Hamilton in F1 for 'another decade at least'

Even more reason for me to hope that the rest of the field (especially Ferrari) will catch MB with the "newly designed" cars next year.

 

LH will stay in as long as he is competitive, and any team that has a winning car will be trying to sign him......don't bet against him ending his career in a Ferrari, just because that's what Senna wanted to do.

 

Well what about him ready to pack it in after the Spanish GP. Sounds like he can leave anytime. He wasn't challenged much for the lead with a superior car.

 

Elton spouts bull**** to please who ever he needs to please at a given time.

10 more years in F1? I'll take that bet. Not a **** he will do 10 more years.
















Unless he wants that bernie protection money.

 

Love him or hate him, given the crop of bland personalities in F1 recently, it would be duller without him.

 

+1
Once Max starts handing him his arse, LH will either start complaining about his car, or leave

 

Not really vs Ricci. Ricci has an engaging personality LH dreams of.

 

He smiles a lot, I'll give you that.

 

We have another Hamilton sycophant on the forum.

 

Yawn...who cares?

 

Say what you will about the guy but he's driven to win. He's probably going to catch michael for poles and has a shot at his win record if the car stays competitive. Doubtful he'll have 7 wdcs but four or five seems very possible.

 

Oh yay...

 

Well, there are 40% more races each year now, and reliability is almost 100%, so it's pretty easy for him to beat michaels pole record, points record (with 250% extra points on offer), probably wins record, etc etc while his car remains dominant, and as the rules are at their most inflexible and Mercedes-friendly, no reason to doubt they won't remain capable of being at the top for the foreseeable.

The days of being able to use pure numbers to compare drivers went out the window a few years ago. Now, peop,e will measure drivers not only on their success, but on how they achieved it, and there, elton scores a big fat zero.

 

+1 Absolutely

 

Looking fwd to that

 

Nah, Mercedes will lose their competitiveness at some point and he will go back to being just another quick driver and nothing special

 

I predict they will stay until the announcement of the next formula and then bow out.

They will probably sell the team, and go back being only engine supplier.

 

There is always another way of looking at things which aren't as bitter and twisted. What is wrong with hoping that we see some proper competitive racing across all teams next year as a result of them actually improving rather than Mercedes cocking things up. Redbull need to pull their finger out, Williams need to show some consistency and Ferrari need to actually turn up without a self-destruct mentality.

Being realistic, Mercedes have been too good over the last few seasons to drop the ball to the extent you hope. They just aren't going to have a McLaren phase, however much you hope.

 

+1

 

Or you will see the former Brawn team revert back to being again named after its principle and become ' Lauda F1'

 

Don't think so, I always heard Rats (even "Super Rats") abandon a sinking ship.

 

Another decade? What makes him so confident there will still be F1 in a decade?

 

Who said I was hoping for anything of the sort, trouble is, unless the rules are amended to allow testing, the rest won't catch whoever has the best car in race one the way they are written. F1 is almost over, and the rule makers don't see the wood for the trees