It's quite an unusual experience for me - Hamilton

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Team driver, Lewis Hamilton, who could win the title in his rookie season at Interlagos this weekend, said that it's an unusual experience for him to be in the heartland of Ayrton Senna, his big inspiration.

Lewis Hamilton said: "I won’t say I have a spiritual connection with him but for me, it’s just an unusual experience because all the years I’ve been watching Formula One and literally from the beginning of my karting career I’ve had books on Senna, I’ve had videos and Racing’s in My Blood and all the other videos, and to watch them and seeing him in his home country and seeing how people see him over here, and how he is over here, and finally to come into this country, the first time in Brazil to realise that I’m on his home turf and where his final resting place is - it’s quite touching. Knowing that my hotel is only a couple of miles from where he is; that’s the closest I’ve ever been to him. It’s quite an unusual experience for me."