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Hamilton: Beating Schumacher's records was never the plan

Lewis Hamilton will edge closer to Michael Schumacher’s all-time record if he wins a fifth Formula 1 world title this weekend in Austin, but he said on Wednesday that chasing the German great was never part of his plan. The Mercedes driver will move to within two of Schumacher’s all-time mark of seven championships if he scores eight points more than his Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel in Austin on Sunday. Yet Hamilton said that he realised his lifelong ambition in 2015 when he equalled the tally of his boyhood idol Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian triple champion who died in 1994, and that chasing Schumacher’s mark was never his aim. “Honestly that has never been my goal. I started out...
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