When I visited the hungarroring back in 2022. Every team had one dude and one girl Manning the merch booths, everyone accept Ferrari. They had the 2 hottest babes in all off Budapest manning their booth
Some people are so ignorant is pathetic. Ferrari doesn't only have Italians, team principal is a French performance engineer is an English, Strategic head is an Indian, they are hiring more and more French engineers, also there 2026 engine project is headed by wolf Zimmerman an German. So take this they hire only Italians BS cake and eat it.
Me too! I started watch F1 and became a Verstappen fan two years before he became the champ. But I still rout for Ferrari. I like Leclerc, and am glad he and Max are pals. I can’t help but also cheer for Alonso. I mean, how can you not! 😀
And the real main reason: Merc only offered him a 2 year deal, and he wanted to stay in F1 with a works team beyond 2026 to have a crack at the new rules. If Merc had offered him a 4 year deal he would have taken it. 🤷♂️
Hamilton will get another no no. 1s scenario. Both will work towards Ferrari's future and Hamilton is here to finish his legacy. Even getting a single win with Ferrari will make it all worth it and Lewis and Sainz have the same driving styles so they essentially traded young Lewis for experienced Lewis. Win-win on all sides. I still think if given the right set-up, Leclerc will beat Hamilton, consistently. That kid is brilliant. I mean, you don't just beat the Sébastien Vettel two years in a row and force him to jump ships. That needs serious talent, talent which he has.
@@ZAH33D I don’t see how it’s a win-win. That would be having a younger Hamilton to grow with the team, aka Sainz. Hamilton is coming in to shred the Ferrari tradition with progressive-think. F that.
@@missjungjeelee i guess it depends on what you mean by ”future”. 3 years? 10+ years? I think Leclerc can be their man - but Hamilton isn’t. Who knows if Bearman is that guy, but he sure did impress last weekend. Congrats to that young man!
@@BobC59 Bearman only has 2 points in F2 rn and he is getting beat by his teammate - Kimi Antonelli. He has more points in F1 than F2. Even though they are both in Prema 💀
Hamilton is friends with Vettel, so my guess is he knows exactly how Ferrari works on the inside and Italian media covers it. That's why he saod Ferrari specially has a lot of work to do on that front. You can't include people without changing the views of those who say "this group doesn't belong here" to ignore whatever trait and care only about performance.
@@RadeticDaniel you took what I said there and then added a lot on it. Ferrari is stubbornly stuck in their ways is the only point I am trying to make. Nothing more nothing less. Sure he did his due diligence 👍
He'll bring some dinosaurs into the present and some will inevitably be left behind. I, personally, am excited for LH and Scuderia. F1 needed this. Roll on 2025!
@@RadeticDanielNow apply that logic to a heart surgeon, performance is subservient to diversity. "I dont care if my surgeon is any good, just as long as they have certain immutable traits"
I think, he's sort of accepted that his run might be over, and he's OK with that and he needs to think about himself now and his legacy. When Mercedes give you a pay cut, a short contract and won't make you an ambassador, that feels quite disrespectful after everything you've done. When you're seemingly ignored on car development. When you get podiums in a terrible car and your team isn't there when to celebrate. All these things add up and when not just another team, but FERRARI go out of there way to show how much you mean to them, it's not really a fucking hard decision to make, let's just say that.
So true. This man helped them win 8 titles consecutively and they didn't want to make him an ambassador yet, how disrespectful. I thought they would tell him he can leave when he wants and even after he left, I thought for sure mercedes would push him to take up Niki lauda's old position in the organization, but to hear about all the things they didn't want to give him after working so hard for them, I'm pretty sure that must've been heartbreaking. Pretty poor decision making from the stuttgart executives.
That merc had the most to gain from agreeing to all his demands and didn’t demonstrates what Ferrari have done is not a sensible decision. Ferrari cannot appropriate his success from merc people are not that easily fooled. He cannot be as successful at Ferrari as he was at merc he’s too old. And if he’s unsuccessful it will look like a very expensive cheap stunt.
@@nigelkelley3004 Fair analysis. However, merc had the most to lose by letting him go, I disagree that he's too old to be successful at Ferrari, if lewis is given a competitve car he'd still be able to win titles, I mean if lewis was in a Red Bull do you think he wouldn't be able to challenge and beat max?. On Ferrari's end it's a WIN-WIN whichever way you look at it, if lewis doesn't win more titles they still gain monetary value for their organization by being the only team to have 2 of the most succesful drivers in F1 history. When the information of him going to Ferrari came out, their stock price went up and they increased their market cap by $4 Billion, if lewis does manage to win titles at Ferrari however, Mercedes will essentially have lost out on being the team that ushered in a new record of having the driver with the most Championships in the sport's history, and Ferrari will have the bragging rights of being the only team to have broken the record of having a 7 time world champion but also going further by breaking their own record and having the only driver that equalled schumacher and went on to break his record. When you look at it from that point of view, Mercedes had a lot more to lose by letting him go. So why not keep him there and even if he doesn't win more titles you wouldn't want the risk of another team stealing the possibility of holding that record. In regards to age, Alonso is older than Lewis and still here, and as we saw at the beginning of Last year he was more than capable to perform at a high level and if given the right car he would've definitely been able to challenge Max and Red bull, so your view that Lewis is too old to be successful is invalid, I mean he was the only one who could challenge Max in 2021, and that hasn't changed he just needs a fast enough car.
@@MumbiYamba for Ferrari it's amazing deal. Their marketing skyrocketed. The most famous, with the most titles from the current grid. It was typically economic move. Ferrari for sure is gonna earn much from this cooperation. From economic point of view - amazing move. But what about sport point of view? Lewis had slightly better car than Verstappen and still had huge problems and huge amount of luck to fight for title in the last race of the season. The questions are, does Hamilton can still fight on track? Does he can be a second driver? And what about his ego? Can he keep cool head? Mercedes gave him dominant car for years, we see his breakdown in weaker car. Now imagine weaker car and Ferrari strategy... This move is really interesting and I can't wait to see how it is gonna turn out
@@MumbiYambaI don’t think he would beat Max in a red bull he lost to him when in a superior Mercedes. If he fails at Ferrari they won’t really have bragging rights because he won’t have won with them. Everyone will know his success came from Mercedes so Ferrari won’t be able to appropriate that success in a credible way. If he does win some races and even a championship that would be great but again he won’t be able to replicate what he did at Mercedes he’s too late in his career. This is why I see it as a marketing stunt by Ferrari rather than a good sporting decision. I’m surprised Mercedes ‘let him go’ but clearly they didn’t think what he was asking for was worth the cost.
The 100 million dollar pay day has NOTHING to do with it. ... 100 million dollars for a driver at the end of his career.. Ferrari is smoking something...
“Diversity initiatives at Ferrari” yes, let’s make the ONLY Italian team on the grid, less Italian. It’s time we just call this what it is, pro “minority” agitations is polite terminology for institutional European displacement, to favour those much less deserving or representative.
What are you on about? Russell is not the quintessentially perfect driver but is more than valid enough to lead Mercedes. Man's quick and wellspoken, he'll do well given he still has the right age to still improve in many areas...
Every great F1 driver has a dominant run with Ferrari. It's just a thing of money. They pay a lot for the chance to dominate. I am looking forward to see them ahead once again.
In my opinion, the only criteria for hiring someone, should be competence. An that is for the all the lines of work. If you are competent enough, all the rest shouldn`t matter.
It’s simple. Mercedes Benz f’n blows! They haven’t been competitive in 3 years! Lewis wants another championship and he needs a car capable of competing with Redbull.
the real question is does his contract make him the number one driver or number 2? i don’t think leclerc would settle for number two. unless ferrari decide to have no team order and let them really fight it out it on the track.
Never was, only cheered for Massa and Vettel from before Ferrari and after they've left. Ferrari is either a career graveyard and a team where legends go to retire xD And they didn't even give Kimi the time to retire on his own
Ferrari does not need diversity. It is an Italian company operating in Italy. If he wants to do anything positive, be like Schumacher, Prost, Villeneuve, Lauda, Vettle, and Alonso. Learn ITALIAN
Ahh yes the pasta kids think their the master race not the race that wins no dominates every single sport (black) or the race the dominates in every aspect of schooling (asian) MAYBE you should learn Chinese and learn to love US instead of making pasta and supporting red flags with black lines
While I can see Hamilton being genuine in his motivation to improve diversity in F1, he is still a multimillionaire celebrity and is in a very privileged position being able to do this as a living. Sure I acknowledge that he has faced racism and is most likely facing barriers due to his race. However I view this rather the same way as when other celebrities talk about social issues and it being sort of profitable for them. Sure it is a good thing that he is talking about these issues openly for a long time now and he is using his privileged position to do so, however I am not entirely sure if he would do so if it resulted in negative outcomes to his career. Hell part of why I feel this way, is in large parts the same reason why I really don't buy into the F1s (or any other company for that matter) talk about climate change or human rights or any other social issues.
The Merc decline over the past couple of years with no clear path to matching the Red Bull also played in, cuz a Ferrari drive might just get Sir Lewis his next driver's championship.
Have been a Ferrari fan since childhood, never loved Hamilton but is a great driver and I am very excited to see what he can do. Hopefully he can be the first since Kimi
If he had made this move 7-8 years ago he might have won a title or two in red. I don't see him winning any championships at Ferrari. Nobody wants to say it but he's not the driver he was a couple years ago and you know Leclerc isn't going to do the Bottas wing man thing. I think at best he'll win a couple races and show up on the podium once in awhile.
😂😂😂 Niki would’ve told him, “Stay the hell away from Ferrari.” - Lauda left Ferrari because of the politics, and despite being a double world champion for them, they started giving preferential treatment to Carlos Reutemann (a rookie) AND they basically were trying to treat their two car team like a three car team AND they really alienated Lauda when they dropped his friend Clay Regazzoni from the team.
Surely there has to be something else big happening Hamilton knows about that made him switch! I wonder if we will hear about big signings on the personnel side that will make his move to Ferrari look even better! Be interesting to watch what happens with this story before his switch in 2025!
I think we all knew that this will happen sooner or later, if Mercedes will stop building championship winning cars. Ferrari desperately need to win a championship, and Lewis as well. And if Ferrari have time, Lewis don’t. Plus it’s a legendary team. Plus a lot of money. So it’s only logical that he made this move. Bravo 👏🏻
Lets look at it different, Lots of money, lots of money, heratige brand, PR stunt, and thats it. Hamilton will not win anything with Ferrari as they see there nr1 driver beeing Leclere. its just One brand that gets max out of the PR team and the driver gets a serious pay salary.
@@Timberjagiyes I suppose it does. However, I would have thought Mercedes would know the value of that and be in a better position to realise it given his history with them. That Mercedes didn’t agree to his demands suggests they didn’t think the returns were there.
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Mercedes wouldn't have deserved another contract with Lewis to be honest, he wasted way too much of his prime time in Mercedes just for them to do something they shouldn't have done.
They gifted him the best car , so less drama . He ran from mclaren when they couldnt give him the best car, and now runs from Mercedes. Always going for the very easy mode.😂
Watch him rage quit 😂 2 years no wins, this year I’m giessing no wins! Fez you are going to waste good money on a drama diva that just can’t compete anymore 😂 🤡
He realized that he was becoming irrelevant and this was his last gasp at being in the spotlight, it’s not going to be pretty, yeah he got paid but this is a train wreck waiting to happen.
And there I was thinking the priority would be racing the car, but no, apparently diversity is what a F1 team should be all about. Counting women, skin-color and sexual preferences is much more interesting then car racing.
1 reason: Because he cant enjoy engine benefit in Mercedes anymore. Seeing how he trash McLaren after join Mercedes 2013 i expect he didnt change with recent comment on Mercedes engineering was wrong and he is right 😉
@@TheSlowoldman I mean only when you have the humor of an 8 year old, which you proved you have since you found it so hilarious. And creative? Literally every hamilton haters first criticism is "oh haha look hes such a feminine diva". Not really creative when its been done a thousand times before
It's interesting that he loves Ferrari that much for so long. After all, he raced for the Ferrari's old enemy(McLaren), and ever since Nico left, Ferrari were the main competetor to Mercedes till 2020. I guess "Everyone is a Ferrari fan" after all.
You could also take it to mean, it wasn't something that Lewis randomly decided to do in haste. I'm not defending Alonso here, but giving another perspective.
The same Alonso who fixed a race and lied and said he knew nothing, the same Alonso who had Ferrari intel in his emails while at McLaren in spygate, and tried to blackmail his own team.
LH has spent all his younger years bigging up Senna at McLaren and Mercedes and rarely ever spoke about Michael. Don’t buy this bollocks from LH now. This is about contract duration and money, pure and simple. He knows he’s not winning at Mercedes Benz AMG Petronas until Red Bull falls off a cliff so he knows he’s done until the new regs at least now.
Indeed. If you watch the early footage of him in F1 it was always references to Senna (hence the yellow helmet design) and I remember him saying he always used to play as Raikkonen in a McLaren whilst playing the old F1 video games. I don't remember Ferrari being mentioned at all.
@@mr8I7 Exactly. If anything he was a McLaren fanboy. He kept away from Ferrari on virtually every occasion. He doesn’t even like Schumacher being a Brit. This kinda of bullshit sucking up is why LH is unpopular. People don’t like political favouritism bullshit as an attempt to be authentic. Least with some other drivers, they say it straight and get on with things, whether you like em or not.
Just about the money…..nothing more. The Mercedes episode in the years DtS is pretty embarrassing. Toto got totally blindsided by this move and all the crap about how ‘special’ their relationship is was cringeworthy to watch. Hamilton himself is a hypocrite. Trying to sell the world how much he’s a Mercedes driver for life🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hamilton is a fantastic driver. Top three all time I would suggest. Why not just be straightforward and tell the truth. The money. Stop trying to make me believe this childhood dream of driving for Ferrari. He had just put pen to paper 3-4 months earlier with Mercedes. So again, it’s all bullshit.
It’s not even a bomb shell decision. He couldn’t win without the balls out fastest car. He knows Mercedes won’t get back there before he retires, so he took gamble with Ferrari. You can say redbull last season was dominate but max won with a slower car and checo proved it takes a special talent to make the redbull dominate. The Mercedes was so good everyone could win with it.
He doesn’t seem to mind that for every ‘diversity hire’ someone that’s fully deserving is going to have to be removed from his/her position. Does that not upset him? Of course not, he only cares about the colour of the person in the position. Also most likely why his Mercedes team took a downward curve after his diversity calls. Want a good position in life? Go work hard, and climb the ladder.
Also money, a lot of money.
😂 Yh dum dum
How much money, and how would you know?
Every single person is in F1 is in it for the money, fame and then more money. That's a given fact.
@@byanymeansnecessary9329around a 100 million.
Straight to the point 🎉
Hamilton: Ok now for some Diversity guys!
Ferrari: We are checking
Yea Ferrari doesn’t care about diversity they care about hiring the right people for the job so they can win
@@jbombs7511they’ve been doing a good job at that so far
@@jbombs7511Change "the right people" to "the people with the desired nationality (Italian)" snd you are correct.
When I visited the hungarroring back in 2022. Every team had one dude and one girl Manning the merch booths, everyone accept Ferrari. They had the 2 hottest babes in all off Budapest manning their booth
Some people are so ignorant is pathetic. Ferrari doesn't only have Italians, team principal is a French performance engineer is an English, Strategic head is an Indian, they are hiring more and more French engineers, also there 2026 engine project is headed by wolf Zimmerman an German.
So take this they hire only Italians BS cake and eat it.
Even as a non ferrari fan, I am an Ferrari fan
Me too! I started watch F1 and became a Verstappen fan two years before he became the champ. But I still rout for Ferrari. I like Leclerc, and am glad he and Max are pals. I can’t help but also cheer for Alonso. I mean, how can you not! 😀
@@BobC59 If you are an alonso hater, you don't exist
I loved Lewis hamilton Black and Green color scheme on mercedes. Tho I respect him for tryjng something new
@@BobC59pick a team
@@hedjecks578 Red Bull (any other questions?). Jeez man, one need not hate their competitors to rout for a team.
Going to be a sick combo to see Lec and Hamilton as teamates. But its gonna be strange to see this guy in all red
I love Leclerc but to see OLLIE BEARMAN LEWIS HAMILTON in Ferrari would be for real AWESOME
@@missjungjeelee Bearman did kill it this weekend...kids gonna be good.
And the real main reason: Merc only offered him a 2 year deal, and he wanted to stay in F1 with a works team beyond 2026 to have a crack at the new rules. If Merc had offered him a 4 year deal he would have taken it. 🤷♂️
It wasn’t a 2 year deal, it was a 1+1 which meant Merc could’ve dropped him at the end of 2024 anyway (unlikely but with one eye on antonelli)
You his agent?
Agent? Lil bro this is common knowledge to legit F1, shit.. simply racing, fans.
@@christiansimmons630 Merc offered 2 years, Lewis pushed for a 1+1 buddy, that’s been confirmed. Makes sense, gives him better options time wise.
@@mitchdaytonam3 that it totally incorrect. It was the other way around. Lewis wanted the fixed length but Merc offered him the 1+1
But to the bigger questions: Why would Ferrari let Sainz go, and what happens to LeClerc? Surely Hamilton didn’t agree to playing second fiddle
Hamilton will get another no no. 1s scenario. Both will work towards Ferrari's future and Hamilton is here to finish his legacy. Even getting a single win with Ferrari will make it all worth it and Lewis and Sainz have the same driving styles so they essentially traded young Lewis for experienced Lewis. Win-win on all sides. I still think if given the right set-up, Leclerc will beat Hamilton, consistently. That kid is brilliant. I mean, you don't just beat the Sébastien Vettel two years in a row and force him to jump ships. That needs serious talent, talent which he has.
I don't think Leclerc is the future of Ferrari. Ollie Bearman type is the future of the Sport.
@@ZAH33D I don’t see how it’s a win-win. That would be having a younger Hamilton to grow with the team, aka Sainz. Hamilton is coming in to shred the Ferrari tradition with progressive-think. F that.
@@missjungjeelee i guess it depends on what you mean by ”future”. 3 years? 10+ years? I think Leclerc can be their man - but Hamilton isn’t. Who knows if Bearman is that guy, but he sure did impress last weekend. Congrats to that young man!
@@BobC59 Bearman only has 2 points in F2 rn and he is getting beat by his teammate - Kimi Antonelli. He has more points in F1 than F2. Even though they are both in Prema 💀
Hope he understands Italian culture and their views on "diversity".
Hamilton is friends with Vettel, so my guess is he knows exactly how Ferrari works on the inside and Italian media covers it.
That's why he saod Ferrari specially has a lot of work to do on that front.
You can't include people without changing the views of those who say "this group doesn't belong here" to ignore whatever trait and care only about performance.
More importantly he’s friends with Ferrari CEO John Elkann. Who has already agreed to the diversity pushes.
@@RadeticDaniel you took what I said there and then added a lot on it. Ferrari is stubbornly stuck in their ways is the only point I am trying to make. Nothing more nothing less. Sure he did his due diligence 👍
He'll bring some dinosaurs into the present and some will inevitably be left behind. I, personally, am excited for LH and Scuderia. F1 needed this. Roll on 2025!
@@RadeticDanielNow apply that logic to a heart surgeon, performance is subservient to diversity. "I dont care if my surgeon is any good, just as long as they have certain immutable traits"
I think, he's sort of accepted that his run might be over, and he's OK with that and he needs to think about himself now and his legacy. When Mercedes give you a pay cut, a short contract and won't make you an ambassador, that feels quite disrespectful after everything you've done. When you're seemingly ignored on car development. When you get podiums in a terrible car and your team isn't there when to celebrate. All these things add up and when not just another team, but FERRARI go out of there way to show how much you mean to them, it's not really a fucking hard decision to make, let's just say that.
So true. This man helped them win 8 titles consecutively and they didn't want to make him an ambassador yet, how disrespectful. I thought they would tell him he can leave when he wants and even after he left, I thought for sure mercedes would push him to take up Niki lauda's old position in the organization, but to hear about all the things they didn't want to give him after working so hard for them, I'm pretty sure that must've been heartbreaking. Pretty poor decision making from the stuttgart executives.
That merc had the most to gain from agreeing to all his demands and didn’t demonstrates what Ferrari have done is not a sensible decision. Ferrari cannot appropriate his success from merc people are not that easily fooled. He cannot be as successful at Ferrari as he was at merc he’s too old. And if he’s unsuccessful it will look like a very expensive cheap stunt.
@@nigelkelley3004 Fair analysis. However, merc had the most to lose by letting him go, I disagree that he's too old to be successful at Ferrari, if lewis is given a competitve car he'd still be able to win titles, I mean if lewis was in a Red Bull do you think he wouldn't be able to challenge and beat max?. On Ferrari's end it's a WIN-WIN whichever way you look at it, if lewis doesn't win more titles they still gain monetary value for their organization by being the only team to have 2 of the most succesful drivers in F1 history. When the information of him going to Ferrari came out, their stock price went up and they increased their market cap by $4 Billion, if lewis does manage to win titles at Ferrari however, Mercedes will essentially have lost out on being the team that ushered in a new record of having the driver with the most Championships in the sport's history, and Ferrari will have the bragging rights of being the only team to have broken the record of having a 7 time world champion but also going further by breaking their own record and having the only driver that equalled schumacher and went on to break his record. When you look at it from that point of view, Mercedes had a lot more to lose by letting him go. So why not keep him there and even if he doesn't win more titles you wouldn't want the risk of another team stealing the possibility of holding that record. In regards to age, Alonso is older than Lewis and still here, and as we saw at the beginning of Last year he was more than capable to perform at a high level and if given the right car he would've definitely been able to challenge Max and Red bull, so your view that Lewis is too old to be successful is invalid, I mean he was the only one who could challenge Max in 2021, and that hasn't changed he just needs a fast enough car.
@@MumbiYamba for Ferrari it's amazing deal. Their marketing skyrocketed. The most famous, with the most titles from the current grid. It was typically economic move. Ferrari for sure is gonna earn much from this cooperation. From economic point of view - amazing move.
But what about sport point of view? Lewis had slightly better car than Verstappen and still had huge problems and huge amount of luck to fight for title in the last race of the season. The questions are, does Hamilton can still fight on track? Does he can be a second driver? And what about his ego? Can he keep cool head? Mercedes gave him dominant car for years, we see his breakdown in weaker car. Now imagine weaker car and Ferrari strategy...
This move is really interesting and I can't wait to see how it is gonna turn out
@@MumbiYambaI don’t think he would beat Max in a red bull he lost to him when in a superior Mercedes.
If he fails at Ferrari they won’t really have bragging rights because he won’t have won with them. Everyone will know his success came from Mercedes so Ferrari won’t be able to appropriate that success in a credible way.
If he does win some races and even a championship that would be great but again he won’t be able to replicate what he did at Mercedes he’s too late in his career.
This is why I see it as a marketing stunt by Ferrari rather than a good sporting decision. I’m surprised Mercedes ‘let him go’ but clearly they didn’t think what he was asking for was worth the cost.
My dads still coping about this
He claims it’s fake news or a rumor…despite Lewis himself, Toto Wolff and many more confirming it
FP1 next year at Bahrain: “He’s just doing some testing”
DC said it best " if the marriage papers are signed the divorce papers are already drawn"
When both sides fail to perform you go your own way.
Mmm yes, lets hire based not on talent, but superficial characteristics, worked great at merc
Did you just start watching f1 last year? Delete your dumb comment after you go look up the championship results from prior years.
Well maybe hiring whites was just that “superficial features”
The 100 million dollar pay day has NOTHING to do with it. ... 100 million dollars for a driver at the end of his career.. Ferrari is smoking something...
Holy shit the bot comments are on crack lately
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Hope Ferrari doesn't make Lewis lose his hair as they've done to Seb.
So, Zimbabwean engineers at Ferrari now?
“Diversity initiatives at Ferrari” yes, let’s make the ONLY Italian team on the grid, less Italian. It’s time we just call this what it is, pro “minority” agitations is polite terminology for institutional European displacement, to favour those much less deserving or representative.
What the fuck are you on about? You related to Mussolini or something?
Im pretty sure vcarb is based in italy
Mercedes has thrown it's lot in with Russell which going on age is right but on talent is like Kimi doing commentary
Sure, but it would be hilarious hearing Kimi do commentary.
What are you on about? Russell is not the quintessentially perfect driver but is more than valid enough to lead Mercedes. Man's quick and wellspoken, he'll do well given he still has the right age to still improve in many areas...
Let’s go Lulu, hammer time!
Every great F1 driver has a dominant run with Ferrari. It's just a thing of money. They pay a lot for the chance to dominate.
I am looking forward to see them ahead once again.
In my opinion, the only criteria for hiring someone, should be competence. An that is for the all the lines of work. If you are competent enough, all the rest shouldn`t matter.
The most bankable F1 driver ever in all areas the GOAT
Lol he is not in the same level of Fangio, Schumacher, Prost, Senna, Piquet, he always needs a good superior car with a MERCEDES MOTOR😂😂😂
It’s simple. Mercedes Benz f’n blows! They haven’t been competitive in 3 years!
Lewis wants another championship and he needs a car capable of competing with Redbull.
I feel with Lewis at Ferrari it'll pressure them into having to keep up with his level of performance, possible Ferrari revival?
LH moving to Ferrari sheds some new light on the rumours about him talking to RB…..
Also John Elkann wanted him more than he wanted his next breath
Wasn’t it also the ambassador area too? Mercedes wasn’t gonna lean on him to do that, which was a big no in Lewis’s eyes
the real question is does his contract make him the number one driver or number 2? i don’t think leclerc would settle for number two. unless ferrari decide to have no team order and let them really fight it out it on the track.
The only thing Hamilton can return Ferrari to is the pit garage
DEI Jesus Christ. How’d that work out Merc?
"Everybody's a Ferrari fan"
Not anymore
Never was, only cheered for Massa and Vettel from before Ferrari and after they've left.
Ferrari is either a career graveyard and a team where legends go to retire xD
And they didn't even give Kimi the time to retire on his own
Now his decision is justified
Can’t wait to see how much better diversity over talent works at Ferrari! Ask American Airlines how much better their product is.
Fred & Rory Byrne is the reason he switching
I agree. He's building a great and diverse team, as Ferrari did between 1996 and 1999. By 2000 nobody could match them.
Let's see if Hamilton can win his 8th WDC in Ferrari
Nope.
Probably not in 2025 but let’s see if Ferrari improves for the years to come with Lewis’s expertise.
I think this is the Psychological edge Hamilton lost when F1 robbed him of the Championship in Abu Dubai
He should have pitted for soft tires. He would have won.
I'm also hype for Lewis going to Ferrari!!
People coming up with all these elaborate explanations… I think he really just wants to drive a Ferrari 😂
Lol probably unlikely but would be funny/interesting if Max ended up in Mercedes and won a world championship there
Crap.... he thinks they have more chance of winning.
Is mercedes performance directly connected the Hamiltons dei changes?
Formula one teams should not be decided by diversity, it should be decided by Talent alone!! Whatever shape, size and colour it comes in is irrelevant
Who does Ferrari have “a lot of work to do”? Is there some sort of benefit to having a diverse team?
Ferrari does not need diversity. It is an Italian company operating in Italy. If he wants to do anything positive, be like Schumacher, Prost, Villeneuve, Lauda, Vettle, and Alonso. Learn ITALIAN
I'm sure he is studying Italian now. Easier than ever to learn languages with the computer apps available today.
*Massa too, actually. It’s why the Tifosi weren’t particularly connected to Raikkonen, he didn’t really try but they always loved Massa.
Ahh yes the pasta kids think their the master race not the race that wins no dominates every single sport (black) or the race the dominates in every aspect of schooling (asian) MAYBE you should learn Chinese and learn to love US instead of making pasta and supporting red flags with black lines
After all I read about Lewis, I’m pretty sure he is learning Italian as we speak.
While I can see Hamilton being genuine in his motivation to improve diversity in F1, he is still a multimillionaire celebrity and is in a very privileged position being able to do this as a living. Sure I acknowledge that he has faced racism and is most likely facing barriers due to his race. However I view this rather the same way as when other celebrities talk about social issues and it being sort of profitable for them.
Sure it is a good thing that he is talking about these issues openly for a long time now and he is using his privileged position to do so, however I am not entirely sure if he would do so if it resulted in negative outcomes to his career. Hell part of why I feel this way, is in large parts the same reason why I really don't buy into the F1s (or any other company for that matter) talk about climate change or human rights or any other social issues.
The Merc decline over the past couple of years with no clear path to matching the Red Bull also played in, cuz a Ferrari drive might just get Sir Lewis his next driver's championship.
150 million dollars a year. That’s why.
Have been a Ferrari fan since childhood, never loved Hamilton but is a great driver and I am very excited to see what he can do. Hopefully he can be the first since Kimi
Hamilton: Let me do a remake of 1991😂
If he had made this move 7-8 years ago he might have won a title or two in red. I don't see him winning any championships at Ferrari. Nobody wants to say it but he's not the driver he was a couple years ago and you know Leclerc isn't going to do the Bottas wing man thing. I think at best he'll win a couple races and show up on the podium once in awhile.
The problem is who will be the blue eye boy? Hamilton or leclerc?
I'm pretty sure his move to Ferrari was also influenced by his friendship with Niki Lauda.
😂😂😂 Niki would’ve told him, “Stay the hell away from Ferrari.” - Lauda left Ferrari because of the politics, and despite being a double world champion for them, they started giving preferential treatment to Carlos Reutemann (a rookie) AND they basically were trying to treat their two car team like a three car team AND they really alienated Lauda when they dropped his friend Clay Regazzoni from the team.
Everyone here can agree on one thing, it is Ferrari.
And Diversity worked so well at Merc in the recent past. Nothing like hiring the best person for the job.
Why not milking your end career when your washed up 🤷
Surely there has to be something else big happening Hamilton knows about that made him switch! I wonder if we will hear about big signings on the personnel side that will make his move to Ferrari look even better! Be interesting to watch what happens with this story before his switch in 2025!
He could have seen 2026 engine development and realized a comparison with Merc’s engine progress back in 2012.
@@EMichaelBall yea that’s definitely possible as well. Be interesting to see what comes out before 2025
I think there will be some stunning moves to Ferrari with LH.
Ferrari made Schumacher an Fxx. Did Hamilton get his AMG GT? Bet you hes getting an "XX" now
Something tells me Ferrari wants some inside in how Mercedes work that’s all.
Vettel was right. 😅 everyone is a ferrari fan even the mercedes staff secretly is ferrari fans
As the footbolers always liked ferrari since child..😂
So he wants to ruin ferrari now?
I think we all knew that this will happen sooner or later, if Mercedes will stop building championship winning cars. Ferrari desperately need to win a championship, and Lewis as well. And if Ferrari have time, Lewis don’t. Plus it’s a legendary team. Plus a lot of money. So it’s only logical that he made this move. Bravo 👏🏻
Lets look at it different, Lots of money, lots of money, heratige brand, PR stunt, and thats it. Hamilton will not win anything with Ferrari as they see there nr1 driver beeing Leclere. its just One brand that gets max out of the PR team and the driver gets a serious pay salary.
@@Timberjagiexpensive stunt.
@@nigelkelley3004 well Ferrari can make it back easy as it will attract certain customers and sponsors
@@Timberjagiyes I suppose it does. However, I would have thought Mercedes would know the value of that and be in a better position to realise it given his history with them. That Mercedes didn’t agree to his demands suggests they didn’t think the returns were there.
Also two merc engineers moving
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100m it's 100m.
Mercedes wouldn't have deserved another contract with Lewis to be honest, he wasted way too much of his prime time in Mercedes just for them to do something they shouldn't have done.
They gifted him the best car , so less drama . He ran from mclaren when they couldnt give him the best car, and now runs from Mercedes. Always going for the very easy mode.😂
He'll probably want the Ferrari painted black.
(1) A faster car than everyone else. 👍
I would need a source on that. Winter testing results don't count.
Hire the best people for the job!
Maybe just drive, ya sausage 🤦🏻♂️
Watch him rage quit 😂 2 years no wins, this year I’m giessing no wins! Fez you are going to waste good money on a drama diva that just can’t compete anymore 😂 🤡
He has two victories this year now :D
Yeah, it has nothing to do with 100 milions of $ a year...
A) it’s not quite that much
B) in 2012, people thought he was going to Mercedes for the money
He just wanted a slot for Ferrari latest Hypercar and he didn't want to buy form 2nd hand flipper
HAHAHAHA. He’s gonna try to bring diversity to Italians. This is gonna be hilarious. That might just become the end of that BS.
Tony Soprano and Noah chat flashes
I want diversity not the best engineers 😂😂
"Plenty more" >> narrator and entire channel proceeded to reveal they didn't really have anything to say other than pure BS
He realized that he was becoming irrelevant and this was his last gasp at being in the spotlight, it’s not going to be pretty, yeah he got paid but this is a train wreck waiting to happen.
And there I was thinking the priority would be racing the car, but no, apparently diversity is what a F1 team should be all about. Counting women, skin-color and sexual preferences is much more interesting then car racing.
F1 is a soap opera for men. And some women.
Breaking news White boy is mad black ppl are better in every way and Asians a significantly smarter 😢
1 reason: Because he cant enjoy engine benefit in Mercedes anymore. Seeing how he trash McLaren after join Mercedes 2013 i expect he didnt change with recent comment on Mercedes engineering was wrong and he is right 😉
When did he trash McLaren? The car in 2011 and 2012 just wasn't good enough and Mercedes offered to fulfill his potential.
And now not performing. 😢 sad for a guy who talks like he is a good person.
He spearheaded diversity issues at Mercedes and they have gone backwards ever since. What does that tell you
Apparently he’s going to Ferrari as they supply tampons free of charge.
Damn used all of your 4 braincells to come up with that one didnt ya. Super creative👏
@@themonkey8251 It was hilarious and more creative than your response, so there's that.....
@@TheSlowoldman I mean only when you have the humor of an 8 year old, which you proved you have since you found it so hilarious. And creative? Literally every hamilton haters first criticism is "oh haha look hes such a feminine diva". Not really creative when its been done a thousand times before
If it stops you dripping nobody
It's interesting that he loves Ferrari that much for so long. After all, he raced for the Ferrari's old enemy(McLaren), and ever since Nico left, Ferrari were the main competetor to Mercedes till 2020. I guess "Everyone is a Ferrari fan" after all.
Mercedes car still bouncing ... all the way to Ferrari
oh yeah lets put black people in one of the most iconic Italian racing teams
Why not? I don’t see a problem with that.
The only thing he’s interested in is the Pension scheme of $484m. He won’t develop the car and he also won’t get very far with his diversity PR work.
Diversity in auto racing means hiring people wether there passionate about the sport or not
As Alonso said, "Ferarri wasn't his dream yesterday."
Alonso sounds kinda salty
Hamilton has never said Ferrari wasn’t his dream though
Salty Alonso, quite the team hopper himself.
You could also take it to mean, it wasn't something that Lewis randomly decided to do in haste. I'm not defending Alonso here, but giving another perspective.
The same Alonso who fixed a race and lied and said he knew nothing, the same Alonso who had Ferrari intel in his emails while at McLaren in spygate, and tried to blackmail his own team.
Diversity initiatives 😂😂😂 that crymilton💀💀😂
Diversity is a bad idea. That's what killed Mercedes AMG F1 team.
Never hire on skin colour. Hire on competency to do the job!!
He likes losing
Well he's in mercedes rn so
alonso failed vettel failed why not also hamilton
For sure he can easily fail. Names you are listed are a good istance. But…😏
Is it just me or is this channel posting a lot about only Lewis hamilton,mercedes and the British drivers as well
A look back at their video and shorts feed proves that it'just s you.
@@TheGravyMonster wait till max starts dominating, the allegations and conspiracies will start
@@vi14753 sounds like you're inventing your own nonsense to get outraged about
@@TheGravyMonster bro it's jus my opinion
Lately I've seen a lot of mercedes videos
LH has spent all his younger years bigging up Senna at McLaren and Mercedes and rarely ever spoke about Michael. Don’t buy this bollocks from LH now. This is about contract duration and money, pure and simple. He knows he’s not winning at Mercedes Benz AMG Petronas until Red Bull falls off a cliff so he knows he’s done until the new regs at least now.
Indeed. If you watch the early footage of him in F1 it was always references to Senna (hence the yellow helmet design) and I remember him saying he always used to play as Raikkonen in a McLaren whilst playing the old F1 video games. I don't remember Ferrari being mentioned at all.
@@mr8I7 Exactly. If anything he was a McLaren fanboy. He kept away from Ferrari on virtually every occasion. He doesn’t even like Schumacher being a Brit. This kinda of bullshit sucking up is why LH is unpopular. People don’t like political favouritism bullshit as an attempt to be authentic. Least with some other drivers, they say it straight and get on with things, whether you like em or not.
...............do you even understand what you are reading?
Lewis is probably sick of Toto Wolff 🤣
Just about the money…..nothing more. The Mercedes episode in the years DtS is pretty embarrassing. Toto got totally blindsided by this move and all the crap about how ‘special’ their relationship is was cringeworthy to watch. Hamilton himself is a hypocrite. Trying to sell the world how much he’s a Mercedes driver for life🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hamilton is a fantastic driver. Top three all time I would suggest. Why not just be straightforward and tell the truth. The money. Stop trying to make me believe this childhood dream of driving for Ferrari. He had just put pen to paper 3-4 months earlier with Mercedes. So again, it’s all bullshit.
Agaon with the money? yeah again with the money. He wants a big check to retire.
It’s not even a bomb shell decision. He couldn’t win without the balls out fastest car. He knows Mercedes won’t get back there before he retires, so he took gamble with Ferrari. You can say redbull last season was dominate but max won with a slower car and checo proved it takes a special talent to make the redbull dominate. The Mercedes was so good everyone could win with it.
Feels like a "LeBron " move
Still got a ring
He doesn’t seem to mind that for every ‘diversity hire’ someone that’s fully deserving is going to have to be removed from his/her position.
Does that not upset him?
Of course not, he only cares about the colour of the person in the position.
Also most likely why his Mercedes team took a downward curve after his diversity calls.
Want a good position in life? Go work hard, and climb the ladder.
What are you withering on about?
@@thelegend5243 When “diversity” starts to look a lot like racism.
What a legend the GOAT 🐐!! Yes Sir!! All the best Lewis & Ferrari!
You wrote wrong that MERCEDES MOTORS are goat😂
the Tifosi no vogliono lui in FERRARI is FINITO FINICH stay in mercedes you will ruin the Ferrari team and Leclerc much better then him
Leclerc can prove that on the track. It will be fun to watch. None of this would happen if we didn't watch it - that is where the money comes from.