Hamilton signed a contract extension with Mercedes to continue past 2024, which is why it was so surprising when, a few months later, his departure from the team was announced. Hamilton isn’t the first driver to make a switch of this kind,

Lewis Hamilton has opened up on the biggest change he'll need to make at Ferrari after his P5 finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Ferrari are lacking pure pace to rivals Mercedes in the opening stages of the F1 2025 season. That is the claim made by seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton, as he assessed how Ferrari compare against the Mercedes team which he left after re-writing records at every turn in order to realise a childhood dream by joining Ferrari.