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Lewis Hamilton’s days at Mercedes may be soon coming to an end.
Multiple reports out of Europe today say that the seven-time F1 champion Hamilton is expecting to announce that he’s leaving Mercedes after the 2024 season and will be joining Ferrari.
Hamilton, 39, is under contract with Mercedes for 2024 and 2025. Apparently the 2025 deal has an option that would allow Hamilton to move on and wear Ferrari red as early as the 2025 season.
Hamilton, who has driven for Mercedes since 2013, is Formula 1’s all-time leader with 103 wins, and his seven championships are tied with former Ferrari ace Michael Schumacher. His most recent championship came in 2020. He finished third in the F1 Drivers’ Championship standings in 2023 behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.
Ferrari drivers for 2024 are Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. Sainz is under contract through 2024, and Hamilton’s move, should it happen, would set up a Leclerc-Hamilton pairing for 2025.
Mike Pryson covered auto racing for the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot and MLive Media Group from 1991 until joining Autoweek in 2011. He won several Michigan Associated Press and national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for auto racing coverage and was named the 2000 Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club’s Michigan Motorsports Writer of the Year. A Michigan native, Mike spent three years after college working in southwest Florida before realizing that the land of Disney and endless summer was no match for the challenge of freezing rain, potholes and long, cold winters in the Motor City.
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