According to Paul di Resta, a former Formula 1 driver who is now pursuing a career in endurance racing, there was likely a particular factor that influenced Lewis Hamilton’s decision to switch to Ferrari in 2025.
The seven-time world champion has a long-standing relationship with Frederic Vasseur, now head of the Scuderia: in 2005 Hamilton won the Formula 3 Euro Series title, driving for the ASM team led by Vasseur, and in 2006 he became the GP2 champion with ART Grand Prix, where the French manager was not only leader, but also co-owner.
“Maybe I could have expected that Lewis would make such a decision at some point,” di Resta told Sport.de. “But this is a serious decision for someone who is at such a stage of his career and who achieved all his success in Formula 1 with cars with Mercedes engines.
Frederic Vasseur is of course a born racer. Like Lewis, I rode for his team many years ago and know how he does things. Time will tell if he is the man Ferrari needs, but it is clear that Hamilton was somehow persuaded to make this decision by promising him some guarantees – there must have been something else that led him to this step has taken.
I think this is great news for the motorsport world, for Formula 1, and if he manages to win another title with Ferrari, it will be the next very important achievement for him and sum up what has already been an incredibly successful career has been. But it is a difficult task.”
Source: F1 News
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