Ex-Ferrari racer Mika Salo feels there’s extra behind Lewis Hamilton‘s shocking change from Mercedes to Ferrari for 2025.
Hamilton, 39, used a particular possibility to depart his contemporary 2-year deal and stunned his boss, Toto Wolff, with information of adjusting groups.
Salo, from Finland, who had his surprising begin with Ferrari in 1999 after Michael Schumacher’s harm, thinks there are huge particulars in regards to the transfer that haven’t been shared but.
“I consider Hamilton is aware of one thing that the remainder of us don’t but know,” he advised Iltalehti newspaper.
“Whether or not it’s associated to the event of Ferrari’s automobile or the employees of the group, it’s troublesome to say. Nonetheless, there should be a motive why he made the choice to maneuver. In gentle of the present energy stability in F1, it might in any other case make no sense.”
Seven time world champion Hamilton argues merely that it’s all the time been his “childhood dream” to race in purple – however 57-year-old Salo suspects that extra bombshell information may nonetheless be brewing.
“It’s arduous to evaluate how a lot Hamilton’s arrival will influence Ferrari,” he mentioned. “Success includes so many different necessities than the driving force.
“There are quite a lot of query marks in Crimson Bull’s state of affairs in the intervening time, for instance, and there’s no different automobile designer like Adrian Newey. If Ferrari might signal him too, I feel they might have a successful group once more.”
Salo drove briefly for Ferrari within the heady Schumacher days, however he says he was by no means fazed by the particular stress of representing the fabled model.
“In my case, the media, followers and all the opposite commotion didn’t trouble me,” he smiled. “A minimum of at the moment, it was nicely taken care of there that the drivers deal with driving, and the remainder of the folks care for all the pieces else like media relations.”
