Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff: Lewis Hamilton will ‘be the first to say I can’t compete’
The 37-year-old, whose current deal is due to expire at the end of next season, recently revealed he is168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: planning to sign a neಞw “multi-year” con🌄tract with Mercedes to keep ra𓂃cing until at least 2025.
Hamilton did not originally intend on racing into his 40s, but after being denied a record-breaking eighth world title in the controversial 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix amid defeat to Red Bull's 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, 🤪he insists Mercedes “have a championshiꩲp that we need to get back”.
Speaking on the podcast hosted by Ben Ainslie and wife Georgie, Wolff stressed Hamilton will retir🥂e when he feels he has reached his ‘shelf life’ a♉s a racing driver.
“Lewis is totally mature and conscious about where he 𓄧stands in his career,” Wolff said. “He’s not being led by his emotions, like I’ve seen with sportspeople that think it can go on forever and trying to hang on to it.
“Lewis is rational and in💜telligent about it. He says ‘I know I have a shelf life as a ൲racing driver’.
“Lewis knows that one day he will not be the best himself anymore. That hasn’t happened yet. But we’ve been talking about it. He said ‘I’d love to continue…do you think we can do an🃏other five to 10 years?’ But this is moꩲre jokingly.
“I think he has a few good years left in him and 🦩he will be the first one to say ‘I don’t think I can compete against a 24-year-old that is as good as I was or even close to how I was’ and that is simply how it goes.”
Hamilton has many interests outside of F1 including in the fashion, music and film industries, w♔hile he also recently become a part-owner of NFL team the Denver Broncos.
Wolff has backed Hamilton to “reinvent himself” in “a second or third career” when he does decide to hang up his helmet and stop racing.&💃nbsp;
“I have no doubt Lewis Hamilton is not only the greatest racing driver, with Michael [Schumacher𓄧] in a way, but he will also be successful in his own way, in a second or thir🌳d career and reinventing himself,” he said.
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