Schumacher sees Hamilton struggle: 'Might stop already after 2025'

After the Saudi Arabia GP, where he finished in P7 and thirty seconds behind his teammate, Charles Leclerc, Schumacher saw a downbeat Hamilton.

"He just can't get along with the car. We talk a lot about Lando Norris, but with him, it's almost worse. You see he's really collapsed. If at some point you have no means and keep getting slower, you lose everything," Schumacher said in Sky Sports Germany's Boxengasse podcast.

As a former F1 driver, Schumacher talks from personal experience about how demoralising it can be to constantly behind, and eventually making the decision to leave the competition.

The German already sees that happening after the current season. "If this continues, the danger is that at some point he says: 'Look, I don't want this anymore. I want to live now, I'm 40 years old. I'm so rich, I won't do this to myself anymore.' Clearly, this isn't working for some reason,” Schumacher says Hamilton-Ferrari partnership.

However, given Hamilton's Sprint victory in Shanghai - which was both his and Ferrari's first win the event since it was first introduced back in 2021 -, Schumacher sees the possibility of the seven-time world champion bouncing back.

"China has also shown that as soon as he gets into the car and the track and the car suit him, he performs. There's still room for improvement," he concluded.