Lewis Hamilton often discusses the importance of music in his life (Image: Getty)
In and , have a driver line-up with a wealth of musical experience. The Brit has even collaborated with some of the industry’s biggest names, although a partnership with Drake once failed to materialise.
The pair have both released their own tunes, but while Leclerc’s releases have been limited to piano melodies, Hamilton tried his hand at writing lyrics. The Brit even featured on a Christina Aguilera track called ‘Pipe’ in 2018 under the pseudonym XNDA.
Initially, XNDA’s identity was a secret, but Hamilton later revealed that he was the man behind the artist two years after ‘Pipe’ was released. However, the 40-year-old has not featured on another track under that identity since then.
“I had this incredibly beautiful and talented person reach out to me a while back asking for me to be on her album, I was so blown away and I jumped at the opportunity,” he wrote on .
“I had two hours to write the short verse and record. The goal was to have the music come out under a different name so that you could hear the music first and later know it was me but it didn’t work out the way I’d planned.
“I shied away from acknowledging it was me, I don’t know why, maybe insecurities, fear, overthinking, something I think many people can relate to. Well I want to say that XNDA is me.”
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Drake was good friends with Lewis Hamilton earlier in the Brit’s career (Image: Getty)
Three years before the release of ‘Pipe’, Hamilton teased a collaboration with one of the industry’s biggest stars. “A collaboration with Drake is on the cards,” he said in 2015. “We will release something at some point, but I’m just recording for fun at the moment.”
The Brit had previously said: “I’ve heard a lot of bad songs in the charts recently, and I have stuff that we and other people say is better… I’ve probably made about 25 to 30 songs.”
Unfortunately for fans of the seven-time world champion, Hamilton’s collaboration with Drake never materialised. In fact, the Stevenage-born driver has only ever publicly released one song, although he continues to write and record tracks without the intention of making them public.
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“Music is the biggest part of my life, it’s the most important thing that keeps me sane,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.
“In a sport where you don’t feel like you could fit in, where you know you’re different, but you can’t really talk too much, and there’s no way to express yourself other than in a car… to then have music and be able to put my feelings out into something [is important].”