Source: Mercedes F1 Twitter
Lewis Hamilton’s former team-mates Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg give their opinions on whether they expect him to return to Formula 1 in 2022.
After the controversial ending of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said he is not sure if Lewis Hamilton will return to Formula 1 in 2022.
The Austrian added both him and Lewis are “disillusioned” by the injustice suffered in the last race of the season.
This immediately became a big news story and, naturally, Lewis’ former team-mates Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg were asked to give their opinions on it.
“Anything is possible as we all know in sport,” Button told Sky Sports F1.
“We are very emotional characters and tensions run high. Personally – I don’t know Lewis that well now, I knew him seven or eight years ago – but I wouldn’t see him walking away. Especially as he’s just lost the world championship.
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“I think he will come back fighting next year and we’ll be back on, game on in March,” the Briton concluded.
Rosberg also thinks Lewis will return.
“It was heartbreaking for him, absolutely, because up until four laps from the end he was almost certain to be world champion,” the German said.
“Then with this change of procedure or whatever you want to call it, suddenly he lost the world championship. So it was tough, it was extremely tough.
“But of course I do count on him being back on the grid next year and fighting to get back that world championship that kind of got taken away from him in a way,” Rosberg concluded.
