I’m only human, says Hamilton after recovery from rare error

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Lewis Hamilton said he was only human after making a rare mistake in a rollercoaster of an Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola on Sunday.

The error left the seven-time world champion staring at a rare retirement before recovering to fight back and finish second.

In a race that resembled a high-speed game of snakes and ladders, the Mercedes driver went from pole to second to a standstill, staring at the barriers and fearing his race was over, then ninth and a lap down and back onto the podium.

It was, he said, like an afternoon from his youth when he would fight his way back through the field with “a dodgy old go-kart”….

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