Formula One racer and international playboy, Lewis Hamilton, has been engaged in a not-so-stealthy dalliance with the surf world for a handful of years now.
Back in 2019, the knighted English racecar driver had a go at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; in 2020, he hit up URBNSurf in Melbourne; and more recently, he and Makua Rothman had a session at Waco Surf in Texas.
But it appears that Hamilton’s flirtations with surfing don’t solely revolve around the wavepool variety; he’s also had a romp with the Queen herself, Pipeline.
Per a new interview with the Robb Report, a luxury lifestyle blog, Hamilton talked about the time he paddled out at Pipeline with Kelly Slater when it was, ahem, “25-foot.”
“Kelly was like, ‘there’s no way you’re going out there,’” he said. “And I was like, ‘Kelly, I’m going out.’”
Hamilton continued, recounting how he watched Kelly catch a wave:
“This thing was massive, a huge tunnel, and I could see Kelly coming right down it in front of me. And I just had to make sure I didn’t get sucked in. So, I dived down and grabbed the reef and prayed.
“I could hear the thing land behind me, like a bomb going off. My board got ripped off and snapped in half. I was very close to the end. But that excites me for some reason.”
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