Hamilton 'not Looking Forward To 2026 Season'

Lewis Hamilton said he is not looking guardant to nan 2026 Formula 1 play aft a difficult twelvemonth continued pinch a reliable Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend.

The seven-time world champion qualified past for nan race, nan first clip that had happened connected axenic gait successful his 19-year F1 career.

He swiftly worked his measurement up nan section to get into nan points positions, but could not overtake nan Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg connected nan mean tyre successful nan closing stages of nan title and vanished successful 10th.

"It's a unspeakable result. There is thing affirmative to return from today," Hamilton told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I'm eager for it to end, I'm looking guardant to it ending. I'm not looking guardant to nan adjacent one."

Asked if that meant he was not looking guardant to nan adjacent title successful Qatar, Hamilton replied: "Next season."

Hamilton is sixth successful nan drivers' championship, 73 points down Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc.

The Briton is yet to decorativeness connected nan podium for Ferrari, whom he joined this season, but he did triumph nan sprint title successful China successful March.

Should he neglect to decorativeness successful nan apical 3 successful nan last 2 races of 2025, it would people a first podium-less play for Hamilton successful F1.

He was connected nan backfoot for nan title successful Las Vegas aft an uncompetitive qualifying successful bedewed conditions connected Friday, wherever he struggled for gait connected nan utmost bedewed tyre.

Hamilton, 40, described his first twelvemonth pinch Ferrari arsenic "a nightmare" aft he retired from nan Sao Paulo Grand Prix 2 weeks ago.

In an question and reply pinch Sky Sports aft nan race, he said: "I consciousness terrible. It's been nan worst play ever and nary matter really overmuch I try, it keeps getting worse."