Eddie Jordan backtracks on criticism of Ferrari for signing Lewis Hamilton

“I’m totally warm to the idea that Ferrari, f♛or all sorts of reasons, particularly commercial, made the right decis🎃ion.”

Eddie Jordan
Eddie Jordan

Eddie Jordan has backtracked on his opinion that Ferrari shouldn’t have signed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton, conceding he's warmed to the idea that they've made ꦬthe right dec𓃲ision after his first appearance at Maranello. 

Last year, Jordan suggested Ferrari should have kept 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc in 2025, rather than signing Hamitlon.

Ferrari narrowly missed out on the 2024 F1 constructorsᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ’ title to McLaren, finishing just 14 points behind.

Jordan slammed Ferrari for making the “suicidal” decision to replace Sainz with Hamilton, claiming signing the seven-time world champion would impact the har𒀰mony within the team.

In the latest episode of the , Jordan seemingly changed his opinion on Hamilton to Ferrari and was in awe of 💜the 40-year-old’s first appearance at Maranello.

“We heard recently about the crash, which is unfortunate because I also saw the photograph of the many, many, many thousands of the Tifosi that turned up to take photographs, wishing him well just on a little reconnaissance trip with the💝 car,” Jordan said.

“So🧔. you can imagine what it’s going to be like on Grand Prix day. I think he will be a huge draw.

“And it’ll be iconic, that photograph will be used for many, ma🍨ny, many years to come because of the way it is, and it depends, of course, [on] how he gets on, but at the same time I think the photograph will be used.

“I think he’s not just box office for For꧑mula 1, I think he’s box office everywhere, particularly in the Americas, in Asia, we know about Europe. I’m totally warm to the idea that Ferrari, for all sorts of reasons, particularly com🍃mercial, made the right decision.”

Jordan hails “iconic” Hamilton photograph

The former BBC F1 pundit lavished praise on Hamilton for his “eye-catching” first photograph in front of E💙nzo Ferrari’s old home in Maranello.

The photograph broke the record for the mo🧜st number of likes for an F1-related post on Instagram.

Jordan expeꦗcts that photograph of Hamilton willꦛ stand the test of time and be shown for many years.

“What I thought was unbeliev🅷ably eye-catching, that photograph of Lewis Hamilton in that coat, it just depicts why I think Ferrari went for him,” Jordan added.

“He’s box office. Absolutely. And please check, I think you will find as close to 6 million likes about the way he looked on his appearance in that very styli𓆉sh photograph.

“And it’ll be iconic, that photograph will be﷽ used for many, many, many years to come because of the way it is, and it depends, of course, how he gets on, but at the same time I think the photograph will be🌸 used.”

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