Lewis Hamilton

[DanielSan]

37chevy said:

ExitLeft said:

I’m not familiar with his personal tax affairs but anyone who travels as much for their work as LH does will have very complex returns to do in a lot of countries - some like Canada are really rigorous even if you work there for a day. And given he has a house in Colorado (I believe?) then he will be filing US returns - and the US taxes on worldwide income no exceptions. So I doubt he has a huge tax break by not being a UK resident anymore. But I’m sure lots of expert will be able to correct me.

You’re pretty spot on. Add to that the way sports contracts work for athletes and he will be paying tax in each country on the salary/ winnings for those races

All of this is why I could never do accounts, just the basic thought of doing all that makes my brain hurt.

[Poppiecock]

paulguitar said:

I made the point when that was posted that to say something like that you have to be pretty broken inside.

Not pleasant to read.

Amazing over-reactions to an opinion on a forum.

It's like a klaxon goes off if anyone posts something you may not like so you can rush, like a white knight, to defend him!

Funny as fk.

[C70R]

Poppiecock said:

paulguitar said:

I made the point when that was posted that to say something like that you have to be pretty broken inside.

Not pleasant to read.

Amazing over-reactions to an opinion on a forum.

It's like a klaxon goes off if anyone posts something you may not like so you can rush, like a white knight, to defend him!

Funny as fk.

That's the third time you've made that point in the past few pages of this thread.

Do you think you should give up trying to get a reaction out of people now?

I'm no superfan of Hamilton, but your contributions make for a tedious thread.

[ntiz]

Why is there the expectation that you have to live were you are born?

It’s 2019 if you have loads of money the world is your oyster. You can live anywhere. He isn’t tied down especially and anyone with a brain when sat down with there accountant the day after signing your 40 million a year contract. Discussing the option of staying in the UK and stumping up 45% of your income or move somewhere nicer and pay I think 15-20% in Monaco. You would have to mental to stay especially when you know it will end one day so you need to make what you can.

Hence barely any F1 drivers live in there native countries.

[vdn]

ntiz said:

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Hence barely any F1 drivers live in there native countries.

Ah! But this is PistonHeads... Hamilton is the only driver to be slated for it, and we have posters stating that he’s turned his back on the country that “gave him everything” - and that he prefers to hang around with “his own kind”.

I’m afraid there are some very backward members on PH. And that’s putting it nicely.

[iandc]

Poppiecock said:

Amazing over-reactions to an opinion on a forum.

It's like a klaxon goes off if anyone posts something you may not like so you can rush, like a white knight, to defend him!

Funny as fk.

Oh dear! Have you and your friend considered anger management courses?

[swisstoni]

Aw. They’ve had a disappointing day bless em.

[mikal83]

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd back on topic. What a fantastic race, both Hamilton and Verstappen giving it 100% for lap after lap.

[ntiz]

vdn said:

ntiz said:

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Hence barely any F1 drivers live in there native countries.

Ah! But this is PistonHeads... Hamilton is the only driver to be slated for it, and we have posters stating that he’s turned his back on the country that “gave him everything” - and that he prefers to hang around with “his own kind”.

I’m afraid there are some very backward members on PH. And that’s putting it nicely.

The funny thing is most sports people will have spent large parts of there lives living in other countries to get the best support.

My Brother in law until quite recently was on a mission to be the next Andy Murray. To do that he packed himself off to a top academy in Spain. The UK that he would have represented would have contributed very little to his success.

Same for my wife and I we met whilst living France being coached by a mixture of French and Swiss.

Sport is incredibly international now. Essentially a driver is just representing the country he has the most affinity for rather than has supported him to success.

Back on topic what a race!!

[mattikake]

sparta6 said:

paulguitar said:

sparta6 said:

paulguitar said:

Has anyone here actually had the 'flu? It was as much as I could do to make it downstairs to get a Lemsip, I was so weak. If he really did a full GP weekend with it, that's pretty amazing.

Did you manage to get back upstairs ?

You can run a half marathon with man-flu and sweat it out.

Women's flu is more dibilitating

I did make it back, and my bed is on the third floor of my house, so it is actually quite a long way!

I am guessing from your username that it would not affect you at all, and would anyway be pretty small beer to you having survived your first night on the planet left on a hillside.

Good to hear you managed to ascend all the stairs.

You are far closer to describing my brother. He's on another level in the middle of harsh hostile terrain while carrying flu and full backpack with all the trimmings

Flu is often misused to describe a minor bug and a bit of a sniffle. If you get the actual flu, you will know about it. Biologically speaking your immune system is in a literal fight for survival. It has around 24 hours to find it's own anti-biotic cure or you simply die. The reason it appears to last for about a week is just the recovery period from an energy exhaustive near-death battle. 1 day of fight, 6 days to recover from that massive fight.

Which is why you have "man-flu" and "the flu". They are two completely different things.

And there's no way in hell lewis was racing with the actual flu, because his body would basically shut down while it throws all of it's resources into trying to stay alive. At worst he had a bit of a sore throat and a runny nose.

[anonymous-user]

ntiz said:

Why is there the expectation that you have to live were you are born?

It’s 2019 if you have loads of money the world is your oyster. You can live anywhere. He isn’t tied down especially and anyone with a brain when sat down with there accountant the day after signing your 40 million a year contract. Discussing the option of staying in the UK and stumping up 45% of your income or move somewhere nicer and pay I think 15-20% in Monaco. You would have to mental to stay especially when you know it will end one day so you need to make what you can.

Hence barely any F1 drivers live in there native countries.

They pay 0% in Monaco.

[kambites]

mattikake said:

Flu is often misused to describe a minor bug and a bit of a sniffle. If you get the actual flu, you will know about it.

Frankly that's rubbish. Influenza is a category of virus of which there are several strains and even for a given strain, symptoms can vary dramatically from person to person. It's perfectly possible to catch flu and develop no symptoms at all; it's also possible to die from it... and anything in between. People love to say "flu is severe, a cold is mild" but it's just not true, they have a massive cross-over in terms of severity and without actually testing to see which virus has caused in the infection, they're pretty much impossible to tell apart.

On average, an influenza infection will be moderately severe and a cold will be pretty mind, but that's just that - an average.

Edited by kambites on Sunday 4th August 18:55

[ntiz]

jsf said:

ntiz said:

Why is there the expectation that you have to live were you are born?

It’s 2019 if you have loads of money the world is your oyster. You can live anywhere. He isn’t tied down especially and anyone with a brain when sat down with there accountant the day after signing your 40 million a year contract. Discussing the option of staying in the UK and stumping up 45% of your income or move somewhere nicer and pay I think 15-20% in Monaco. You would have to mental to stay especially when you know it will end one day so you need to make what you can.

Hence barely any F1 drivers live in there native countries.

They pay 0% in Monaco.

Sorry yes you’re right. They do have to pay VAT and property tax though? Not that is that big a deal.

[dxbtiger]

[mattikake]

kambites said:

mattikake said:

Flu is often misused to describe a minor bug and a bit of a sniffle. If you get the actual flu, you will know about it.

Frankly that's rubbish. Influenza is a category of virus of which there are several strains and even for a given strain, symptoms can vary dramatically from person to person. It's perfectly possible to catch flu and develop no symptoms at all; it's also possible to die from it... and anything in between. People love to say "flu is severe, a cold is mild" but it's just not true, they have a massive cross-over in terms of severity and without actually testing to see which virus has caused in the infection, they're pretty much impossible to tell apart.

On average, an influenza infection will be moderately severe and a cold will be pretty mind, but that's just that - an average.

Edited by kambites on Sunday 4th August 18:55

The flu and a cold are two entirely diffrent viruses. A cold is mild and nothing serious. The flu has killed millions.

https://youtu.be/BGTsyYQq0xs

https://youtu.be/WSZEcpti2i0

I repeat, if I lewis had been suffering with the flu - I.e. he knew he had it, racing would be the last thing on his mind, staying alive the first.

[kambites]

mattikake said:

The flu and a cold are two entirely diffrent viruses.

Err, yes. I didn't say anything to the contrary.

However it is still perfectly possible to have influenza with very mild symptoms, or indeed none at all for that matter.

Edited by kambites on Sunday 4th August 19:33

[mattikake]

kambites said:

mattikake said:

The flu and a cold are two entirely diffrent viruses.

Err, yes. I didn't say anything to the contrary.

However it is still perfectly possible to have influenza with very mild symptoms, or indeed none at all for that matter.

Edited by kambites on Sunday 4th August 19:33

But if he and others knew he had "the flu" that he did have symptoms, his body was in emergency shut-down as it was desperately trying to find an antibody.

I've never heard of anyone getting "a minor bout of flu" other than self-indulgent spin. The biological process to cause symptoms means it's gone way beyond anything minor.

[vdn]

Flu can be pretty bad or deadly and there’s a massive in-between.

[mattikake]

The point is; there's no chance of racing with flu or even getting in a car. It was certainly man-flu aka a cold, and a completely different virus with a completely different imunal response, if there even was one at all.

[vdn]

mattikake said:

The point is; there's no chance of racing with flu or even getting in a car. It was certainly man-flu aka a cold, and a completely different virus with a completely different imunal response, if there even was one at all.

I don’t know if it was a cold or flu... it doesn’t bother me either way. I do know that I’ve officially had the flu and been able to operate with some level of normality, if massively fatigued.

Either way; he wasn’t well and still managed ok up until things unravelled. The spin was uncharacteristic but given nigh on everyone span; it’s neither here nor there.