Maranello closer
With six races left until the end of the 2024 world championship, the concrete passage of Lewis Hamilton in Ferrariexpected in Maranello next year after the contract signed even before this season with the Prancing Horse. Everything is ready, as is the seven-time world champion’s greetings to Mercedes, with which he won six titles, opening the golden era of the Brackley company with the introduction of power units in F1.
18 years without a World Cup
In Italy, especially among Ferrari fans, the big doubt remains: Hamilton’s arrival will be able to put an end to the lack of victories in the world championship which has persisted in Maranello since 2007when Raikkonen did he manage to get the better of the then rookie Hamilton at the last GP of the year in Brazil? Furthermore, a possible success for the Englishman would allow the latter to reach altitude eight world titlesovertaking a legend like Michael Schumacher in the all-time rankings.
The ‘future’ of Hamilton
Nobody can know yet, obviously, but a possible success would ‘guarantee’ a particular future for Hamilton, at least in the words of the former Haas Team Principal Gunther Steiner. In the podcast Beyond the Gridthe Bolzano manager remarked with a joke the importance of Hamilton’s possible world championship success with Ferrari: “I think he wants to try to do magicthat is, bringing Ferrari back to winning championships, and I believe that this is the objective that gives him enormous motivation – he declared – obviously I didn’t talk to him about it, but you can see that this is his motivation. ‘I’m the best of all time, I’ve won seven world championships, what more can I do?’ If he does a good job winning the title with Ferrari, it will end up in the Vatican“.
The relationship with Vasseur
A victory that would also sweeten the relationship between Hamilton and the team principal Frederic Vasseuras well as outlining the importance of a historic brand like Ferrari: “I think that Ferrari without Formula 1 is not Ferrari, and Formula 1 without Ferrari is not Formula 1 – continued Steiner – I think this is the magic that this Prancing Horse brings with it, and if you have the chance to be part of it as a driver he is in a good position, and he is very close to Fred Vasseur. Lewis and Fred know each other, they have won a lot in the preparatory formulas. They are very in tune, they want to achieve a great result together and if they could It would be pretty cool for both of us“.
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