“No,” he replied. “We determined as a group for that and we had been at all times very clear with Lewis, and the nice factor with him is he is ready to put himself in your place and understood the place we had been coming from.
“So, in that respect there are not any unhealthy emotions, there isn’t any betrayal. It was additionally for the nice of him to alter. This was the longest run between a driver and a group. It was 12 years total. And possibly he wanted to, in a manner, change and reinvent himself.
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“Being a driver for Ferrari is super-prestigious. Perhaps for us as a group additionally you will need to emancipate ourselves and go in a unique course.”
In Hamilton’s place will come extremely rated Mercedes protégé Kimi Antonelli, with the 18-year-old Italian – who has been racing in F2 this 12 months – getting ready to take over as George Russell’s group mate.
