Lewis Hamilton: 'If a song I did was good enough for someone to want to sing it, that’d be awesome'

Lewis Hamilton is stuck in traffic. Somewhere on a smoggy, snarled-up Pentonville Road, the reigning Formula 1 World Champion is in a jam en route to our meeting and his people are worried. Hamilton hates being stuck in traffic. Going slowly makes him impatient — so much so that, at home in Monaco, he travels exclusively by motorcycle and speedboat. It comes as something of a surprise when he ambles in with a micro-entourage of just two (driver/trainer Daniel and a PR) and says with a shrug that he doesn’t mind where we sit. ‘In London people don’t approach me,’ he explains. ‘I don’t think they recognise me.’ Can this be true? It surely won’t be for much longer, for this spring Hamilton has...