• mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    I’m happy for him, he’s clearly banging his head at Mercedes. But I do wonder what he hopes to achieve where Alonso, Vettel, and all the other drivers since Kimi failed? Lewis definitely has it in him… Ferrari, I’m not so sure.

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      5 months ago

      I really don’t know whether this is a:

      • Mercedes is going nowhere so I’m just going to throw shit at the wall and see what happens

      • Nobody other than RB is winning until regulation changes, and by that point I’ll be too old anyway. My new challenge will be trying to push Ferrari into being a competent team

      • I’m going to retire soon and I’ll kick myself if I don’t drive for Ferrari at least once in my career, they’re a historic team

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        Both Hamilton and his father have mentioned in the past that they’d like him to drive for Ferrari before retiring. I can imagine that this is what they’re doing since Mercedes have lost many leading people in recent years.

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          Yeah I do remember Ham saying multiple times that driving for Ferrari would be great, but I never took it seriously and always interpreted it as a salary negotiation tactic with Mercedes. Guess he was serious after all.

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      The guy is a seven times world champ and leads in victories and poles by quite a margin, he doesn’t have much more to prove honestly. Hell winning in a Ferrari is probably the only thing that he could do to cement his legacy.