Lewis Hamilton wants to win another F1 title at 40 with Ferrari. It hasn't been done since the 1960s

Lewis Hamilton isn't about to let age stop him pursuing an historic eighth Formula 1 title with his new team Ferrari.

An eighth world title would be an all-time record but winning after turning 40 has been a challenge for even the greatest drivers in F1 history.

No driver has won a race past the age of 40 since 1994, and there's hasn't been a 40-plus world champion in 59 years.

Hamilton told Time last month he rejects comparisons with older drivers “past or present." He added: "I’m hungry, driven, don’t have a wife and kids. I’m focused on one thing, and that’s winning."

The 2025 season starts next week in Melbourne, Australia.

Here's a look at the successes and failures of F1 greats after reaching the age of 40:

F1's other seven-time world champion came out of retirement with Mercedes in 2010 and announced he wanted an eighth title. It didn't turn out well. Schumacher was outperformed by teammate Nico Rosberg in each of his three post-comeback seasons and was on the podium just once before retiring again in 2012 at 43. His replacement at Mercedes? Lewis Hamilton.

The 1992 champion returned to F1 from IndyCar in 1994 for four races with a mission to help Williams teammate Damon Hill beat Schumacher to the title. Mansell won the season-ending Australian Grand Prix at the age of 41 but all the attention was elsewhere because Schumacher took the title after colliding with Hill. Mansell hoped to challenge again with McLaren in 1995 but quit after two races.

Widely considered the greatest driver of F1's early decades, Fangio didn't race outside South America until his late 30s and didn't win the F1 title until he was 40. Fangio avoided the death and injury that cut short many careers in the 1950s and was near-unbeatable at his peak. The Argentinian won five titles, including four in a row, and was 46 for his last championship in 1957, setting a record which may never be beaten.

The first F1 world champion was 43 when he took the inaugural title in 1950. The early years of F1 had many older drivers with experience of pre-World War II racing. Luigi Fagioli was the oldest race winner at 53 when he shared a victory with Fangio — allowed by the rules at the time — at the 1951 French Grand Prix. Louis Chiron entered the Monaco Grand Prix aged 58 in 1958.

The last winner of an F1 championship over 40 was a grizzled Australian veteran. Brabham had won titles in 1959 and 1960 with the Cooper team but achieved a unique feat at 40 in 1966 by winning the championship with his own Brabham team. He took his last F1 win aged 43 in 1970 and retired that year.

There is another champion on the 2025 grid aiming to break decades-old records. Two-time champion Fernando Alonso, who was Hamilton's teammate for his rookie season with McLaren back in 2007, is still an ambitious contender. However, his Aston Martin team is widely believed to focus on designing a car to win under new rules in 2026, so Alonso may have to wait a little longer. If Alonso can win another title, he'd be the oldest champion in nearly 70 years.

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FILE - German Grand Prix Formula One car race winner Jack Brabham of Australia smiles after his victory, making him new World Champion of1 966. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf, File)

FILE - Italy's Giuseppe Farina, winner of the 11th Grand Prix D'Europe poses for a photo, at Silverstone, England, Jan. 13, 1950. (AP Photo/Leslie Priest, File)

FILE - Juan Manuel Fangio sits in the cockpit of his Alfa Romeo surrounded by technicians in Frankfurt, Germany, July 27, 1951. (AP Photo/Albert Gillhausen, File)

FILE - Juan Manuel Fangio comes out of a bend at speed during the race, driving a supercharged 1.5 Liter . Alfa Romeo during the Grand Prix D'Europe at Rheims, France , July 1, 1951. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - Britain's Nigel Mansell steers his Williams Renault to take third position in the grid for the European Grand Prix in Jerez, Spain, Oct. 15, 1994. (AP Photo/Amilcar de Leon, File)

FILE - Mercedes Formula One driver Michael Schumacher of Germany poses during a photo call at the Ricardo Tormo race track in Cheste, just outside Valencia, Spain Monday Feb. 1, 2010 (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

FILE - Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain attends the F1 75 Live launch event at the O2 arena in London, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Glenn Hall, a Hockey Hall of Famer whose ironman streak of 502 starts as a goaltender remains an NHL record, has died. He was 94.

Nicknamed “Mr. Goalie,” Hall worked to stop pucks at a time when players at his position were bare-faced, before masks of any kind became commonplace. He did it as well as just about anyone of his generation, which stretched from the days of the Original Six into the expansion era.

A spokesperson for the Chicago Blackhawks confirmed the team received word of Hall’s death from his family. A league historian in touch with Hall’s son, Pat, said Hall died at a hospital in Stony Plain, Alberta, on Wednesday.

A pioneer of the butterfly style of goaltending of dropping to his knees, Hall backstopped Chicago to the Stanley Cup in 1961. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the playoffs in 1968 with St. Louis when the Blues reached the final before losing to Montreal. He was the second of just six Conn Smythe winners from a team that did not hoist the Cup.

His run of more than 500 games in net is one of the most untouchable records in sports, given how the position has changed in the decades since. Second in history is Alec Connell with 257 from 1924-30.

“Glenn was sturdy, dependable and a spectacular talent in net,” Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “That record, set from 1955-56 to 1962-63, still stands, probably always will, and is almost unfathomable — especially when you consider he did it all without a mask.”

Counting the postseason, Hall started 552 games in a row.

Hall won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1956 when playing for the Detroit Red Wings. After two seasons, he was sent to the Black Hawks along with legendary forward Ted Lindsay.

Hall earned two of his three Vezina Trophy honors as the league's top goalie with Chicago, in 1963 and '67. The Blues took him in the expansion draft when the NHL doubled from six teams to 12, and he helped them reach the final in each of their first three years of existence, while winning the Vezina again at age 37.

Hall was in net when Boston's Bobby Orr scored in overtime to win the Cup for the Bruins in 1970, a goal that's among the most famous in hockey history because of the flying through the air celebration that followed. He played one more season with St. Louis before retiring in 1971.

“His influence extended far beyond the crease," Blues chairman Tom Stillman said. “From the very beginning, he brought credibility, excellence, and heart to a new team and a new NHL market.”

A native of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Hall was a seven-time first-team NHL All-Star who had 407 wins and 84 shutouts in 906 regular-season games. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1975, and his No. 1 was retired by Chicago in 1988.

Hall was chosen as one of the top 100 players in the league's first 100 years.

Blackhawks chairman and CEO Danny Wirtz called Hall an innovator and “one of the greatest and most influential goaltenders in the history of our sport and a cornerstone of our franchise.”

“We are grateful for his extraordinary contributions to hockey and to our club, and we will honor his memory today and always,” Wirtz said.

The Blackhawks paid tribute to Hall and former coach and general manager Bob Pulford with a moment of silence before Wednesday night’s game against St. Louis. Pulford died Monday.

A Hall highlight video was shown on the center-ice videoboard. The lights were turned off for the moment of silence, except for a spotlight on the No. 1 banner for Hall that hangs in the rafters at the United Center.

Fellow Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur, the league's leader in wins with 691 and games played with 1,266, posted a photo of the last time he saw Hall along with a remembrance of him.

“Glenn Hall was a legend, and I was a big fan of his,” Brodeur said on social media. “He set the standard for every goaltender who followed. His toughness and consistency defined what it meant to play.”

AP Sports Writer Jay Cohen in Chicago contributed to this report.

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FILE - Glenn Hall, second from left, stands with fellow former Chicago Blackhawks players Stan Mikita, former general manager Tommy Ivan, Bobby Hull, Bill Wirtz and Tony Esposito during a pre-game ceremony at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Ill., April 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)

FILE - St. Louis Blues goalie Glenn Hall, top right, is pinned to his net waiting to make a save on a Montreal Canadians shot as Blues' Noel Picard (4) tries to block the puck while Canadiens' John Ferguson (22) and Ralph Backstorm wait for a rebound in the third period of their NHL hockey Stanley Cup game, May 5, 1968. (AP Photo/Fred Waters, File)