McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has said he accepts the risk of dying in a Formula One car as he follows his passion for racing to the limit.

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Seven times world champion Michael Schumacher, still racing for Mercedes at the age of 42, told reporters earlier in the week that he took a fatalistic approach to a sport he has been involved in for two decades.

The German said total safety was impossible in any walk of life but pointed out to the huge improvements made in Formula One since the death of triple champion Ayrton Senna in 1994, the sport's last driver fatality in a race.

"If on top something happens, then that's what I would call fate and fate is something that we all have to face sooner or later," said Schumacher.

"I'm certainly very touched by what has happened for both of the drivers that we have lost but unfortunately you have to say that's life."

Many of the drivers will carry tributes to Wheldon and Simoncelli, with the Briton's initials and the Italian's racing number 58 on cars and helmets, but Hamilton hesitated to say their deaths had been down to fate.

The Briton, who recently split with his American singer girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger, told reporters he was now fully focused on his Formula One career.

"I don't know how you turn a page in life, I don't think there's a textbook way of doing it. I think life is like a puzzle, you've just got to get things in place," Hamilton said after Saturday qualifying.

"Formula One is a massively competitive sport where you have to have clear thoughts, you just have to live and breathe Formula One. There's no room for anything else really.

"So I plan to eliminate everything else in my life outside, obviously not my family or anything like that, that can be a distraction. That's a start."

In a brutal self-assessment, Hamilton said his driving had been his 'biggest hazard' this season.