Sky Sports Formula 1 commentator David Croft insists there is no chance of Lewis Hamilton walking away despite a dismal debut year with Ferrari . The seven-time world champion joined the Scuderia to immense fanfare but there have been few highlights in an extremely difficult first 12 months on the payroll at Maranello, other than an early Sprint race victory in Shanghai back in March.

Hamilton ended the year with a dreadful run of qualifying results, suffering Q1 exits in each of the last three rounds of the campaign. And the 40-year-old made it clear he was desperate for the off-season and told reporters he would "unplug from the matrix". But any suggestion that the Brit could walk away from F1 this winter has been rubbished by long-time F1 commentator Croft.

He told Express Sp

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