Hamilton's run out of allies? Brundle opens the door for his F1 retirement!

In his post race column for Sky Sports, Brundle observed the Hungarian Grand Prix as one of the most difficult in Hamilton's career.

"I'm not looking forward to writing this next section," he said, only to give the reason imediately afterwards.

Remembering the 7-time world champion's qualifying result of P12 in contrast to his teammate Charles Leclerc's pole position, he also highlighted Hamilton's post qualifying comments of being useless and suggesting Ferrari to swap drivers.

"That was best left unsaid, but he obviously wanted to openly punish himself," opined Brundle.

Brundle is of the idea that Hamilton is personally in a 'difficult place' going on to mention the now Ferrari driver's lack of progression during the Hungarian Grand Prix.

As Max Verstappen revealed, Martin Brundle also noticed that Hamilton was not even present in the Stewards' room to contest the incident between the two at Turn 4, which Brundle described as a 'rather ambitious' maneuver by the Dutchman.

Brundle then concluded that the summer break F1 went into right after the Hungarian Grand Prix couldn't have been more timely for Hamilton.

Like Ralf Schumacher previously stated in the German branch of Sky Sports, Brundle believes that if Hamilton can't increase his level of performance, then retirement is in the cards.