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I guess Damon one of the The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes.

I guess, Damon, one of the big questions looking at the season ahead,

aside from all the cars and all the questions around power units, things like that,

is what we're going to see from Lewis Hamilton because, obviously, the doubts were there from his own performances,

which he's referenced himself, but not just the performances, was it? It was the demeanour,

it was the comments on several occasions where, you know, I'm useless. What do you think's going on

there? And it sort of begs the question of how do you know when it's

time to start thinking about pulling out or when do you dig down and come up with a recovery?

How do you know what do you think is going on?

I think that's a very difficult question to answer for a sports person when they know.

I mean, if you're in a football team, I suppose someone would say, okay, you're not in the team anymore.

But to some degree with a driver, you've got a contract.

You could carry on for a if it's a two-year contract.

You could stick it out.

But there must come a time with every child.

They've got to stop.

And how you judge that is, you know, is very difficult.

You either let yourself be pushed.

Yeah.

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