Hamilton candid about Roscoe: 'My house feels quiet without him'
Lewis Hamilton weighs in on the Mexican Grand Prix's tribute for Roscoe. Photo: RacePictures.
Updated: 19:12, 24 Oct 2025
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Lewis Hamilton has reacted to the Mexico City Grand Prix's tribute of Roscoe, the British star's beloved pooch who recently passed away, whilst addressing the impact pet-ownership has had on his overall life.
I still have his bed and his toys everywhere so he's still much a part of the furniture.- Lewis Hamilton
In between the race weekends in Azerbaijan and Singapore, Roscoe lost the battle against pneumonia perishing at the age of 12. His bulldog's death was addressed during the Mexican GP's media day, prompting Hamilton to reflect on how pet-ownership has affected his life from the beginning.
He said: "I grew up with dogs so when I was born my parents had a labrador. He was three years old but in almost all my baby pictures he's laying next to me, so it was really my guardian angel.
"The saddest day of my life, when I was younger, the first traumatic kind of experience was losing him when I was, I think I was six, and I never got to say goodbye."
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His love for dogs, trascended into all animals, prompting a life changing decision for the seven-time world champion.
Lewis Hamilton and Roscoe. Photo: RacePictures.
"That's really why I decided to go plant-based," he added.
"When I decided I was gonna get my own dog everyone in my family, my brother and his girlfriend at the time they were like 'no way, the dog will not be able to live because you're traveling so much' and I hate when someone says I can't do something."
Hamilton is known for undertaking many activities that have a social impact. Revealing he'd visited a prison, he highlighted how dogs were able to teach inmates about unconditional love, further empowering his statement regarding the positive impact he believes animals have.
"You learn about a lot of empathy. You feel just love that you could not get from anywhere else really. Maybe you get it from your mom.
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Roscoe passed away after losing a battle against pneumonia
"They bring such happiness to you. Now every day when you leave, when you get up, when you leave, when you go and have your walks, they're always wanting to play and they're just the most joyous beings in the world.
Hamilton then revealed that despite Roscoe being gone, he's still very much still present in the seven-time world champion's life.
"So, for me it's kind of my house is really quiet now because I don't have a Roscoe or Coco in my life, but I still have his bed and his toys everywhere so he's still much a part of the furniture.
"I think I feel very very grateful that I've grown up with pets and that if I was to have kids I would encourage anyone out there to have a pet in the house because it really does bring you a lot of warmth."
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Mexico City Grand Prix makes special tribute for Roscoe
The Mexico City Grand Prix organisation made a tribute for Roscoe. When asked for his thoughts on his bulldog's statue at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Hamilton said: "I mean, that's lovely.
"It's been a really interesting experience. I felt like I'm connecting with people so much more through this kind of grief period because obviously so many people experience grief and so many people, like yourself, have lost a loved one this year.
"So for me it's been just really encouraging to see just in a time in the world where everything feels you know it feels it can feel very dark and there is such a great divide and particularly when you look at the people that are running these countries seem to have no empathy.
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"It's great to see that there is a lot of people out there with good hearts and that do care and I'm reminded like every day when I meet someone that the fans at the last race maybe [with] paintings and drawings of Roscoe. So, like he's always gonna be a big part of my life."
In Mexico dogs are believed to be guardians who help their former owners cross the river into immortality after they've passed. Hamilton thinks it'll be the other way around.
"Yeah, he'll be asking me to carry him over the river probably, because he never liked water," he concluded.
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