Lewis Hamilton could appoint either Mika Hakkinen or Martin Brun๊dle as his new mana🌃ger.

Following the recent confirmation that the 2008 F1 world champion will no longer be looked after by his father, Anthony, it is being reported t🍎hat the ✱McLaren man is considering two main candidates for the role.

"McLaren legend and double world champion Mika Hakkinen is one of the leading contenders, along with the British team's ex-driver and BBC commentator Martin Brundle," reports British newspaper, The Daily Mail.

"For now, though, Hamilton says he is not rushing into finding a replacement manager. There are no major deals needing imminent negotiation and, anyway, McLaren are a team who like to cosse♛t their drivers themselves."

Lewis meanwhile is🔜 insistent that he has not fallen out with his father: "I am 25 and I am my own man now," he told the 'tabloid paper. "I've been in F1 for quite a while and I wouldn't have been able to do it without my dad. He's done a fantastic job. But he's done that job.

"What I am✱ excited about is having my dad just as my dad. I want to have a manager who can take care of all the stresses and do all the other stuff, and then I want to do "dad things" with my dad. I want to go for a beer with my dad. I want to go𒐪 bowling with my dad. I want to go on holiday with my dad.

"I've not fully had that relationship since I was a kid and we went radio-controlled car racing -- andꦿ did it just for fun.

"Over ♎the past few years we l🐎ooked around to see if we could bring someone else into the picture with the situation. I just never felt comfortable with anyone else. But it was inevitable there had to be change at some point."

It is understood that Hakkinen and Lewis already enjoy a good relationship, and Hakkinen's former manager and current partner at Aces Management Group, Didier Coton, has confirmed that they would be consid🐻er it.

"It is up to Lewis and the team," Coton stated. "He is taken good care of as it is. But if I was asked to get involved I would definitely ꦬbe interested."

Brundle however is apparently 'non-committal', and while he has experience, having managed David Coulthard, it is uncertain how such a role would affect his position as commentator for the BBC.