{"id":298227,"date":"2023-11-26T07:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=298227"},"modified":"2023-11-26T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:24:35","slug":"lewis-hamilton-names-condition-that-has-to-be-met-before-f1-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/racing\/f1\/lewis-hamilton-names-condition-that-has-to-be-met-before-f1-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton names condition that has to be met before F1 retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lewis Hamilton has claimed that he won\u2019t call time on his F1 career until he helps get the South African Grand Prix back on the calendar. The sport had considered a return to Kyalami as early as next season but these plans have yet to materialise.<\/p>\n

F1 is marketed as and presented as a \u2018World Championship\u2019, but the 2023 and 2024 calendars both fail to reach across all of the inhabited continents. The glaring omission is Africa – the sport hasn\u2019t raced there since Alain Prost claimed victory for Williams at Kyalami in 1993.<\/p>\n

Hamilton has been pushing to get the Kyalami circuit back on the F1 calendar for over eight years now. In 2015 he told the BBC: \u201cI would love for it to be in South Africa. They are great sporting fans and are just petrolheads who love cars. I would love to go there, it would be absolutely insane.<\/p>\n

“There is a huge following there and it is one of the most important Grands Prix we need to get on the calendar. This is the first time that black South Africans have had someone to relate to in this sport. I feel incredibly privileged to be at the front of that.”<\/p>\n

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Despite the massive success that he has enjoyed in his career since those comments, Hamilton remains committed to the vision of returning F1 to the African continent, and he reiterated his desire to race in South Africa ahead of this weekend\u2019s season finale.<\/p>\n

Hamilton was addressing supporters in the fan zone ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix when he said: \u201cI\u2019m working in the background to get South Africa on the race. That\u2019s like such a dream for me. I\u2019ve gotta stay until they get that race\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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