Renault World Series stage winner Nikolai Martsenko tells a move to Ferrari could be Lewis Hamilton a good opportunity to win the eighth championship title of his career.
On Thursday it became known that the seven-time world champion had signed a multi-year contract with Ferrari, valid from 2025. The exact terms of the agreement were not announced. The 39-year-old Briton will replace Spaniard Carlos Sainz, who will spend his final season with the Italian team. Monegasque Charles Leclerc also signed a multi-year contract with Ferrari.
— From the outside, the transition from Mercedes to Ferrari seems shocking. In fact, everything is very beautiful, timely and rational for Lewis Hamilton’s career. Statistically, Hamilton is the most successful driver in Formula 1: he equaled the great Michael Schumacher in the number of titles, and even surpassed him in the number of victories and pole positions. He beat the older generation of drivers: Schumacher, Raikkonen, Alonso and Massa. He also beat the new generation in the person of his young Mercedes teammate George Russell, and almost defeated Max Verstappen with an ambiguous ending in the 2021 season. Because, fundamentally, they were equals and, in some respects, Hamilton was even better.
Second point: of course, Lewis is a figure who attracts sponsors. He is very active, can participate in different fashion weeks, films and cartoons, etc. He has created a very cool personal brand through his career. These nuances are very important for Ferrari. And signing a contract with Hamilton is an absolute success for the Scuderia. This is a very cool move.
Basically, in F1, Lewis earned everything you could earn, the money you could earn. He leads a successful life outside of the “royal races”. It would seem, what else is needed? But Hamilton is a true motorsport fan. He has been doing this since childhood and continues to do it at an incredibly high level to this day. He’s an athlete at heart. Therefore, the most rational decision was to end his career in such a legendary team as Ferrari. Of course, with the possibility of winning the title at forty and thus breaking the Scuderia’s streak without a title, which has lasted for many years.
At the same time, Lewis will make the transition a year before the F1 regulation change. In 2026 there will be a new regulation that will reset the current level of teams. So for Hamilton, this move to Ferrari could be an excellent opportunity to try to win the eighth title of his career with the new regulations. Hamilton is in great shape, he is incredibly talented and adapts well to everything. He definitely has five seasons left in Formula 1 at a high level: until the age of 44, he can easily compete there, if, of course, he wants to,” Martsenko told .
The Briton has won six championship titles with Mercedes (another with McLaren in 2008).
Hamilton shares the record with Michael Schumacher for the most Formula One titles and is the only driver to have won 100 or more championship races (103 victories).
Source : MatchTV
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