“I would have liked to race in Ferrari like every driver but in the end I won a lot in Mercedes. It has become my life”
A few more days, then another F.1 season will end. It could be the second in a row in which Lewis Hamilton, seven-time world champion and winner of 103 GPs, fails to achieve a success. But the heavy and unexpected fast, given his leading role in the previous World Championships, instead of taking away his motivation, multiplied his desire to fight and the desire to go on the track and have fun. At 38 years old, and with a link with Mercedes that will continue until at least 2025, he has no intention of giving up, even though he knows he has to face a very tough climb. He speaks as a mature and resolved man: he learned a long time ago that life is not limited to racing, but racing remains central to his life. “We are suffering because we made the wrong technical choices, both last year and this year – he says -. As a team we took responsibility for the errors and tried to rectify the trajectory, but with the budget cap in force today it is difficult succeed: if you are technically three months behind the others you cannot catch up as in the past, when spending more was allowed. So we are focusing on what we have, gathering information and experiences to be able to try to be competitive in 2024”.