Lewis Hamilton will experience a transition this year where Mercedes won’t wantꦐ to share information with their outgoing driver, Martin Brundle believes.

Hamilton will spend on🌳e final season at Mercedes - the team where he has won six of his joint-♍record seven F1 championships - before going to Ferrari in 2025.

Toto Wolff’s team will eventually slow down🐼 the feed of knowledge to Hamilton as his days at Mercedes become number🍷ed, Brundle warned.

“You’ve got♋ this transition point where Lewis will stop being invited to meetings,” 𓃲the Sky Sports expert said.

“He won’t understand what’s going on with development of the car and in🎐 the simulator.

“The team consciously, sub🅷consciously, will favour🎀 George.

“They have got to.”

Mercedes team principal Wolff has already insisted that he does worry about🍌 Hamilton’s ‘integrity’ in terms of taking secrets to Ferrari next year.

Asked what type of knowledge Hamilton could feasibly bring with him to Italy, Brundle explained: “Processes, philosophies, how ꦓthe car works, what he likes, how he likes to sit,ꦐ what he needs from a car to maximise his talent.

“He’s got tꦜo integrate. That’s hard. He won’t speak the la🅺nguage or know the team like Charles Leclerc does.

“You need to find out where all the buttons are to preꦏss.

“That’s why Lewis, I think, w𒈔ill want to try to take a few people with him.

“But🥃 ther💧e will be non-compete clauses so he can’t do that.

“You want to take some of your own gang wꦓith yඣou, when you go. So you can hit the ground running.”

Brundle added about Hamilton: “I have no♔ do𓂃ubt that he will give it everything he’s got until the last lap of the last race.

“If everybody is smart - and I think 🌌they are - they will see it as a farewell tour.

“They’ll wish him farewell then hope he loses in a  Ferrari!🐲”

Simon Lazenby was asked about the possible🤡 awkwardness of Hamilton spending an entire yea🥂r at Mercedes with everybody knowing he is Ferrari-bound.

“T𒐪he thing with Lewis, it’s an exceptional case,” Lazenby said. “I🐓t’s Lewis!

“He brought everything to Mercedes. They kind of do owe him💯.

“I think they owe him everything. They probably owe him the respect to treat him like the great champion that he is, for the time that he’s at Me🅷rcedes.

“I don’t think it will be 𝓡emotional. He’ll get through the season.

“He’ll know early on if he’s got a car capable of competing for tღhe championship.

“If🦄 he does? They’ll have to rally around whoever is the beꦦst driver.”