Could Lewis Hamilton take major Mercedes know-how to Ferrari in 2025?

“He’s got to be excluded from conversations"

Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton

The knowledge 💦that Lewis Hamilton could take from Mercedes to Ferrari will be limited, Damon Hill insists.

Hamilton signed a deal at the🎶 beginning of this year to joiജn Ferrari in 2025, where he will seek an all-time record eighth F1 championship.

He has suddenly hit race-winning form for the💝 first time since in three years, after victory in two of the past three grands prix before the summer break.

Mercedes’ resurgence has given Hamilton his spark back bওut, in his final m꧋onths at the team, it could become more difficult for him.

“It’s got to,” ex-F1 ♛cha🍸mpion Hill told the F1 Nation podcast.

“He’s got to be excluded from conversations about what’s coming next year. They don’t want him taki🐲ng insights to Ferrari.

“It may be that he’s depriv💜ed of more information. But they are an honourable team and Tot♐o is an honourable person. He will be treated fairly in the team.

“But there’s 𝐆only so much that you can give a💖way when somebody is leaving.

“It’s not like there is a technical person who, when they leave 𒉰a team has to go on gardening leave. The drivers can go from Day 1 to the next team.

“Drivers are not necessarily privy to all of the technical💟 stuff - they might not understand it!

“There 🍸is a need to understand very complex technical things💟 which very few drivers can do.

“You’d know w👍hat direction, in geneꦚral what the team is up to.

“Lewis cou൲ld go to Ferrari and say ‘we changed ꦺour front wing and it did this…’

“He can tell them that but they’ll probably already know. Everyone watches the ot▨her teams like hawks. Nothing is missed.

“You can’t see what’s under the cover or what’s going on with 🃏the power unit. That is deep science. You can never understand what’s going on under the hood. There is only so much you can take, as a driver.”

Last month, Hamilt꧒on insist🌺ed “I haven't been excluded from any meetings” yet.

But he accepted that, towards the end of the year and his glorious spell wꦇith Mercedes, the team must discuss 2025 plans without him.

“If there's a point where they're like, 'we'd prefer you not to be in this meeting', that's totally fine with me,” Hamilto꧂n said.

Curren🎶tly, Mercedes have a far 🌄more competitive car than Hamilton’s next team, Ferrari.

Mercedes have won three races this year, twice🌺 through Hamilton and once via George Russell.

Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Caꩵrlos Sainz have won one apiece, at the beginni♚ng of the season.

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