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Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes resolve in opposition to early launch to ‘finish relationship the correct method’
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Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes resolve in opposition to early launch to ‘finish relationship the correct method’

By Miles Cooper November 13, 2024
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Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes resolve in opposition to early launch to ‘finish relationship the correct method’

Lewis Hamilton’s is more likely to be in a 2022 machine firstly of subsequent yr, with the driving force and Mercedes having “collectively determined” in opposition to the seven-time world champion collaborating within the post-season tyre take a look at in Abu Dhabi for the Scuderia.

Ferrari had been hopeful that Hamilton, 39, to participate within the Abu Dhabi take a look at. However Hamilton will likely be in Kuala Lumpur honouring a longstanding dedication to the workforce’s title sponsors Petronas.

Group sources urged Hamilton and Mercedes workforce principal Toto Wolff did focus on whether or not it is likely to be possible to change plans, however collectively determined it will be higher to honour that look, and different end-of-year obligations again within the UK, to be able to “finish the connection in the correct method”.

It’s understood that no official request was put in by Hamilton to exit his contract early. Certainly, he’s stated to be enthusiastic about making his Ferrari debut at Fiorano, which is true subsequent to the workforce’s Maranello headquarters.

Hamilton, essentially the most profitable driver within the historical past of the game, is becoming a member of Ferrari subsequent yr after 12 seasons with Mercedes – and 18 with the German producer’s engines.

Ferrari workforce principal Fred Vasseur informed Autosport that the provisional plan to get Hamilton in control was to make use of 1 or two of the squad’s ‘Testing of Earlier Automobiles’ days.

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur

Method One’s TPC guidelines permit groups to run automobiles that had been “designed and constructed to be able to adjust to the technical rules of any of the three calendar years falling instantly previous to the calendar yr previous the yr of the championship”. This implies Hamilton will possible make his debut in a 2022 Ferrari, the primary designed for the brand new period of ground-effect rules.

“I’m undecided that he wants tons of hours of acclimatisation,” Vasseur stated. “He’s skilled sufficient to be fast on the primary day, or at the least very quickly. We’ll have one or two TPC days, plus the [pre-season] take a look at in Bahrain, and that will likely be sufficient.

“For positive we’ve got a part of the workforce already specializing in ’25, on the take a look at plan, on the communication and so, with Lewis being a part of this. However not on the race workforce and it’s not on my thoughts.”

Hamilton is being changed within the Mercedes line-up by 18-year-old rookie Kimi Antonelli, who will drive alongside Briton George Russell.

Malone, 83, to take cost of F1 proprietor

In the meantime, Method One proprietor Liberty Media has introduced that its president and chief government Greg Maffei will go away his function on the finish of the yr. The 64 year-old grew to become CEO of the corporate in 2006 and oversaw the agency’s acquisition of F1 in 2017.

Maffei will likely be changed on an interim foundation by Liberty Media’s chairman and largest voting shareholder, 83-year-old John Malone.

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