Just In: A hidden clause in Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren contract was the subject of discussion as his “career was over.”

In Sunday’s F1 news, Lewis Hamilton talks about being told that his career was “over,” and there is a discussion about a rumoured clause in Oscar Piastri’s McLaren contract.

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Lewis Hamilton remembers what Mercedes told him after McLaren’s choice to leave.
Lewis Hamilton has opened up about how happy he was to win with Mercedes after being told his “career was over” when he left McLaren in 2012.

The British driver won six World Championships in seven years starting in 2014. He was paired with Hamilton on Mercedes, which is the most successful team-driver partnership in F1 history.

In 2020, Hamilton tied Michael Schumacher for the most titles with seven. The next year, he became the first driver in history to win more than 100 races and get pole positions more than 100 times.

Hamilton announced earlier this year that he will be joining Ferrari on a multi-year deal starting in F1 2025. He also talked about how quickly people’s views changed when he started winning with Mercedes, even though everyone told him to stay with McLaren.

Do you think McLaren will make a deal with Mark Webber to help Lando Norris win the title?
Steiner has asked McLaren to make a deal with Mark Webber, Oscar Piastri’s boss, to help Lando Norris win the F1 title in 2024.

McLaren chose not to follow team orders at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. Piastri and Norris fell from being locked out of the front row to second and third place, while Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won at Monza.

Some people think, but haven’t confirmed, that Piastri’s contract has a rule that stops him from being used as Norris’s wingman to help him win the title.

Steiner, who used to be the head of the Haas team, thinks that McLaren should talk to Webber, who is Piastri’s boss and a former Red Bull driver, about the problem if a deal is already in place.

Red Bull was accused of “faking it” when it came to Sergio Perez’s choice.

Eddie Jordan, a former owner of an F1 team, says that Red Bull “faked it” when they said they were dropping Sergio Perez over the summer break. He says that the team’s choice to keep him on is likely to cost them the F1 2024 Constructors’ Championship.

After the Belgian Grand Prix in July, it looked like Red Bull was going to fire Perez. But 24 hours later, Christian Horner confirmed that the Mexican would be kept for the rest of the season.

Red Bull has an eight-point lead over McLaren going into next weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Jordan is sure that McLaren’s choice to keep Perez “will come back to bite them.”

Daniel Ricciardo thinks about his “controversial” choice to leave Red Bull.

Daniel Ricciardo said that his Formula One career would “look different” if he hadn’t made the “controversial” choice to leave Red Bull at the end of 2018, but he wouldn’t call it a mistake.

Ricciardo had the best years of his career with Red Bull from 2014 to 2018, when he won seven of his eight Formula One races. Then, out of the blue, he decided to join Renault for 2019.

The Australian has said he doesn’t feel bad about leaving Red Bull, but there’s no way to know for sure that he would have won the World Championship if he had stayed with them.

Before the Mercedes F1 2025 season starts, Eddie Jordan talks about Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s worries.

Eddie Jordan isn’t sure about Mercedes’ choice to sign Andrea Kimi Antonelli for the 2025 F1 season. He thinks Williams would have been a better fit for Jordan’s first season.

Lewis Hamilton’s replacement, Antonelli, was revealed at the Italian Grand Prix. The news came less than 24 hours after the teenage sensation crashed out of FP1 at Monza on his first F1 race weekend.

Jordan thinks that Mercedes should be more careful with Antonelli. He uses Red Bull’s choice to start Max Verstappen’s F1 career at VCARB (then Toro Rosso) as an example.