Hamilton still focused on Ferrari success despite ...

Lewis Hamilton stated he was delivered a “curveball” of a query on the Miami Grand Prix when he was requested about David Beckham turning 50 this weekend.

The 2 are associates and beforehand shared the identical company and, having just a few seconds to think about his reply, Hamilton spoke extra about what Beckham has carried out since retiring from a soccer profession that noticed him win a number of trophies and captain his native England.

It may have been seen as telling that Hamilton was impressed by Beckham’s post-playing profession achievements, given he’s now within the twilight of his time in Formulation 1.

Having gained seven world championships, extra races than anybody else and shone for a lot of a season, Hamilton has hit the skids since transferring to Ferrari for 2025.

Aside from a shock dash race win in Shanghai, the 40-year-old has endured a troublesome begin to life with the Scuderia to the extent that Ralf Schumacher has even steered he ought to retire this summer season.

However, as he addressed the media on Thursday afternoon in Miami, it was apparent that bettering his Ferrari kind is entrance and centre of his thoughts – even when he’s set to co-chair the Met Gala, an annual fundraising occasion at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.

Requested what he can be sporting, Hamilton bullishly replied: “I do not even know. I’ve probably not put a lot thought into it.

“It is wonderful working with Anna (Wintour) and her workforce. It has been a privilege. To have the ability to proceed to do stuff in trend is enjoyable.

“Anna’s been actually understanding – I have not had quite a lot of time to do an enormous quantity with it, however the work has been in drips over the previous two years already with Anna. So yeah, excited for folks to see it.”

Hamilton may not have relocated to Italy, nonetheless residing in Monaco, however he did discuss how a lot he enjoys travelling to Maranello – and never simply to work on ironing out the issues plaguing his begin at Ferrari.

“I find it irresistible. Making an attempt to remain off the pizzas and the pasta, which I am not doing very nicely with if I am sincere,” he stated.

“I used to be there final week and had like three pizzas in two days. I’ve my hookup – he retains bringing me a pizza. I textual content him late after the day and I am like, “Hey, can I get a pizza?” He retains bringing me one.

“However yeah, I actually am having fun with it. Not residing in Italy presently, however spending extra time remains to be one thing I actually wish to try to determine how you can do via the yr. My Italian is just not actually progressing, so I’ve most likely bought to throw myself extra into the thick of it.

“However the workforce’s been nicely. A number of modifications, an enormous quantity of labor has been occurring from my first days there to regulate sure issues, for instance within the sim, and everybody’s been actually responsive and massively supportive. So I’ve actually appreciated it.”