Lewis Hamilton: 'My father and I are close again'

Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he has reconciled with his father Anthony.

The relationship between the pair is said to have become strained following Hamilton's decision to drop his father as manager in 2010 and team up with Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment group.

"We're now starting to have that father-son relationship where you know we go bowling together," Hamilton told Sir David Frost in an Al Jazeera interview, according to the Daily Mail.

"We go on holiday together and we have more to talk about and none of it's business."

Meanwhile, reports have claimed that Hamilton is trying to rekindle his romance with singer Nicole Scherzinger following their split after five years together.