Lewis Hamilton says remembering he loves racing in Method 1 and having extra enjoyable are targets for him because the season resumes at this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix.
The seven-time world champion’s transfer to Ferrari has but to yield a podium to date this 12 months, and failing to attain factors in Hungary left Hamilton notably downbeat heading into the summer time break. After a variety of weeks off, Hamilton says he needs to get pleasure from himself extra after feeling the swap to his new crew got here with added pressures that distracted him from his love of the game.
“I really feel decided to and motivated to [move forward],” Hamilton stated. “We’re simply going to be working, hold our heads down, attempt to change a couple of issues in our strategy and begin to get pleasure from ourselves.
“There’s been a lot strain within the first half of the season, it isn’t been probably the most pleasant. So I feel simply remembering that we love what we do, we’re all on this collectively, and making an attempt to have enjoyable.
“In the end, simply to get on prime of the whole lot, the quantity of labor we’ve got [done], all the brand new companions, the quantity of shoots we have finished, getting built-in into a brand new crew… And it is a massive, massive crew, the largest model in our sport as properly. So a mix of all these various things has been lots.
“It is most likely a very powerful half [to have fun], as a result of that is the rationale I obtained into this sport. It was enjoyable for me, and I feel for anybody in no matter profession you are in, should you’re not having fun with what you are doing, then why are you doing it?
“There can typically be a lot noise, you may lose sight of what is actually, actually necessary. I simply actually wish to give attention to getting again to that enjoyment. I’ve joined the crew that I’ve all the time dreamed of driving for and there is been a lot noise round that it is sort of clouded us from attending to get pleasure from it, so now it is about transferring these issues apart and simply getting again to specializing in the pure love of what we do.”
Regardless of his disappointment after the final race in Hungary, Hamilton says the break provided an opportunity for him to change off earlier than reflecting on 2025 to date.
“Not a lot has modified, essentially, however the good factor is, once you get time to unplug like that, it is a reset,” he stated. “We had time to undergo this previous week, notably, to undergo the place we have been, issues we wish to enhance on, processes, and issues we wish to try to change transferring forwards.
“I see quite a lot of potential. There’s quite a lot of positives to take from the primary [half of the year] despite the fact that it did not look essentially probably the most optimistic. There’s plenty of positives to take from it, which we’ll take ahead and try to construct on that.”
