clue how Kimi knows)

Mark Webber (through his two little lovers as Lewis calls them)

Oscar Piastri (through Mark Webber)

So yeah, it's a rather surprisingly small amount of people. But it worked for them, the four older ones had been the only people present at their ten year anniversary in 2013; they had got married when Ruth turned 18 in the November of 2003, it was a beautiful small wedding in the lake district. 

Now did it take years for Ruth to get Lewis to grow out his hair and stop shaving it? Yes. Did Ruth love him nonetheless? Yes.

 -2025, Silverstone grand prix -

Lewis Hamilton was third in the championship standings despite the struggles Ferrari had at the start. 

"Lewis, do you think WAG's are distracting drivers with them becoming more focused on relationships that rarely last long enough to get married and why don't you have a WAG?" Obviously however a stupid reporter had to break Lewis out of his day dream world he created especially for press conferences.

"Those are two contrasting statements mate and no I don't think having a partner alone would effect a drivers performance. Also who says I do not have a WAG? I do have a wife and dog you know?" Then he walked out leaving the entirety of the media pen confused and silent.

Lewis honestly thought everyone had known to Silvia's despair. 

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Okay so when Ruth saw her husband had accidentally outed them at a press conference to protect Oscar without realising immediately her first reaction was to laugh. 

Her second? Text the group chat.

The idiots & Ruth

Ruth

Lew, my love did you forget

other's don't know about us really?

The menace 21:

Lewis?? I mean man

that is a new record: Accidentally

forgot world doesn't know about him 

and his wife

Tea guy:

Okay but who won the bet?

Ruth:

I think Oscar won😂

The kid:

Yay

But also should I go bully Lewis?

Ruth:

Yes

Tea guy:

Yes

The Menace 21:

Yes

The Aussie in love:

Yes

The Mafia Spaniard:

Yes

Also Lewis may kill us when he sees the messages so hurry Osc

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"LEWIS!" A way too cheerful Oscar skipped into his driver's room. Lewis accepted his death. "That's a new low bro, you forgot to be skkibbidi sigma rizz-" Lewis blocked out the rambling Oscar fell in as he began to use all the stupid slang he knew from tiktok to annoy Lewis.

"Oscar stop or I will tell Mark about the secret TimTam stash."

"NOOOO DONT DO THIS TO ME!" Oscar dramatically wailed, truly a child of Jenson, Mark and Fernando despite the cold exterior. 

"Go back to Fernando you gremlin!" Lewis half-heartedly cursed the kid but the truth is he loved the menace he called his nephew. 

"Nope!" Oscar popped the p and then dramatically fell on the floor where he sat smug as he said," Tia Ruth said I could come." 

See the thing is anyone who knew about Ruth also knew she was Lewis's greatest weakness. In 2021 after the Abu Dhabi grand prix she had been diagnosed with cancer and it hurt more than losing the title as Lewis had to watch the one love for him struggle to live.

So when she was declared cancer free no thing has ever felt better (other than marrying her).

Lewis being well PR trained and kind. Ruth however had grown to not give a fuck about strangers, they had crossed her lines well too many times. 

Lewis had tried many times after the cancer to get her to agree to be his WAG, travel the world, not overwork herself, not care about money. He knew she would never accept but a man can dream, especially when he watched her almost die.

Don't get him wrong, he loves her, he knows and supports her dreams, but the cancer just gave him fear and you can't blame him. Almost losing the love of your life is scary.

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As you can imagine Lewis faced a lot of comments the moment all the drivers finished their interviews.

20 drivers and 1 retiree

Lando Norris:

LEWIS??

LEWIS MATE U CNT DRP THAT N GO??

George:

I hate to admit it but Lando is right.
Lewis?

Alex Albon:

BRO???????????

Max Verstappen: 

These idiots have a point for once,
Lewis why did we not know??

Charles Leclerc:

Lewis the betrayal of ur future teammate
not telling earlier!

Sebastian Vettel:

Before any more of you type
Lewis has been married since 2003
And i knew 😜

Oscar (the gremlin):

Yeah Tia Ruth is so cool!

Lando: 

OSCAR YOU KNEW??

Oscar:

yeah? I thought you all knew?

Max:

LETS GO BACK A STEP

@lewis

Lewis:

Yes I married to Ruth since 2003
Yes I love her
Yes you all know my wife

Lando:

NO I DONT

Seb:

yes you do,
Ruth West?
Team prinicpal of Mclaren Hypercar WEC
Designed most of the recent good WEC cars?

Max Verstappen:

I know who she is but don't understand how lewis got her

Oscar (the gremlin):

buurnnn Uncle Lew

Lewis:

That's it kid.
@Fernando
He has a timtam stash in his Helmet bag

Oscar (the gremlin):

NOOOOOOOOO

Nando:

Thank you Lewis
Oscar you know you are banned since The Incident

Lando:

The Incident??
Banned??
He has like 4 packets a day tho
Like he keeps them in his boots on flights for some reason??

Oscar:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LANDO YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Max:

Since when has that robot had emotions?????

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Lewis was sat slumped on the floor of his living room. His past few seasons had been trying. They had beaten him back down to that little kid in the karts trying to make a name for himself, be the sun in a universe of stars. He's been giving it his all but the world's been beating him down. 

And he had let it. Once you allow yourself to go down it's hard to come back. 

It feels like the world is on his shoulders daily. He cannot let them all down.

He had never felt so desperate, so downed before. So as Ruth walked in her high heels clicking on the floor and Roscoe padding in behind her she looked straight at Lewis and knelt down in front of him.

"Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton get the fuck up. I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

You are Lewis, a knight of England, the King of Silverstone. Pick up the pieces and race.

You have seven world championships. You have 105 race wins, 104 pole positions and you will not stop now. It's time to rise and rise far. You race with the wind, and dance with the rain, sing with the sun and power through impatience. You won with a horrific kart all the way back then, you won against your infamous champion teammate, you won after Nico left, and you won after Niki left but I won't allow you to lose because you haven't left Lewis.

You will win again. And I have every reason to believe that. You just need to. So Lewis, pick up your self pity and chuck it in the bin. Your the British driver who rules track, the face of those trying to get past the walls put in front of them, the emperor of tracks. You are my husband. Now get the fuck on the racing track and set some records." She brushed off her suit as she stood up. 

Because that is what a queen does.

He got up, these past few races had beaten him down yes but he was still Lewis Hamilton. And Silverstone is his home. 

He knew this track the same way a child knows their home. He knew exactly where and how he could get fastest laps. But in this Ferrari that may still be impossible.

So he went to Silverstone. He sat on the track. He still had a week till the race but no one ever stopped the Lewis Hamilton from visiting. He began to walk, in his head the music played, songs he handpicked. But one of his favourites was playing, it was by Ed Sheeran, Drive. 

He began to run. The air flying through his hair as he pushed hair, inspecting any changes to the track as he went. On one of the last corners it was slight but the track had been changed to be slightly higher with one side slightly higher than the other, important for overtaking and a wet race. It was the little things like this that made him the best. 

He visualised it, he visualised how he can correct the steering issues on the car, how he can push harder while keeping everything from breaking. 

He got into his ferrari, Ferrari Testarossa, his music playing from the speakers loud as he made his way home, Stevenage. His first ever home.

flying through the city with the speakers up loud, speeding by with the top down

First he drove to the town centre, hoodie up high and well at the same time this is Stevenage no one is really going to care. So he went to a place that brought back memories, Simmons. Now for those unfortunate enough to never visit a simmons, they have sausage rolls better than most. He visited the Co-op, he then went to the park he grew up playing in, the place where he would kick a football and race his cars. Back when he was a kid. 

Then he drove around an hour to an F1 exhibition. It showed him bleeding chrome, black, blue and now red. The the places he ruled over, and where he lost out. He entered hood up, braids out, tattoo's covered, he remained largely unrecognised as he strolled though history. Some of it his.  

But there was a kid, a little girl maybe 9 years old who recognised him, mouth gaping and smiling as her parents stared at Lewis's 2008 winning championship car, Lewis smiled a little, he signed her cap, leaving a note of inspiration and enouragement, winking and showing the universal shush sign before disappearing. Her parents would never know when she had it signed but they knew she did and it became her comfort hat. 

Lewis continued on, going back south on the train to London, he visited various F1 stores and stores in general, exploring more than he usually could. 

Then he returned to his house, 3 days of his home. Now time to return to the place he can always find peace at. Silverstone.

Lewis Hamilton won the Silverstone grand prix with a 78 second gap to the next car. Lewis Hamilton is the Knight of Silverstone. Lewis Hamilton is platinum. Lewis Hamilton will not stop. Not yet.

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Lewis Hamilton is an 8 time world champion. He made an improbable comeback that would be immortalised. Standing on the top step of Abu Dhabi he announced his retirement. He became a producer, commentator, designer and house husband. 

While they did not biologically have kids, Ruth and Lewis did adopt two children Willow and Niki, the older daughter Willow Jamie Hamilton went on to win 9 world championships. The younger daughter Niki Susie Hamilton also became a world champion, 5 F1 world championships, 3 le mans wins and 3 Indy500 wins. The first female to win a triple crown.

The name Hamilton was etched in formula one history, not just gracefully but harsh, present and unforgiving. Because they may be kind but they can always win.