No bad blood with Ron Dennis: Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton claimed that he doesn’t have a strained relationship with his former boss Ron Dennis and went on to say that he even phoned him for a chat last month.

“We had a nice chat over the phone during the August break. We spoke for about an hour, and it was a really good conversation. I just wanted to call. I hadn’t spoken to him for a while, not seen him for a long time, so I was wondering how he and his family were,” said Hamilton.

“He has had such a big role in my life, so I felt it was important to connect. In speaking to him I don’t think there were any issues there. It didn’t feel like it when we were talking, and it was good to hear him have positive things to say,” he added.

Hamilton ended his decade-long association with McLaren in the summer and opted to join Mercedes to seek a new challenge. Since then, there have been rumours in the media about bad blood brewing between Hamilton and Dennis.

However, the driver again confirmed that he hasn’t vitiated his relationship with the McLaren unit.

“I did it (left McLaren) in the best way I possibly could, although when you leave it’s never a positive thing. But I didn’t leave feeling like I had burned any particular bridges, and, after speaking to Ron, I don’t feel like there were any bridges that had been burned,” he said.