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Lewis Hamilton said “a lot of people are trying to get me to retire” and confirmed he has a contract with Ferrari until at least the end of 2027.
Hamilton joined Ferrari at the start of last year but struggled in his first campaign in 2025 – failing to finish on the podium for the first time in his career across a season.
The 41-year-old started the season well, claiming his first Ferrari podium in the second race in China, but lacked the pace of teammate Charles Leclerc in the final two races in Japan and Miami.
Hamilton signed a multi-year contract with Ferrari but the length of his contract was unknown. However, he suggested ahead of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix that he remains under contract for at least three years until the end of 2027.
“I’m still under contract, so everything is 100 percent clear to me,” he said when asked about his future for next season.
“I’m still focused, I’m still motivated. I still love what I do with all my heart, and I’m going to be here for a while, so get used to it,
“There are a lot of people who are trying to get me to retire, and it’s not all my thoughts. I’m already thinking about what’s next and planning for the next five years. But I still plan to be here for a while.”
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Lewis Hamilton admits he was ‘in tears’ after watching his beloved Arsenal win the Premier League after 22 years
Hamilton is the most successful F1 driver of all time with a record 105 wins and 104 pole positions but has yet to add to that tally at Ferrari.
The seven-time world champion was also asked about how he defines success at an intriguing news conference in Montreal on Thursday and revealed that he doesn’t think about his record.
“Outside results people call success, but I think, for me, it’s just progress. If you make progress, you’re going to be successful. I don’t really put too much pressure (on myself),” he said.
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Martin Brandl believes the Canadian Grand Prix could deliver drama this year, as new F1 cars face the challenge of the circuit’s demanding layout.
“I’ve always said I’m really grateful for the record and things like that, but they’re not things I ever think about. It’s something I think about every day, how do I tune my brain? Ultimately I really focus, you can tune yourself into believing what you want, and I’m always trying to work with my inner self to program myself not to look ahead.
“It’s part of the journey, but not necessarily the most important thing. The important thing is how you rise, it’s how you push forward, how you try to evolve, and just look forward, just always look forward and never look back.”
Hamilton explained the ‘no simulator’ approach for Canada
After a disappointing sprint weekend in Miami last time out, Hamilton said he was not going to use the simulator ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix as part of a change in his approach.
Hamilton has used the simulator more in the last 18 months at Ferrari than in his six seasons at McLaren and 12 seasons at Mercedes.
He had not used the simulator at Ferrari’s factory in Maranello before this year’s Chinese Grand Prix, where he had his best weekend yet in red and on the podium, which is partly behind his thinking.
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Jenson Button believes Lewis Hamilton will bring ‘confidence’ to Montreal despite simulator concerns
Hamilton explained: “Since last year, I’ve used it every week, and more often than not, I felt, you do all the work in the sim and you go to the track, you find a setup you’re comfortable with, you go to the track and it’s all reversed, so you’re undoing what you’ve learned.
“Somehow you get to the corner, you have to change and adjust. The set-up that you felt was good in the simulator is not the same on the track, sometimes it is, so it’s kind of hit and miss.
“I just decided that for this one I’m just going to sit it out and focus more on the data, so there was a lot of deep diving through corner balance, mechanical balance, corner approach, brake balance, optimizing the brakes, which has been an issue for me for a while.
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Kimi Antonelli, George Russell and Lewis Hamilton look back at key moments from the Chinese GP in the cool-down room
“It’s led to really good integration with my engineers, so it’s not a tool I’ll ever use again. I think it’s something we’ll definitely continue to use, especially in power deployment.
“Most of what I’ve done over the last six months, you’d go in after the weekend, and you’d work on the correlation, so we could run it again… but then you go to the next track and it’s a little bit off sometimes, so we’ll see how the weekend goes.”
Sky Sports F1’s Canadian GP schedule
Friday 22nd May
1.55pm: F1 Academy practice
3pm: F2 practice
5pm: Canadian GP Practice One (Session starts at 5.30pm)*
6.55pm: F2 Qualifying*
7.40pm: Team bosses’ press conference*
9pm: Canadian GP Sprint Qualifying (Session starts at 9.30pm)*
10.55pm: F1 Academy Qualifying*
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A look at the wildest moments caught on onboard cameras at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Saturday 23 May
2.40pm: F1 Academy Race 1
4pm: Canadian GP sprint build-up
5pm: Canadian GP Sprint
6.30pm: Ted’s Sprint Notebook
7pm: F2 Sprint*
8.10pm: Canadian GP Qualifying Build Up*
9pm: Canadian GP Qualifying*
11pm: F1 Academy Race 2*
11.45pm: Ted’s Qualifications Notebook*
Sunday 24 May
3.40pm: F1 Academy Race 3
5pm: F2 Feature Race
7.30pm: Canadian GP Build-up: Grand Prix Sunday*
9pm: Canadian Grand Prix*
11am: Canadian GP reaction: Checkered flag*
12am: Ted’s Notebook*
*Also on Sky Sports main events
The Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix and another sprint weekend head to Montreal. Watch F1 live on Sky Sports from this Friday. Stream Sky Sports now – no contract, cancel anytime
