Seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has said he wants to spend more time in Brazil and has indicated his approval of an attempt to make him an honorary citizen.
The Briton, decorated by his own country, was in São Paulo to give a lecture at an event focused on business and digital transformation.
Past speakers at VTEX Day have included former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former US President Barack Obama and British businessman Richard Branson.
“I want to spend more time here in Brazil… It’s such a beautiful culture. I’ve only been to Rio and São Paulo, but I want to go back for Christmas or New Year’s or something,” Hamilton said.
“Neymar invites me every year, and Gabriel [Medina] invites me every year, but I never had the chance… I’m waiting for my Brazilian passport.”
A bill to make the 37-year-old pilot an honorary citizen of Brazil is pending in the Chamber of Deputies.
The measure was proposed by deputy André Figueiredo (PDT-CE) after the Brazilian GP last year, in which Hamilton held the Brazilian flag after winning at the Interlagos circuit in São Paulo.
The crowd chanted his name along with that of three-time world champion Ayrton Senna, a national hero who died in Imola in 1994 and is named by Hamilton as his childhood idol.
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