{"id":53791,"date":"2025-08-08T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53791\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:56:09","slug":"crucial-lewis-hamilton-ferrari-contract-clause-emerges-after-hungarian-gp-meltdown-cast-doubt-on-f1-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53791\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial Lewis Hamilton Ferrari contract clause emerges after Hungarian GP meltdown cast doubt on F1 future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lewis Hamilton made an alarming statement in the media pen after qualifying P12 for the Hungarian Grand Prix last weekend, which cast doubt on his future with Ferrari in Formula 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/tag\/lewis-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton<\/a> seemed downtrodden with his comments after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/formula-1-calendar\/hungarian-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hungarian Grand Prix<\/a>, where he stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/unbelievable-lewis-hamilton-produced-one-out-of-character-moment-after-hungarian-grand-prix-qualifying\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari simply needs to change drivers<\/a> in order to enjoy the same results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/tag\/charles-leclerc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Leclerc<\/a> is tallying in the other SF-25.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has taken a hands-on approach with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/tag\/ferrari\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> engineers in the process of trying to make the SF-25 more comfortable in his own driving style.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the Belgian GP weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/lewis-hamilton-reveals-why-ferrari-has-lacked-recent-success-in-f1-and-what-hes-doing-to-fix-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton revealed that he\u2019s sent documents to Ferrari<\/a> in the past, outlining issues that he is having with the car in hopes of the engineers coming up with a solution.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/drivers\/who-is-lewis-hamilton-life-outside-of-f1-from-net-worth-to-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton\u2019s life outside F1 from net worth to family<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton holds the key to the option of extending his Ferrari contract into 2027<\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/ferrari-boss-fred-vasseur-may-have-granted-one-lewis-hamilton-demand-that-toto-wolff-rejected\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton\u2019s multi-year contract at Ferrari<\/a> was for two years, with an option to extend it for a third year, granted the team and driver are happy to do so. <\/p>\n<p>However, in a recent report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/motori\/ferrari\/08-08-2025\/hamilton-ferrari-restare-insieme-e-l-unica-scelta_preview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>, it is stated that the terms of the option to extend are in \u2018favour\u2019 of Hamilton, and the team don\u2019t have too much of a say in his place at Ferrari in 2027. This is one of the reasons for Hamilton being so hands-on with operations inside the team. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227458025-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton on track during qualifying for the 2025 F1 Hungarian Grand Prix\" class=\"wp-image-128186\" \/>Photo by Andrea Diodato\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The report goes on to state that he has spoken to Ferrari CEO John Elkann over \u2018solutions\u2019, pushed for the confirmation of Fred Vasseur\u2019s new deal, and sent the aforementioned documents over to engineers, all in an effort to get to grips with the SF-25 as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari \u2018will go along with him\u2019 no matter what, due to the major commercial implications that Hamilton\u2019s stature as a Ferrari driver brings with him. The report explains that the team has \u2018no other choice\u2019, with it being one of the repercussions of Elkann signing the \u2018most successful driver in history\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/teams\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-scuderia-ferrari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">All you need to know about Scuderia Ferrari from team principal to factory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferrari\u2019s competitiveness in 2026 will decide Lewis Hamilton\u2019s future in F1<\/p>\n<p>Despite his dispirited comments in Hungary after claiming his first points-less Grand Prix finish for Ferrari, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/gutted-lewis-hamilton-responds-when-asked-if-he-still-loves-racing-after-point-less-hungarian-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton clarified that he still loves racing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The seven-time world champion is still on the hunt for his eighth title, and believed Ferrari were the team to grant him that when the bombshell of his exit from Mercedes was announced before the start of the 2024 season. <\/p>\n<p>YEARTEAMWINS2008McLaren52014Mercedes112015Mercedes102017Mercedes92018Mercedes112019Mercedes112020Mercedes11Lewis Hamilton\u2019s Formula 1 championship-winning seasons<\/p>\n<p>However, as the ball is in Hamilton\u2019s court over the option to extend into 2027, next season will be key in determining whether he has it in him to race for a 21st consecutive season in Formula 1. <\/p>\n<p>If he shows poor pace in the overhauled 2026 Ferrari challenger, then it could be the last season that we see of Hamilton in F1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton made an alarming statement in the media pen after qualifying P12 for the Hungarian Grand Prix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,826,813,816,32451,823,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-53791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-ferrari","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-hungarian-grand-prix","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53791","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=53791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}