Lewi෴s Hamilton says it is “very difficult to imagine” himself driving for any team besides Mercedes ꦇin Formula 1 after clinching his fifth world championship last weekend with the German manufacturer.

Hamilton finished fourth in the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday to clinch the F1 drivers’ title for 2018 with two races to spare. It marked his fourth world championship win with Mercedes’ factory team, having also claimed his maiden crown in 2008 using a Mercedes engine at McLar🍬en.

Hamilton🌄’s title win in Mexico saw him tie with Juan Manuel Fangio for the second-highest number of F1 titles, leaving him just two shy of Michael Schuma♓cher’s record of seven championships.

However, Hamilton said he did not feel he would have to leave Mercedes or try to win a championship with a different engine man꧑ufacturer to prove his greatness, and added that he could not see himself leaving the team at the moment.

“Naturally I did it with McLaren, which was obviously a different team, so I have won it wiꦛth two different teams,” Hamilton said.

“Michael had five with one team? He had two with🐻 [Benetton] and then five with 💯Ferrari, right?. So ultimately we’ve both done it with two teams.

“At the moment, it’s very, very difficult to im꧑agine, envisage myself anywhere else. This is my family, this is where I grew up, but I said the same thing 🎐when I was at McLaren.

“I think one of the reasons I wanted to move was to go somewhere else, and see if you could do something speciღal somewhere else. I knew I could, but I needed to prove it to everyone else.

“Right now, I don’t feel like I need to go and be in anotheꩵr team to win a title i𒉰n another team, but you can never say never."

Hamilton announced in July he had signed a new two-year contract𓄧 to race with Mer💙cedes in F1, running to the end of the 2020 season.