Dec.10 (GMM) With Carlos Sainz already sitting in a Williams, Ferrari expects that the arrival of Lewis Hamilton in 2025 will give the Italian group a “good enhance”.
Just lately, the Spanish financial institution Santander departed Ferrari as a sponsor and the logos have now re-emerged on the 2024 Williams within the Abu Dhabi storage – the place a white-helmeted and suited Sainz is making his group debut this week.
Sainz, 30, is departing Ferrari on high kind – in whole distinction to seven time world champion Hamilton’s much less spectacular finish to his lengthy Mercedes tenure.
Nico Rosberg, who was Hamilton’s teammate at Mercedes some years in the past, says the jury is out as to how the 39-year-old will fare in purple overalls.
“Every little thing depends upon his kind,” Rosberg instructed Sky Italia.
“If it’s the identical as this 12 months, then it received’t be straightforward for him. If he finds his typical magic, it will likely be a spectacle.”
Hamilton’s largest deficit this 12 months has been his qualifying tempo, as he was considerably outclassed by teammate George Russell. “Hamilton had higher put together correctly,” mentioned former F1 driver Christijan Albers.
“As a result of if there’s a actual monster of qualifying in System 1 as of late, it’s Charles Leclerc. I even assume that if you happen to put Leclerc and Max Verstappen collectively, Max would have issues.”
At the least publicly, nevertheless, Ferrari is “not fearful” – as uttered by group boss Frederic Vasseur on the Abu Dhabi season finale final weekend.
The Frenchman additionally instructed reporters: “The arrival of Lewis offers us enhance.
“He will definitely see some issues in a different way than we do,” added Vasseur. “Lewis has 18 years of expertise and so many successes that his perspective is essential for our growth.
“He’ll assist us proceed the profitable path that we’re on. We have now had season and made a strong step ahead, as a result of now we have scored 50 p.c extra factors than final season. However the objective is to win titles.”
With an identical message, after Ferrari misplaced out on the constructors’ championship to McLaren, is the Maranello based mostly marque’s govt chairman, John Elkann.
He declared this week: “Let’s use this season as a place to begin for a 12 months in 2025 by which we might be much more aggressive.”
