Hamilton to leave England

(GMM) Lewis Hamilton is considering leaving Britain to sidestep his growing fame and a rising tax bill.

The 22-year-old McLaren rookie says he enjoys living with his family, including his disabled brother who is in Barcelona this weekend, but refused to rule out moving to a place like Monaco.

After a period of media saturation in the British press, Hamilton said he noticed a huge difference when he returned home recently to discover his new fame.

"I have no idea what it's going to be like over the next two years," he said in an interview with the Sunday Times.

"If there is an escalation of interest I would have to reconsider — and also, of course, the tax situation can be a problem, not now but in the future."

Hamilton said when he went to visit his parents in England after the Bahrain GP, he found photographers already camped out and waiting for him to arrive.

"It was unreal," he explained. "I couldn't go outside. I was a prisoner in my own home."