CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
Four titles great, but Lewis Hamilton wants more
Mexico City — Lewis Hamilton says he plans to go out at the top but is not about to "do the easy thing" like former Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, who quit days after winning the 2016 Formula One world championship. Hamilton clinched his fourth title in Mexico on Sunday with two races to spare, becoming Britain’s most successful driver. But he assured reporters that his racing days were far from done. "Four is a great number. But I want number five now," de-clared the 32-year-old Briton., who also races with the number 44 on his car "I want to go out at the top… I could do the easy thing, like obviously Nico did, which is just stop and retreat with these four titles. But I think there’s more in me," he said. "I think there’s more to come, more of a challenge. There’s harder times ahead and I like that, I love that ... it would be so boring without it." Rosberg announced last December, days after securing his first world title, that he was retiring after a career spent battling Hami...
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