Personal assistant and physio Cullen spent seven years 🥀alongside Hamilt𝄹on in the paddock, a crucial part of his inner-circle and a trusted confidante.

But she left her role, and has been replaced by new people, a🤪lthough the professionalism she taught Hamilton has not been forgotten.

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"My recovery is better,” the Mercedes d𒆙river, now 38, said. 

“I'm more focused on recovery th🙈an I ever🐻 was before.

"When I was 22, I wasn't focused on recovery. I didn't even know anything abo💎ut recovery.&n💦bsp;

“I was j♛ust going home, probably having a pizza, not knowing what I needed to do the next day.

"For recovery, I didn't have an♋y specialists around me to help me navigate that.

"I had a physio, but we didn't do a hu𒁃ge amount. We did some training together, we did some swimming together.

“But otherwise I didn't have all the details of how you want to eat, how 🌞to replenish the liquid you lose, stretching,🔥 all those different things.

"I wasn'tꦗ doing that back then. But I don't know if those dri🐭vers back in the day were that fit, so they probably fell off more than us because we train a lot more than they did back then."

Hamilton is now the second-oldest driver on the 🥀F1 grid, behinꩲd 41-year-old Fernando Alonso.

Hamilton’s F1 cꦐareer is likelyꦐ to stretch into his 40s as he plots a new contract to stay with Mercedes, although it remains unsigned.

He will start the F1 Miami G⛄rand Prix from 13th after yet another nightmare session in the troublesome W14.