- ‘I don’t even know if I’m going to be here next season’
- Mercedes’ Toto Wolff plans to step down from current role
Lewis Hamilton is giving serious consideration to calling time on his long and glittering Formula One career at the end of the season. The world champion made the claim after victory at Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, suggesting that at the age of 35 he is ready to focus on “family and those sort of things”.
Victory at Imola was Hamilton’s ninth of the season and moved him ever closer to matching Michael Schumacher’s record of seven F1 titles having already surpassed the German’s record of Formula One race victories. The win also secured a seventh consecutive constructors’ title for Mercedes, with whom Hamilton has yet to agree a new contract. It is a source of uncertainty for the team, which was significantly heightened on Sunday after the team principal, Toto Wolff, confirmed that while he will still be at Mercedes next year, he plans to step down from his current position. Hamilton and Wolff both joined Mercedes in 2013 and, when asked if Wolff’s decision would have any impact, Hamilton was blunt.
