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Was this the best racing driver excuse of 2015?

Why was Lewis Hamilton's Hungarian Grand Prix his scruffiest race of 2015? Blame Ridley Scott and Matt Damon... The librarian stared at me, blankly. I repeated the request. She checked again, then repeated: “There’s definitely no such publication, I’m afraid.” I couldn’t believe it. I’d read about so many references to The Racing Drivers’ Book of Excuses in motorsport magazines that I was certain it was, y’know, an actual thing. But a 12-year-old me found out that it was actually a mythical tome, the stuff of legend. Since then, after covering racing for over 25 years, I’ve heard plenty of racing drivers’ excuses. And if I’d have written them all down, I could have...
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