Lewis Hamilton won’t be pushing Ferrari to switch to black F1 car livery

Lewis Hamilton says he has no intention to push Ferrari to desert their iconic scarlet pink colors and swap to a black F1 livery when he joins the crew.

The seven-time world champion is quitting Mercedes on the finish of the yr forward of a blockbuster transfer to Ferrari in 2025, the place he’ll accomplice Charles Leclerc.

Mercedes, who’ve historically raced in silver since 1954, famously switched to a black livery as a part of a brand new anti-racism marketing campaign for the 2020 season.

They used the livery by way of 2020 and 2021 earlier than returning to silver for the 2022 season. In 2023, Mercedes reverted to black in a bid to avoid wasting weight, whereas their 2024 challenger options a mixture of each colors.

Forward of the Canadian Grand Prix, Hamilton was requested if he’ll request a black F1 livery from Ferrari president John Elkann.

“I haven’t pushed a black automotive for some time, so I most likely gained’t be pushing for that too early on, however no,” the 39-year-old Briton responded.

Having influenced change throughout his time at Mercedes, Hamilton confirmed he’ll proceed his variety push when he joins Ferrari.

“We’ve positively spoken about influence work and John and the crew have a number of philanthropy work that they do, so we’ll be working very intently with Mission 44 and with the influence stuff that they’re doing,” he defined.

“I believe inside the sport, we have now to proceed to do extra, however extra exterior we’ll be doing fairly a bit collectively, in order that’s actually thrilling.”

Earlier this yr, Hamilton revealed his variety push was a key matter throughout his negotiations with Ferrari.

“In fact, you have a look at Ferrari, they’ve a number of work to do, so I’ve already made {that a} precedence in talking with John,” Hamilton stated in February. “And so they’re tremendous excited to work on it additionally.”

Hamilton launched Mission44 – a non-profit organisation which goals to enhance variety in F1 and the broader motorsport world – in 2021, investing £20m of his personal cash into the challenge.