No driver on the grid has diversified beyond the grid as much as Lewis Hamilton has, especially in recent years. The Brit is still considered a championship contender at his advanced age but he has started thinking beyond the sport. Among many of his ventures, there is one that is making big waves, and as it turns out Kobe Bryant was an inspiration behind it.

The late NBA legend has inspired an entire generation and Hamilton is among those many. However, Bryant’s inspiration for Hamilton has nothing to do with sports. In fact, the Brit credited Bryant for a completely different venture in life.

Lewis Hamilton reveals Kobe Bryant’s influence behind Dawn Apollo Films

The Brit is in cahoots with Apple and Brad Pitt for the upcoming $140 million mega F1 movie project. Hamilton is part of the project as a producer and is making his contribution by making the highly anticipated movie as authentic as possible. As it turns out, Kobe Bryant was the inspiration behind Dawn Apollo Films, Hamilton’s production company which he revealed during a conversation with Jay Shetty on his podcast at the start of the year.

“I started this production company inspired by Kobe and so many out there. – I think storytelling is so so important for people out there for inspiring people and I want to make sure that in and everything that I do and every project I work on is with a diverse workforce. Like I’m doing this one movie with Brad Pitt and Joe Kosinski but my job’s to make sure that it’s diverse behind the camera as it is on screen.”

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Shetty on his podcast also revealed Bryant’s mission was to make short movies and do some storytelling in his life post-NBA to share the messages he resonates with the world. Perhaps Hamilton will embark on the same journey with Dawn Apollo Films. Just one of the many times the stars of these stars align and one inspires the other. Although, Bryant has done so on more than one occasion in Hamilton’s life.

Lewis Hamilton quotes Kobe Bryant to hit back at his haters

After winning a staggering seven world championships and breaking multiple records Hamilton has converted a lot of people into his fans. However, he has also made as many people hate him for whatever reason, perhaps it is true what they say, if you don’t have people hate you, you’re not doing great things.

Whatever the logic behind the hate, the Brit is usually ignorant of the backlash he receives regularly, except one time.

On one occasion back in 2020, Hamilton did not sit quietly and wanted to silence his doubters and so he did. However, instead of going on a rant, he did it in a classy way in limited words. This is when Bryant influenced the Brit again as he chose his famous quotes to post on his story as a fitting reply to all the criticism.

He wrote, “Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.”

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The Brit surely has a lot of good problems and collecting haters is one of them. From Bryant’s mouth to Hamilton’s story the quote keeps getting more relevant every passing year.