Lewis Hamilton says remembering he loves racing in System 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 significantly downbeat heading into the summer time break. After quite a lot of weeks off, Hamilton says he needs to take pleasure in himself extra after feeling the change to his new staff 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 mentioned. “We’re simply going to be working, hold our heads down, attempt to change a couple of issues in our method and begin to take pleasure in ourselves.
“There’s been a lot strain within the first half of the season, it is not been probably the most pleasing. So I believe simply remembering that we love what we do, we’re all on this collectively, and making an attempt to have enjoyable.
“Finally, simply to get on prime of the whole lot, the quantity of labor we’ve [done], all the brand new companions, the quantity of shoots we have executed, getting built-in into a brand new staff… And it is a large, large staff, the most important model in our sport as nicely. So a mix of all these various things has been rather a lot.
“It is most likely a very powerful half [to have fun], as a result of that is the explanation I acquired into this sport. It was enjoyable for me, and I believe for anybody in no matter profession you are in, if you happen to’re not having fun with what you are doing, then why are you doing it?
“There can usually be a lot noise, you’ll be able to lose sight of what is actually, actually necessary. I simply actually need to concentrate on getting again to that enjoyment. I’ve joined the staff that I’ve all the time dreamed of driving for and there is been a lot noise round that it is type of clouded us from attending to take pleasure in it, so now it is about shifting 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 supplied an opportunity for him to modify off earlier than reflecting on 2025 to date.
“Not a lot has modified, essentially, however the good factor is, whenever you get time to unplug like that, it is a reset,” he mentioned. “We had time to undergo this previous week, significantly, to undergo the place we have been, issues we need to enhance on, processes, and issues we need to attempt to change shifting forwards.
“I see loads of potential. There’s loads of positives to take from the primary [half of the year] although it did not look essentially probably the most constructive. There’s numerous positives to take from it, which we’ll take ahead and attempt to construct on that.”
