Lewis Hamilton to take retirement? British driver reacts after nightmare season with Ferrari

Lewis Hamilton has disclosed his stance on possibly retiring from F1 after the end of the 2025 season. The seven-time F1 champion has had a difficult season with Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton to take retirement?

Things seemed nice for Hamilton at the start of the season after he won the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint race. Sadly, that would turn out to be the only time he stood on a podium this season. The British race struggled in adjusting to Ferrari's car, which, unfortunately for him, has tanked in his performance with each passing race weekend.

Lewis Hamilton has sent suggestions to the Ferrari HQ in Maranello for improvement in operational efficiency, but finds his undesirable record of most races with the Scuderia without a single podium finish increasing. At the recently finished Qatar Grand Prix weekend, he faced elimination in Q1 in both Sprint qualifying and the feature qualifying, and couldn't secure a single point in the races.

In a post-race interview, Hamilton was questioned if he wanted to continue racing with Ferrari in 2026 or think about the scenario in the offseason.

"No, No, no," he replied. "I wanna... I’m excited for a new generation of car because this has been the worst-designed one that I remember, probably at least in my phase. Maybe the 2009 generation was pretty bad also, but at least we had better tires and better grip."

"But this one’s just with the bouncing and stiffness, all these mix of things, it’s just not been an enjoyable period, and we had the worst racing. None of us can overtake. What’s the point of having a race if no one can overtake?"

Lewis Hamilton's reply focused more on the setbacks of the current ground-effects cars than on his disappointing season with Ferrari. However, it seemed appropriate, considering that he has failed to adapt with this generation of cars since it was introduced in 2022, even with Mercedes.

Keeping his personal struggles aside, the ground-effect cars have failed to live up to the hype that they would improve overtaking. Cars have become difficult, with the dirty air proving detrimental to the follower's tires.