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Wolff did not attempt to persuade Hamilton to remain over “shelf life” wariness
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Wolff did not attempt to persuade Hamilton to remain over “shelf life” wariness

By Miles Cooper November 9, 2024
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Toto Wolff has revealed he didn’t attempt to persuade Lewis Hamilton to stay at Mercedes as a substitute of switching to Ferrari and says he was involved in regards to the F1 driver’s “shelf life”.

Firstly of the 12 months, Hamilton informed Wolff he needed to chop quick his contract with Mercedes with a view to be part of the Scuderia for 2025.

The information ripped by way of F1 whereas Wolff has claimed that he had suspicions that Hamilton was desirous about quitting after a telephone name with Carlos Sainz’s father, who revealed his son was being ditched to make means for Hamilton within the Ferrari squad.

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Hamilton – who can be 40 when he joins Ferrari in January- and Wolff have all the time spoken of a mutual friendship.

And Wolff says Hamilton’s resolution to defect to a different workforce is definitely as constructive because it means he doesn’t want a clumsy dialogue with the seven time world champion the place he tells him he’s not wanted.

Wolff cites examples of former Manchester United supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson, and present Manchester Metropolis boss Pep Guardiola, displaying the door to older gamers as they rebuild their squads with the subsequent era of expertise.

Wolff made the feedback in a brand new ebook titled Inside Mercedes F1: Life within the Quick Lane.

Wolff did not attempt to persuade Hamilton to remain over “shelf life” wariness

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG F1 Crew

Picture by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Photos

“I completely had it on my radar that Lewis would go,” says Wolff. “I simply couldn’t perceive why he’d change to a different workforce earlier than we knew if we have been going to be aggressive.

“It additionally didn’t give me any time to react, I needed to emergency name our companions, and I presumably missed out on negotiating with different drivers who had signed contracts just a few weeks earlier like Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris.

“[But] I just like the scenario. It helps us as a result of it avoids the second the place we have to inform the game’s most iconic driver that we need to cease.”

Mercedes is changing Hamilton with 18-year-old Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

“There’s a motive why we solely signed a one-plus-one-year contract,” provides Wolff in relation to the deal they signed with Hamilton in 2023.

“We’re in a sport the place cognitive sharpness is extraordinarily necessary, and I imagine everybody has a shelf life.

“So I would like to have a look at the subsequent era. It’s the identical in soccer. Managers like Sir Alex Ferguson or Pep Guardiola. They anticipated it within the efficiency of their high stars and introduced in junior gamers that drove the workforce for the subsequent years.”

In the meantime, Wolff has conceded he nonetheless thinks about how Hamilton was denied a document eighth world championship by the hands of former FIA race director Michael Masi and his dealing with of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix the place Hamilton misplaced his crown to Max Verstappen.

Talking on the Excessive Efficiency podcast the place he was interviewed in regards to the ebook, Wolff mentioned: “There is a second each week the place I give it some thought [Abu Dhabi 2021], however I primarily give it some thought as a result of Lewis ought to have deserved to be the best of all time with eight world championship titles.

“You possibly can argue all alongside about that 12 months. I believe Max and Lewis have been deserving champions. There have been cases in the course of the 12 months the place Max misplaced some factors that he should not have misplaced. You have a look at Silverstone. You have a look at the crash in Monza each of them had. So, each deserving champions. However on that individual afternoon in Abu Dhabi, it was unfair.”

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