Only one eventuality could cause Lewis 🍰Hamilton to qu꧃it Ferrari early, it has been claimed.

Hamilton’s monumental move to Ferrari this year ties F1’s most successful driver and𝄹 team t🍰ogether.

Their association has been predicted to last at least for the next two♏ years but even beyond.

“A lot of this 🎐is fulfilling the dream of driving🅺 for Ferrari,” Lewis Larkam told the Crash F1 podcast.

“Hamilton has never pu⛄blicly admitted that while he was at Mercedes but it would have🌟 been a dream for him.

“The eighth title, ending that drought, is a bigger pull factor than being told th💎at ‘in 2026 we will have the best car’.

“Ferrari have also produced strong power ♔units so🍰 there are no concerns there.

“This is more about Hamilton having a fresh ♒start.

“Can we 🐭see Hamilton✨ staying at Ferrari for a long time? Yes.

“We’ve not seen anything from Mercedes that they’ve got an answer for their competitiveness that they’ve been lacking. But on top of that, they weren’t willi🍃ng to give him a long-term contract.

“Ferrari have basically said ‘we will 🙈give you whatever you want!’

“Hamilton will have known at Merced♓es that the long-term plan was tౠo bring Kimi Antonelli into the team.

“I cannot see him quitting before the end of the contract that he has signed,🐠 ﷺwhich is at least the end of 2026.

“The only 𝓡scenario where𒀰 he may quit is if he wins the title and retires as an eight-time world champion.

“He’s in it for the long haul and, even if it doesn’t go well, I don’t see him making such a huge move then walking away after a season or two𓆏.”

Lewis Hamilton 'wants to feel love and respect' at Ferrari

Connor McDonagh said: “There was talꦫk that Hamilton wasn’t offered an ambassadorial role [at Mercedes]. He didn’t feel loved, he felt that he 🌺wasn’t listened to in terms of feedback.

“These factors all played a big part.

“Everyone expects Mercedes to be quick in 2026 with the new power♔ units, so 🐽I think it was about the bigger picture of fulfilling a childhood dream.

“That long-term ambassadorial role, 🥃as well. Giancarlo Fisichella is still at Ferrari, and he drove for them in 2🐈009!

“So there is potential for Hamilton to be there for as long as he wants, also in terms of o🍸ther projects like fash𒆙ion.

“He wants to feel loved and respected.”

Next year, the new F1 regu🦋lations will create a level playing🦄 field and every team will aspire to building a dominant era. Mercedes are whispered, inside the F1 paddock, to have a particularly strong engine coming.

But Hamilton has been unable to win the ཧrecord eighth F1 drivers’ title with Mercedes, since missing out at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

He now has the oppoꦯrtunity to eclipse Michael Schumacher at Ferrari, the team where the legendary German enjoyed his heyday.