Red Bull’s Helmut Marko twists the knife after Lewis Hamilton lapped by Max Verstappen - ‘Maybe he should have retired!'

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko was all smiles when suggesting Lewis Hamilton may have wished he retired at the end of last season after the Mercedes driver was lapped by Max Verstappen on Sunday. In the fourth race of the campaign, Verstappen closed the gap on championship leader Charles Leclerc with victory at the Emilia Romagna GP.

Ad/> Verstappen has recorded two wins and two DNFs so far, and while a late Leclerc mistake saw him finish sixth, seven-time champion Hamilton was down in 13th as his difficult season continues. Formula 1Could 2022 struggles cause Lewis Hamilton to retire?YESTERDAY AT 20:14 Hamilton’s future in the sport was unclear after he narrowly lost the title to Verstappen last year, but having returned to the paddock, Marko joked Hamilton may be regretting his decision to stay in F1.

«I mean, he was lapped by us,» Marko told Sky Sports when asked what must be going through Hamilton’s mind right now. «Maybe he is thinking he should have stopped last year!» /> Hamilton has already conceded his title fight is over.

He said: “There's no question about that, but I'll still keep working as hard as I can to try and somehow pull it back together somehow." Verstappen's dominance puts pressure on Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes in Miami Wolff sorry to Hamilton for Mercedes car: 'Not good enough for world champion' Verstappen celebrates Red Bull one-two: We deserved it Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said “sorry” to Hamilton on the team radio for the “undrivable”, and afterwards said: «We are not good enough for a world champion, not worthy for a world champion. We just need to fix the car.

»Lewis deserves better from us. But we are a team, so we all need to do the upmost in order to provide him with a machine that is