Lewis Hamilton ready to keep racing for ‘another five years’ according to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff

Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes contract expires in 2023 (Photograph: Getty)

Sir Lewis Hamilton has stated that he desires to remain in Formulation 1 for the following 5 years and hold racing into his 40s.

That's in response to his Mercedes boss Toto Wolff who revealed that the pair have been in talks over extending his stick with the Silver Arrows.

Hamilton’s contract expires on the finish of 2023, and he’ll flip 39 the next yr.

The seven-time world champion has given blended messages previously about when he might retire, having stated that he doesn’t see himself in F1 in his 40s but in addition that he nonetheless has much more to provide on the monitor.

And if Wolff is something to go by, it appears like we’ll be seeing the British sporting legend on the grid for the following few seasons at the very least.

‘Simply final week we sat down and he [Hamilton] says, “look, I've one other 5 years in me, how do you see that?”,’ Wolff advised Channel 4.

‘Over time we've got simply grown collectively. We're completely clear with one another. The benefit is we converse loads collectively [both live near each other in Monaco].

Toto Wolff is assured Hamilton will prolong his stick with the Silver Arrows (Photograph: Getty)

‘Lewis would be the first one to say, “I can’t do that anymore as a result of I really feel I haven’t acquired the reactions anymore, or I’ve simply misplaced enjoyable doing it and there's one other technology rising up that's simply very sturdy”.

‘So, I've little doubt that no matter we agree on a contract extension, which goes to occur, that we each are all the time going to debate, very brazenly, what does the longer term maintain.’

Hamilton got here near strolling away from the game after final season’s finale the place he misplaced the championship to Max Verstappen underneath very controversial circumstances.

At 41, Fernando Alonso is the oldest driver on the F1 grid (Photograph: Getty)

He stayed, and it's believed that he's very eager to win a record-breaking eighth title earlier than retirement.

Whereas more and more uncommon, it's not remarkable for drivers to proceed racing into their 40s as a result of physicality wanted to race an F1 automotive, with 41-year-old Fernando Alonso set to proceed racing till at the very least the tip of 2024.

‘I don’t know if 40 is that age the place you say that isn't satisfactory anymore for a racing driver,’ Wolff added.

‘In the event you take a look at the place Fernando is, he’s nonetheless very a lot there. Now, is he the identical Fernando that he was at 25? I don’t know, however he’s very aggressive nonetheless.

‘So, Lewis, with the best way he leads his life, with the complete, ultra-narrow concentrate on his Formulation 1 racing – all of the others are simply hobbies – I believe he can take it fairly far.’

.

.