The media pressed him on Monaco but Montreal and Mercedes were the only M words Lewis Hamilton wanted to talk about yesterday.

The double Formula One world champion faced repeated questions about the pitstop gaffe that denied him victory in the principality 10 days ago –and each time he replied with a verbal block.

What happened in Monaco, stayed in Monaco was the message.

The memory of that needless late pitstop, dropping him from first to third with the race all but won, was banished to the back of his mind and he was not about to relive the pain.

“I don’t look back, I’m looking forwards,” the Mercedes driver said ahead of Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

“I have not really thought about the last race for a long time, I’ve just been thinking about the next race and putting my mind to other things, training and trying to come back strong this weekend,” added the Briton.

“It is really irrelevant what happened in the past now, there’s nothing you can do about it so there’s no point dwelling on it,” he emphasised.

“I’m really not going back to Monaco,” he added when asked another question about his thoughts on that race and why he had stopped at the Portier corner before the tunnel – the one closest to his apartment – afterwards.

“I’ve moved on. I don’t even have to think about it. I couldn’t care less about it.”

Hamilton leads German teammate Nico Rosberg by 10 points ahead of Sunday’s race.