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Sir Jackie Stewart this week called on Lewis Hamilton to retire. The three-time world champion said of the seven-time winner: ‘It’s time to resign. He’s got music, he’s got culture, he loves clothing, and the rag trade would be absolutely suitable for him.
‘I’m sure he’ll be very successful because he’s been earning a huge amount of money — rightfully so because he’s been the best of his time.’
Jonathan McEvoy, who has covered Hamilton’s entire career since just before he burst on to the Formula One scene in 2007, looks at the case for and against the 37-year-old Mercedes driver calling it a day.
SirJackie Stewart (left) recently called on Lewis Hamilton (right) to retire from Formula One
ABU DHABI 2021
This contentious race will act as a fulcrum in Lewis’s story, for good or bad.
He lost out on his much-desired eighth world title in the most acrimonious of circumstances to Max Verstappen. This was a blow to Lewis’s solar plexus, one he spent the winter trying to recover from. His father, Anthony, and step-mother, Linda, shared an unusually long amount of time with him in America trying to lift his spirits.
Despite his team principal Toto Wolff wondering if Lewis would be back — and insiders talking about it being heartache from which he would never recover — Hamilton returned for this season.
For the first time, he wore a slight paunch (a very slight one). It, perhaps, told of a difficult off-season. The psychological impact was greater than the physical, as all would admit.
The psychological impact of the disappointment in Abu Dhabi last year was big on Hamilton
GEORGE RUSSELL
At 24, his team-mate George Russell is full of belief, and exhibits an excess of pace.
One doctor who deals with various drivers opined, privately, that the younger Englishman is the fittest man on the grid. That must be sobering for Hamilton, who
