{"id":150628,"date":"2025-09-17T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150628\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:33:19","slug":"hamilton-addresses-potential-f1-retirement-date-amid-alonso-teasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150628\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton addresses potential F1 retirement date amid Alonso teasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/lewis-hamilton\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> joked about what could be his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> retirement date, while bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/fernando-alonso\" title=\"Fernando Alonso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Alonso<\/a> into the conversation at the same time.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905-0194-68caf0c0cdd21.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto\" alt=\"lewis-hamilton-monza-jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton in Monza &#8211; Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t plan to stop anytime soon&#8221;- Lewis Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with L\u2019Equipe, the seven-time world champion said he has no intention of hanging up his helmet anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t plan to stop anytime soon. I really appreciate that Fernando continues, because it means that he is older than me. I&#8217;m just going to keep going, until he&#8217;s 50.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Has Lewis Hamilton past his prime?So far, the former Mercedes driver has not had an easy first season at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a>. After sixteen races, the Englishman has yet to reach the podium, unlike his teammate, who has done so five times already.<\/p>\n<p>This is compounded by several statements he made during the season, including one in Hungary, when he described himself as \u201cuseless,\u201d urging the team to consider another driver.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, in recent years\u2014including his final seasons at Mercedes\u2014Hamilton, aside from a few occasional flashes of brilliance, hasn\u2019t been able to replicate the dominant form he showed during the hybrid era. This has led some to wonder if he has passed his prime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/is-lewis-hamilton-past-his-prime-ex-f1-driver-coulthard-thinks-so\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Addressing this very question on Channel 4, David Coulthard stated<\/a>: \u201cThe old cliche is it never rains, but it pours. It just feels that off the back of the end of his Mercedes run alongside George, he\u2019d lost his mojo there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hoped that he would rediscover it at Ferrari, be energised by the power of the Tifosi, but it just hasn\u2019t worked out This is not an opinion business, because I know there\u2019ll be people at home going, \u2018how dare you say something negative about Lewis Hamilton?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy is brilliant, and he has been brilliant, but you\u2019re judged against your teammate, and that\u2019s the one thing that stands between him right now and a big result. He\u2019s got to consistently get in front of Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> paddock update below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton joked about what could be his Formula 1 retirement date, while bringing Fernando Alonso into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-150628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}