Nico Rosberg has given his verdict on his former team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s transfer to Ferrari.
The seven-time champion shocked the F1 world when it was introduced in February that he could be becoming a member of the Maranello squad from 2025 on a multi-year contract.
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The gorgeous switch marks the top of an iconic relationship between Hamilton and Mercedes – which dates again to his debut season in 2007 together with his Mercedes powered McLaren – that has seen him win six of his seven drivers’ titles between 2014 and 2020.
Whereas the Brit described the transfer as a ‘childhood dream’ of his, he’s decided to go away Mercedes on a excessive word, however the 2024 season has caused extra struggles which have been current because the starting of the ground-effect period.
Lewis Hamilton will be a part of Ferrari in 2025
The transfer ends a 12-year relationship with Mercedes
Rosberg believes Hamilton making the appropriate determination
Hamilton has did not win a race since Jeddah in 2021 and has been very vocal about his discontent together with his equipment over the past couple of seasons.
Up to now in 2024, the 39-year-old has recorded a finest end of seventh within the opening spherical in Bahrain and at the moment sits ninth within the championship with simply 19 factors scored.
Talking with Sky Sports activities, Rosberg, who gained the 2016 world championship after a tense battle with Hamilton as team-mates at Mercedes, believes shifting to Ferrari is the ‘proper determination’, and instructed historical past may repeat itself after he left McLaren for the Brackley squad again in 2013.
“It got here as an enormous shock,” he stated. “Nobody anticipated it. However When you have a look at the grand scheme of issues, then why not?
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Nico Rosberg raced with Hamilton at Mercedes from 2013-2016
“It is in direction of the top of his profession. There are two legendary groups – Mercedes and Ferrari – and I do know Lewis has all the time been an enormous fan of Ferrari street vehicles additionally, so why not make that swap and have a distinct expertise of driving in crimson as soon as?
“In the mean time, it appears in efficiency phrases to be the appropriate determination for him, which perhaps he is made a tremendous transfer like he did 12 years in the past by shifting from McLaren for Mercedes.
“McLaren was successful races and Mercedes was nowhere, and the second he moved, McLaren went backwards and Mercedes began successful races. Possibly he can get the identical timing executed once more.”
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