Fred Vasseur says Ferrari did not ask Mercedes if168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton could make an early F1 test debut for the team out ꧋of “respec🦋t” for his contract.

Seven-time world champion Hami🌳lton will complete a blockbuster switch to Ferrari next season at♊ the end of an illustrious 12-year stint with Mercedes after opting to activate an exit clause in his contract.

But the prospect of Hamilton making his Ferrari bow in the end-of-year test following the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix has already b♚een ruled out due to the 39-year-old B✃riton’s commitments with Mercedes.

Instead, Hamilton is set to drive a Ferrari F1 car for꧟ the first time at the team’s private Fiorano test track at some point in early 2025.

Vasse꧑ur confirmed Ferrari did not put in a request to Mercedes for Hamilton to be able to take part in the Abu Dhabi test.

“No, they have a contract so I’ve not even asked Toto to do something,” Vasseurꦦ explained.

“There’s a contract. You have to respect this. And it’s not༺ ꦿbecause we are doing something for Carlos that everybody has to do the same.”

Wolff said Mercedes have “farewell” plans in place for Hamilton which preve𒆙nted such an appearance.

“Fred didn’t ask,” Wolff said. “I think 𝔍it’s different if you’re maybe going to Williams, but we have contractual agreements with sponsors.

“We’re having a farewell for Lewis, we have lots of activities that are planned. He and I, we spoke about i𒉰t shortly and he said ‘I😼 guess that’s not going to work’.

“I said ‘yeah, I🧸 don’t think it’s going to work and th🅷at was the whole thing. So I don’t think Fred is particularly sad.”

Vasseur added he did ไnot want to block outgoing driver Carlos Sainz from making an early debut for Williams to thank him for his “very p✅rofessional attitude” during his final season with Ferrari.

“I wanted to thank Carlos for the collabor🔜ation and I don’t want to block him or whatever,” Vasseur said.

“I think he did a very good job with us this season and a very professional one, because it would🌳 have been easy to, n🔯ot give up, but not have such a professional attitude.

“And for me, the best way to thank Carlos was also 🧔to give him the opportunity to do the test with Williams.”