Lewis Hamilton says he is ‘invigorated’ by Ferrari move at F1 75 season launch event
Meanwhile, host Jack Whitehall joked that Mercedes would see their former champions go out for their competitors.
Hamilton became the most successful driver in F1 history, racing for Silver Arrows. Now, he is in the sport’s largest, most famous, most historically-named partnership, which has caused a huge buzz and is still less than a month away this season.
“It’s everyone’s worst nightmare,” Whitehall said. “Your 10-year companion ran away with an Italian stallion.”
Hamilton, teammate Charles Leclerc and Ferrari boss Frederic Vasseur flew straight back to Italy after the show for Wednesday’s Ferrari 2025 in Maranello (Maranello) is preparing for the 2025 racing. Like other teams, the car on stage is a performance car in this year’s paint job, not a machine that will compete for this championship.
But Hamilton, who had gone to Ferrari to secure a record eighth championship, was far from the only driver who felt the love of the audience.
The most popular names are not surprising – Leclerc, Hamilton’s Briton Lando Norris, his McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri, Aston Martin’s veteran legend Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, now at Williams’s Carlos Sainz and Mercedes’s George’s George Russell has russed the roof.
Facing comedian Whitehall’s biggest rib, Leclerc seizes every opportunity to joke about the appearance of Monaco natives.
And there was a rude part. Norris even used naughty words as an insulting insult in a good exchange with Whitehall. One person trusts FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem, Crusades against bad language In F1, most people think that most people are considered wrong, which will decide not to pursue it in this case.
Of course, Gordon Ramsay, a celebrity chef who has a commercial deal with the sport, would think so. “If it comes out, then it comes out,” Ramsey said in an interview with the VIP area. “Let them be real.”
Ben Sulayem is certainly wise not to make the good taste left over from events that seem to have been a huge success.
