He joins Ferrari on the eve of his fortieth birthday on 7 January as team-mate to Charles Leclerc in what many within the sport regard because the strongest driver line-up on the grid.
Ferrari completed 2024 on a excessive, narrowly lacking out on beating McLaren to the constructors’ championship.
Leclerc scored extra factors than any driver – and Ferrari greater than any rival crew – from the Dutch Grand Prix, the race after the game’s summer season break, to the tip of the season.
Hamilton has a brief however intense interval to adapt to his new crew earlier than the beginning of the season in Melbourne, Australia on 14-16 March.
Ferrari have given few particulars of their plans for Hamilton, however he’ll go to the manufacturing facility, drive the simulator, and do some days in a 2023 automobile, actions geared toward getting used to the brand new crew and the way in which the automobile is operated.
The 2025 Ferrari shall be launched on 19 February, sooner or later after F1’s first official season launch on the O2 in London.
The official pre-season check days shall be on 26-28 February in Bahrain, with Hamilton and Leclerc dividing their time within the new automobile equally.
Staff principal Frederic Vasseur stated at Ferrari’s official Christmas lunch final month that Hamilton’s first six weeks with the crew had been “crucial”.
“It’s not straightforward however he’s coming together with his personal expertise,” Vasseur stated. “However he’s not the rookie of the 12 months, I’m not apprehensive in any respect about this. It is usually the continuity of the earlier rules so we’ve some reference. I’m not apprehensive however it’s true it’s a problem.”
Vasseur expects 2025 to be a detailed battle for the championship between Ferrari, McLaren, Purple Bull and Mercedes.
