When you think of Formula One drivers you tend to think of great skill and high speeds. It’s no small thing to whip the car around the track without incident at the speeds they reach. It’s also why the cars don’t fare well when an accident does happen.

On the other hand you would not expect go-kart racing to be too difficult. The speeds are lower and you would expect the handling to be much easier. Comparatively you might expect that give the levels of difficultly if you took a Formula One race driver and put him in a go-kart, everything would be alright. That’s what Lewis Hamilton thought as well, I’m sure.

But Mr. Hamilton proved himself as human as the rest of us. He did wind up crashing a charity bought go-kart Thursday. While he has had no difficulty winning from the pole position in an American grand prix, it seems this was more challenging.

Who knew?