Anthony Hamilton crashes into kids’ playground

Lewis Hamilton must be glad that he hasn’t inherited his father’s driving ability. Dad Anthony crashed his grey Porsche Carrera GT cabriolet (pictured above) into a children’s playground yesterday, just metres from his home - luckily, no one was hurt in the accident. Hamilton Snr tried to reverse the car back on to the 30mph road near Tewin, Hertfordshire, with no joy.

“He was really trying to get it out of there,” an eyewitness said. “In the end his wife (Linda, Lewis’s stepmother) walked back to the house and picked him up in another car. She came back a couple of times but we never saw him again. He was really embarrassed.”

Cruel irony is a fickle mistress.