Former champion reflects on another season of disappointment‘We have higher targets than ever before,’ he tells the BBC
Lewis Hamilton has echoed the fears of his team principal Toto Wolff that Mercedes have a “massive gap to close” to topple Max Verstappen’s all-conquering Red Bull team next season.
Mercedes clung on to second place in the constructors’ championship by the skin of their teeth – and a £10m cash boost – as the Dutch driver ended the most dominant season in Formula One history with another victory at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Another title for Verstappen and another season playing catch-up had been a blow to his confidence, the seven-times world champion conceded in a frank interview with the BBC.