“I still have a dream”

Lewis Hamilton’s first season at Ferrari didn’t reside as much as expectation, and his disappointing outcomes sparked questions concerning the seven-time Formulation 1 world champion’s future within the collection. The 40-year-old has sought to silence his naysayers, arguing that he ‘nonetheless has a dream’ holding him in F1.

Hamilton joined the Scuderia initially of 2025 following 12 marketing campaign with Mercedes, which noticed him clinch six of his seven titles. The Briton’s success coupled with a title problem from Ferrari in 2024 left many anticipating a critical problem from the group this season.

That did not occur, as Ferrari dropped from second to fourth within the constructors’ standings and neither Hamilton nor team-mate Charles Leclerc picked up a grand prix win in 2025. The disappointing outcomes led some to recommend that Hamilton ought to retire from F1, as a substitute of seeing out his multi-year contract on the Italian outfit.

When requested for a response to these questioning his future after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the seven-time world champion stated: “I would not say something to them. None of them have completed what I’ve completed, so they are not even on my degree.”

Hamilton’s highpoint of the yr was his one victory, the China sprint race, and his low was in direction of the tip of the season when he turned the primary full-time Ferrari F1 driver to be knocked out in Q1 at three consecutive grands prix.

Whereas the stellar outcomes that Hamilton is used to did not arrive this yr, he outlined what has saved him targeted over the course of a tricky marketing campaign.

“It is the love for what you do, it is the love for racing,” he stated. “I’ve bought superb help from folks round me, my followers. It is that fixed maintaining a tally of the dream. I nonetheless have a dream that I maintain hope in my coronary heart for and that is what I work in direction of.”

As Hamilton defined when he signed for Ferrari, that dream is to win races and championships with F1’s most historic group. The upcoming regulation change that may hit F1 subsequent yr is the Briton’s greatest likelihood, as Ferrari switched focus to the new era back in April.

Nonetheless, if the wins don’t come and Hamilton does step away from the collection, there’ll no less than be one facet of F1 that he gained’t miss. “I can not wait to get away from all this. Each week, photoshoots and all that type of stuff,” he added. “That is the factor I sit up for someday, not having to do all of it.”

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– The Motorsport.com Staff