IT WILL BE SAD WITHOUT NICO
Each has a benchmark for the other throughout their careers , the man they measure themselves against , and Hamilton recognised he would miss the German who rose to the top at the same time as he did .
“ We started out when we were 13 and we ’ d always talked about being champions ,” he said . “ When I joined this team , Nico was there , which was again something we talked about when we were kids .
“ It ’ s going to be very , very strange and it will be sad not to have him in the