Hamilton will "focus heavily" on its new rivals in 2019

Lewis Hamilton said he has not yet reached the peak of his ambitions, with a "strong goal" to overcome his new rivals in Formula One, Max Verstauben and Charles LeClair next season.

The arrival of Leclerc at Ferrari alongside Vettel in 2019 and Verstaapen's recent turmoil in 2018 means that Hamilton could face two new challenges in the upcoming season, after the Briton clinched his fifth Formula 1 title this year.

Fierchtapen, who will be next in Red Bull, beat all the drivers behind Hamilton after the summer break and beat the British in a direct battle in the United States and Mexico.

However, the Dutch lost the victory in the Brazilian race against a Mercedes driver due to a collision with Esteban Okon, which provoked controversy.

LeClair will join Vettel in the corridors of the Château Rouge, whose team is this year the strongest battle for the title since 2012 and the best season 2018 for Ferrari since 2008.

"He has not done his best yet, but he is on the right track," said Hamilton, who said his goal in 2019 and 2020 – the last two seasons of his contract with Mercedes – is to "guarantee that Ferrari and Reed do not win the championship, these two years".

Speaking of his quest for the 12th year in the Queen clbad, Hamilton said he has taken a new start from the 2019 season: "a new car, a new platform and a new challenge" and "different car drivers" ".

"Red Bull is trying to tackle us firmly," Hamilton said after a fifth title, on the sidelines of an event by Holt Packard Enterprise.

"We have young Max Verstauben, who wants to deflect the title, and Charles Leclair, who is now on the Ferrari and wants to impress everyone next season." Both drivers are much smaller and I am the third largest driver now in Formula One and only 33,.

"How to keep my connection this year, how to keep my fitness better than this one, how do I keep my mind more focused on these people, what is it that I focus on to stay in front of them?"

Confrontation of a different kind

If Leclair adapts to Ferrari as fast as it did with Sauber this year in its first Formula 1 season, or if Honda – the new driving partner of Reed Bell – Leverstein gives him the package that will allow him to Continuing the title all season, it's probably a rare opportunity for Hamilton to face a new face of a different kind during her career in the Queen category.

Back in memory, two years after the emergence of Hamilton as a direct threat to the Formula 1 battle, his former Formula 3 rival, Sebastian Vettel, became a force capable of winning races with Red Bull.

However, in the nine years that have elapsed between the Vettel title in 2009 and the emergence of Verchtaben this year, Rosberg – Hamilton's colleague at Mercedes from 2013 to 2016 – was the regular winner of the race against British.

But unlike Vettel or Rosenberg's substitute in the ranks of German manufacturer Valerie Bottas, Hamilton has no experience of what will be needed to beat Verchtapen or Leclerc in a direct and fair battle.

Where the British have said they have already begun to badyze their own aspects to surpbad a binary that has the features and capabilities still obscure to him.

"I have experience, because it helps you badyze your season.From next month, badyze the situation to find out how I could be better," Hamilton said.

"I asked the team to send me an e-mail from several departments.I also asked them to be honest.They did not even have to tell me to who e-mail had been sent in. I just wanted them to tell me what they thought they could improve, if there was a specific aspect that could be better. "

"I'm looking forward to being the best in the history of the sport, and that means winning all the races."