As this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix approaches, Lewis Hamilton’s tenure with the Mercedes Formula 1 team is nearing its conclusion.
After 12 years racing for Mercedes, the seven-time world champion has only two more races before departing his home for the majority of his career to join Ferrari next season.
Hamilton enters Qatar following a second-place finish in the Las Vegas Grand Prix, but he said he’s not emotional regarding his time with Mercedes winding down.
“I don’t particularly feel very emotional right this second, no,” the 39-year-old British driver said. “I’ve had a whole year so it’s been emotional through the whole year.
“I would say that I’m less emotional in this moment but yesterday I was with IWC and they showed me a video of since 2013 and it was emotional. Sat down with Bono just now and we were like ‘this is our last two races together, can you believe it?.’
However, Hamilton said there would be plenty of special moments during the final two races of the season.
“There’s going to be so many of those moments in these next two weeks where we’re like ‘shoot, this is nearly it’. I can’t tell you when that’s going to be or how it’s going to feel,” he said. “It’s definitely going to feel odd, it’s definitely sad, but we’ll try not to let that deter us from our job which is to try and win these last two races if possible.”