After the tightest World Cup decision in Formula 1 in recent years to the disadvantage of Mercedes superstar Lewis Hamilton, it was quiet about the record champion. Speculations about the resignation of the British made the rounds, Hamilton himself remained in silence until the end. A decision about his future in Formula 1 should have long been made.
The Italian Formula 1 insider and sports journalist Franco Nugnes reported on the Italian offshoot of “motorsport.com“That Lewis Hamilton had long discussed with his long-time successful Mercedes team and determined how things would go in the coming F1 season.
According to the report, the 36-year-old has informed the successful German-British constructor that he will not give up his cockpit for 2022 and will fulfill his contract with Mercedes, which runs until 2022.
After the bitter disappointment in Abu Dhabi, when Hamilton lost the driver’s title, which had already been believed to be safe, to Max Verstappen in the Red Bull in the very last lap of the Formula 1 season in 2021, the record world champion had recently withdrawn in the media and was even the obligatory one FIA gala for the award of Verstappen as driver and Mercedes as constructor world champion stayed away.
A statement or even an announcement by the Briton that he could no longer return to Formula 1 in 2022 should, according to the Italian media report, never have been made.
Wollf fueled speculation about Hamilton’s resignation
The speculations about a possible Hamilton resignation were mainly fueled by Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff himself, when he said in an interview after the lost World Cup in Abu Dhabi: “I just have to do everything I can to help him, to overcome these current feelings so that he can return strengthened for the next year. […] We very much hope that this will be the case. “
So will Lewis Hamilton actually continue to drive for Mercedes in 2022. he would go into his tenth Formula 1 season for the team. Since 2014, the seven-time world champion has won the constructors’ title eight times in a row with Mercedes. After Nico Rosberg (2013 to 2016 and Valtteri Bottas (2017 to 2021), George Russell will become the third teammate of the 103-time Grand Prix winner on the works team in the coming year.
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