Former Method 1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone will not be a fan of Lewis Hamilton’s headline transfer to Ferrari forward of the 2025 season.
The Brit departs a Mercedes crew that he has cast a dynasty with throughout 11 years – together with successful six championships in a seven-season span between 2014 and 2020.
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It seems that he’s leaping ship on the proper time, with the Silver Arrows trending within the fallacious path from the sharp finish of the grid.
Hamilton has failed to choose up a race victory since 2021, and Ferrari look as if they’re starting to mount a problem to Purple Bull.
Rumours that Max Verstappen may go away their setup, coupled with the affirmation that Adrian Newey will depart implies that the Milton Keynes-based outfit might be extra vulnerable than ever to a problem from their rivals.
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Bernie Ecclestone will not be a fan of Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari transfer
Ecclestone unimpressed by Hamilton Ferrari transfer
Ferrari are in a much better place to problem Purple Bull than every other crew on the grid, however former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone nonetheless isn’t a fan of Hamilton’s transfer.
“It was a wierd, unusual transfer to make,” he informed RacingNews365. “Toto has relied on him an terrible lot extra and so they’ve turn out to be shut for egocentric causes – each of them.
“I don’t assume there was ever a form of a relationship the place you might depend on each events. There clearly wasn’t as a result of that’s why he all of a sudden determined to depart,” Ecclestone continued.
“Large shock in so far as I didn’t perceive why he did it, given the yr’s discover mainly. Why didn’t he wait [to announce it] till in a while throughout the season?
“Folks thought [Ferrari had] accomplished a intelligent deal in taking him, however I believe it’s a little bit of an ego factor that he acquired latched into all of it.”
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