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Contract clause could explain Hamilton struggle

Apr.28 An interesting contractual detail surrounding Lewis Hamilton's move from Mercedes to Ferrari could help explain the seven time world champion's current struggle. Some insiders are predicting that the 40-year-old's performance has been so alarming recently that he could announce his retirement as early as mid-season. Leading Italian F1 technical journalist Paolo Filisetti, writing in La Gazzetta dello Sport, thinks Hamilton's decline has coincided with an increase in form and comfort on the other side of the garage – Charles Leclerc's. 'His (Leclerc's) statements at the end of the race highlighted how his driving with the SF-25 was now becoming automatic, allowing him to...
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