Former Mercedes team principal Norbert Haug believes Lewis Hamilton’s career is far from over despite a disappointing 2022. The sport has been dominated by Hamilton in recent years, who won six world titles between 2014 and 2020.
The Englishman then agonizingly missed out on the drivers’ championship in 2021 to Max Verstappen, before going through one of the worst campaigns of his F1 career in 2022. As a result, Hamilton finished sixth in the standings, enduring his first-ever winless season .
Haug however expects the seven-time world champion to bounce back ahead of the upcoming 2023 season. Speaking to RND as per GP Fans, the former boss said: “To anyone who thinks Lewis Hamilton is already finished, I am happy to describe in next year’s columns that things turned out very differently.”
It was not just an under-par year for Hamilton but for the Mercedes team overall who secured just one win in 2022, finishing third in the constructors’ standings, a title they had previously won eight times in a row. The one bright spark though proved to be new signing and rising star George Russell who secured the Silver Arrows’ only – and his first – win in Brazil.
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