2016 Formulation 1 champion Nico Rosberg has urged his former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton not to surrender on Ferrari or retire from the sequence after his robust first season with the Maranello outfit.
Hamilton has struggled to adapt to Ferrari since becoming a member of in 2025, which has led to questions on his future within the championship.
The Briton has made it clear he’s keen to place the present laws behind him and stay up for 2026.
“I believe he has to proceed,” Rosberg advised Sky Sports activities F1. “Stopping now is just not cool. He solely simply began this Ferrari undertaking. To surrender after just one season would not work.
“He has to proceed, give it one other shot and hope he feels snug in that next-year automobile. Possibly the automobile is an efficient automobile? This yr’s automobile is just not nice. His nice battle this yr was qualifying tempo.
“Within the race there was flashes of brilliance that we saved seeing. It is simply qualifying tempo and with the automobile being so totally different subsequent yr, possibly he can discover a few of that previous magic once more in qualifying. The hope remains to be there, positively.”
Former driver and Sky Sports activities analyst Martin Brundle added: “The difficulty is his stats and his status is just not being enhanced with this. I’d have thought he’ll wait to see if Ferrari get it collectively for 2026.
Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
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“He’ll see how he is going and the way they’re going and if he is having fun with. I believe if we’re asking that query a yr from now and he is had a tough season, it might be fully totally different. I’d be very stunned if he simply switches it off this winter.”
Whereas Hamilton’s post-race interview following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was pretty doom and gloom, he claimed that the eagerness of his followers, the help round him and his love for racing are what push him to maintain going.
“It is the love for what you do. It is the love for racing,” the seven-time champion stated. “I’ve obtained superb help from individuals round me, my followers. It is that fixed keeping track of the dream. I nonetheless have a dream that I maintain hope in my coronary heart for, and that is what I work in direction of.”
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