Hamilton's run out of allies? Brundle opens the door for his F1 retirement!
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Lewis Hamilton's outing in Hungary probably shattered many of his fans hearts. For former driver now Sky Sports F1 analyst Martin Brundle the situation is no different.
In his post race column for Sky Sports, Brundle observed the Hungarian Grand Prix as one of the most difficult in Hamilton's career.
"I'm not looking forward to writing this next section," he said, only to give the reason imediately afterwards.
"It's about Lewis Hamilton, who endured what must have been one of the worst weekends of his career, in and out of the car."
Brundle saw a downbeat and self-punishing Hamilton in Hungary
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Remembering the 7-time world champion's qualifying result of P12 in contrast to his teammate Charles Leclerc's pole position, he also highlighted Hamilton's post qualifying comments of being useless and suggesting Ferrari to swap drivers.
"That was best left unsaid, but he obviously wanted to openly punish himself," opined Brundle.
Brundle is of the idea that Hamilton is personally in a 'difficult place' going on to mention the now Ferrari driver's lack of progression during the Hungarian Grand Prix.
"He sat in the car in parc ferme post-race for what seemed an age [and] was very downbeat in interviews again."
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Hamilton didn't even want to fight his case in incident with Verstappen
As Max Verstappen revealed, Martin Brundle also noticed that Hamilton was not even present in the Stewards' room to contest the incident between the two at Turn 4, which Brundle described as a 'rather ambitious' maneuver by the Dutchman.
"He didn't want to contest the incident and conceded via his team, but Max did attend the meeting with a rational explanation from his viewpoint, and avoided a penalty.
Brundle opens the F1 retirement door for Hamilton
Brundle then concluded that the summer break F1 went into right after the Hungarian Grand Prix couldn't have been more timely for Hamilton.
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"It's painful to observe this great champion in so much strife, and we have to expect that he can weather the storm and return to form given his talent and experience,"
Like Ralf Schumacher previously stated in the German branch of Sky Sports, Brundle believes that if Hamilton can't increase his level of performance, then retirement is in the cards.
"But otherwise I simply can't see him enduring two more seasons at Ferrari, or anywhere else, like this."
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