{"id":286762,"date":"2025-04-21T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/lewis-hamilton-admits-he-wanted-to-quit-f1-after-last-years-controversy-in-abu-dhabi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:34:53","slug":"lewis-hamilton-admits-he-wanted-to-quit-f1-after-last-years-controversy-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/lewis-hamilton-admits-he-wanted-to-quit-f1-after-last-years-controversy-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton admits he wanted to quit F1 after last year\u2019s controversy in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton admits he wanted to quit F1 after last year\u2019s controversy in Abu Dhabi\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton admits he wanted to quit F1 after last year\u2019s controversy in Abu Dhabi\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"pcl-full-content\">\n<p>The seven-times champion Lewis Hamilton has admitted that he considered quitting F1 after the season finale in Abu Dhabi last year, when a controversial interpretation of the rules denied him an eighth championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I can really put into words the feeling that I had,\u201d Hamilton told Vanity Fair magazine in an interview.<\/p>\n<p><ev-engagement group-name=\"contentLogin\"\/><ev-engagement group-name=\"myNotification\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content ie-premium-content-block\">\n<p>\u201cI do remember just sitting there in disbelief. And realising I\u2019ve got to undo my belts, I\u2019ve got to get out of there, I\u2019ve got to climb out of this thing, I\u2019ve got to find the strength. I had no strength. And it was one of the toughest moments, I would say, that I\u2019ve had in a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 37-year-old also admitted that he does not like driving on normal roads because he finds it too stressful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think that I find it stressful. I try not to do things that don\u2019t add to my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While driving in the busy streets near Nice, Hamilton told his interviewer: \u201c\u201cLook, we\u2019re on these roads, anything can happen.\u201d Later, as the traffic built up, he went on to say: \u201cThis is now stressful for me. This road is crazy. So much going on here. I\u2019m going to turn around in a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is under contract with Mercedes until the end of next year and said he has considered extending his stay in the sport beyond then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adboxtop adsizes\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be lying if I said that I hadn\u2019t thought about extending,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m still on the mission, I\u2019m still loving driving, I\u2019m still being challenged by it. 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