Hamilton acquires Schumi's bad habit

Often the measure of a man is how he deals with adversity. On this, Lewis Hamilton is less of a world champ and more of a chump. Let's hope this weekend's race in Canada has less bleating from the man who has more reasons than most to be happy, but who didn't smile much in Monaco.

A team player he is not. When Sergio Perez's crash wrecked McLaren's qualifying strategy, Hamilton found himself lining up on the grid in seventh when he thought he had the pace to be on pole.

He felt the team should have put him out early in the last qualifying session to get a 'banker' lap in. It's an argument that's not without merit, but the argument should have been had behind closed doors, not via the media.

The race was an utter disaster, with the Brit taking on the mantle, previously held by Michael Schumacher, of 'wrecker in chief'. Two penalties issued by the stewards for his less-than-subtle racing left him not contrite, but fuming.

In an astonishing post-race interview he launched a broadside against the stewards of whom he's been seeing a lot of recently. It was, he said, a 'frickin' joke'. Plainly he feels picked on, but his joke (and it was a joke) that perhaps it was 'because I am black - that's what Ali G says' was woeful.

It doesn't make you warm to the guy. Stop blaming everyone but himself for his misfortunes might help. So might finding a mentor figure to get valuable advice from. Now his father no longer manages him, somebody to counsel calmness and caution is essential.