In F1 news, Mercedes was preparing for a “confrontation” and lost Lewis Hamilton’s replacement.
Hamilton and Russell still have one season to go as teammates at Mercedes. Fans are expecting fireworks for their last season together, and one possible replacement has been taken off the shelves by their present company.
Lewis Hamilton will want to race for Mercedes for a long time. He had a great track record in go-karting, and when you put them in the junior formulas, he won every season in his first year.
That’s not going to happen, though, and Toto Wolff knows that he will have to find a person to race in place of the seven-time defending champion at some point. That won’t be easy for either the head of Mercedes or the chauffeur who gets the job.
Hamilton is signed up until the end of 2025, and there’s no sign that this is going to be the final Formula 1 deal.
Since the 39-year-old is still going strong while there are a lot of other things going on, it remains too early to say who will replace him.
But Andrea Kimi Antonelli may be one of the best candidates. The 17-year-old Italian racing star is the top student in the Mercedes-Benz racing academy and is becoming well-known for doing well in younger categories.
Because of how well he did in karting and at the F4 level, he moved quickly through the system.
This season, he will only race in Formula 2 and not in Formula 3. He will be in a fast car with the Prema team, along with hot Ferrari hopeful Oliver Bearman.
That move has only made the buzz around the teen stronger. Wolff, the head of the Mercedes team, wants Antonelli to stay grounded, but he also knows that his team has a unique ability on its hands.
“We got Kimi under the wings within 2012 and he was an excellent kid already then,” he stated.
“You could see who he was, and he was strong.” There was a lot of trust when we had it in the garage.
Lewis Hamilton is leaving Mercedes shortly after more than ten years with the Formula One team. He has agreed to move to Ferrari in 2025, which has now been confirmed.
Over two years have passed since the Brit won an F1 race. This is because the Silver Arrows as a team have had trouble keeping up with Red Bull’s designs and drivers.
With only three weeks to go until the new season, this is a shocking way to kick off F1 in 2024. It has also started a lot of talk about who would replace Hamilton at Mercedes.
During the off-season, he brought back Marc Hynes to his support team for the new season. At the same time, Ferrari hired another Brit, Ollie Bearman, to be their reserve racer for the year.
Hamilton, a seven-time F1 world champion, is leaving Mercedes after 11 years and six world titles. This was surprise news on Thursday.
It leaves Sainz, who won Ferrari’s only race last year to Singapore, in a bit of a bind and without a ride for 2025.
Hamilton, 39, has used a clause of his two-year deal to get out of his Silver Arrows contract and sign a “multi-year contract” with the Scuderia.
“The season is still young, and I will do everything I can for the team as well as all the tifosi around the world, as I always do.” Soon, I’ll be able to share news about my future.
John Elkann’s association with Hamilton was very important, but Hamilton is said to have been persuaded by the Scuderia’s technical promises for the future.
In 2026, the Ferrari engine being made in Maranello was very important. Elkann or Frederic Vasseur gave promises about the technical parts.
Before Lewis Hamilton’s long-awaited move to Ferrari, Toto Wolff, the head of the Mercedes team, had no doubts about his honesty.
Hamilton is starting the first calendar year of a new £100 million, two-year deal with Mercedes. However, he shocked everyone in Formula One by using a clause in the deal that let him leave and join Ferrari in 2025.
Wolff said he wouldn’t hold a grudge against Hamilton once the 39-year-old told him the news over breakfast at Wolff’s Oxford home on Wednesday. He also said he doesn’t mind that Hamilton might tell his future team sensitive information.