Surabhi

I’ve sat on this for 12 hours to process. And I’m still so, so concerned by this. This is the most alarming, downright morbidly toned interview Lewis has had yet. I feel for him, he is clearly not in a great headspace right now. I get that he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but there’s only so many times you can say things like “I’m useless”, or “this is a nightmare”, or “it keeps getting worse”… and then straight up say you are not looking forward to next year? This isn’t a matter of some weird “respect” dynamic, just on a practical level, how long until somebody from the organization is going to move to panic stations over this deeply negative and morose mindset and… call it a day on this arrangement? I don’t want to see that happen. But how much longer can this roller coaster of “I’ll never give up, I back myself” followed by “it just keeps getting worse no matter what I do, and I’m not excited for 2026” keep going? How much longer does Lewis himself want this to keep going? Right now, that seems unsure. I’m now uncertain about whether this union continues next year, and I have not for one second questioned 2026 until this moment. I’ve viewed it as the much needed reset point for Lewis. Contracts in F1 are meaningless, as we know, so the existence of an agreement provides little certainty in light of the current mood. This is not going well, and I hope it stabilizes rather than implodes. I’m afraid it’s not as far from the latter as we might have thought.