Hamilton to join Ferrari from 2025

Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes and join Ferrari from the 2025 Formula 1 season, Sky-Sports News reported yesterday.

Hamilton’s current contract with Mercedes is due to expire next year but he will depart the team after this season and replace Carlos Sainz at Ferrari. The seven-time world champion is the most successful driver in F1 history with 103 wins and 104 pole positions. Hamilton, who has not won a race since December 2021, won his first title with McLaren in 2008 and last drove a McLaren car, in Malta, in December 2012 before he joined Mercedes in 2013, winning another six titles. Ferrari have now won an F1 drivers’ championship since Kimi Raikkonen in 2007, a year before Hamilton’s first.

Hamilton was linked to Ferrari for this year but signed a new two-year contract last summer, along with Mercedes team-mate George Russell, to stay until the end of 2025. — TimesofMalta.