Claiming he was not fast anymore last season, F1 journalist Ben Hunt has pondered whether Lewis Hamilton had “kind of checked out” as he served his notice at Mercedes.

Ben Hunt on Lewis Hamilton: That’s someone that’s had enough

“He’d handed his notice in at the start of the year, and he was serving his notice, he’d kind of checked out,” Hunt said on the James Allen on F1 podcast. “And you know, once you’ve done that you’re never working at your same capacity. The drive isn’t there to deliver week in, week out, when you’ve done so.