Celebrated F1 driver Lewis Hamilton might have won the World Championship last season but he is still hungry for more races, involving battling and overtaking and wants more competition in this year's Formula One season that gets underway in Melbourne on March 15.
The Mercedes AMG Petronas driver, Hamilton won 11 Grand Prix, while his team-mate Nico Rosberg clinched five to give their team a comfortable victory in the World Constructors' Championship in 2014.
"I like to race, I really like to race. The 2015 cars are going to be evolutions of last year's cars, so it'll be the same people that we were racing with last year. Red Bull, Williams, and then you're hoping that it's a bit of a better year for those like McLaren and Ferrari, so that we have more people to race. The more the merrier," Hamilton told Laureus.Com.
"There was one year the first seven races were won by a different driver, a different team, that's what people want to see. But, most importantly, if the cars are close you can have real races where you're overtaking and battling and that's what I love doing. That's what racing's about."
Hamilton, who turned 30 this January, wants to compete for another seven or eight years but insists he won't hog his seat if he feels he is not being competitive.
"If I'm lucky enough to be able to live out my whole Formula One career then I think I've got a good seven, eight years left in me," said Hamilton, who was the winner of the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year Award in 2008.
"I'm sure I could go longer, but I think there's only 22 seats in Formula One, so you've got to imagine that there's going to be kids coming up along the way. I don't plan on hogging my seat, particularly if I'm not competitive in my later years. I'll definitely stop.
"Of course I look ahead to try and imagine what my life will be like in the future, but to be honest, generally the way I live my life is day by day, because I honestly believe you never know when it's going to be your last day, so I want to make sure that I enjoy as much as I can whatever it is I'm doing, workwise or in my personal life.
"I've been so fortunate to have this incredible career, the incredible life that I have, the family, good people around me, so I try and enjoy it. There's so many youngsters or people in the world who would love to be doing what I'm doing," he added.
