Ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok believes 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton’s decision to leave Mercedes for Ferrari is a “calculated risk”, but one that has “worked out”꧋ be♍fore.

Hamil✨ton officially joined Ferrari on January 1, 2025.

Hamilton had spent 12 year♔s at Mercedes, winning six of his seven titles with them.&❀nbsp;

The seven-time world champion will now l👍ikely finish his F1 c𓄧areer with the Scuderia.

It’s the second time in his F1 career that Hamilꦿton has made a bombshell move. 

At the end of 2012, Hamilton left McLaren, which were title contendersඣ at the time, for Mercedes, which were effectively a midfield team.

Assessing his decision to leave Mercedes followi🀅ng a turbulent final season with the team, Chandhok told ♑the : “I think it was a punt because how could you tell what the opposition was doing? He would obviously have a feeling what was going on at Mercedes.

“He’s talked about people not necessarily listening to what he’s saying and not fully taking onboard s♍ome of his thoughts of where the cars should go.

“On reflection, earlier in the year, he was talking about some of those conversati🦋ons. Maybe that steered him into somewhere else where they might listen a bit more.”

“It’s worked out once”

Hamilton’s last ꦿF1 team move worked out better than anyone could have imagined. 

Immediately, Mercedes 𝓰overtook McLaren in performance terms.

Since Hamilton’s departure, McLaren have only returned to the t🔯op of F1 this y⛎ear, finishing ahead of Mercedes in the constructors’ championship.

Chandhok sees some parallels to Hamilton’s decision to leave McLaren, which was 🙈widely criticised at the time.

“I was re-watching some interviews that you [Ted Kravitz, who also appeared on the podcast] and Martin were doing towards the end of 2012 w🤪ith peoplౠe like Niki Lauda about Lewis coming to Mercedes,” he added.

“Even that was a bit of a punt. He just wanted a change of environme꧑nt to leave McLaren a🀅nd go somewhere else.

“I t🧸hink he does but it’s a calculated risk. It’s worked out once. Let’s see if it happens again.🌞”