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Former F1 racer and pundit Martin Brundle has suggested that Lewis Hamilton could walk away from the sport if Mercedes cannot bridge the gap to Ferrari this season. Hamilton secured a podium spot in the season opener in Bahrain last weekend but looked much slower than the Ferrari and Red Bull cars. Brundle told Fox Sports this week: "As long as he's still enjoying the bits around F1 or he can tolerate those bits around F1 and balance it out with just loving driving the car, [he'll stay]. "[But] if he goes through the whole year and Mercedes are third fastest and others are catching up, then I suspect he'll take a different view and my enjoyment analogy will play out in that he won't be enjoying it anymore."

Speculation over Hamilton's future in the sport was rife after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix controversy last season, when